History

Disaster strikes television development as the Crystal Palace burns down

ATV comes to the Midlands in 1956, with the Birmingham Post waiting to welcome them

In a wrenching break with the established order of things, the TVTimes in 1956 asks what women really want from television. Don’t worry, though: nobody listened

The BBC Handbook for 1938 looks back at the first year of television

The people behind the Pilkington Report

The BBC’s senior superintendent engineer gives us a peek into the future of TV: pay-per-view… in 1954

The struggles – at company level, in the studios and with politicians – as ATV became Central

A look at ATV Midlands in the early 1960s

The 75th Anniversary of the launch of the BBC Television Service from Alexandra Palace was commemorated by a small party at AP on Wednesday 2 November, 2011. Richard Elen was there to describe the scene.

From the late 80s to the present

The OU and beyond

The history of educational TV

The beginning of ITV – in sound & vision

One of the most radical changes to hit the ITV network

Sky was not the first…

From the early days of ITV & C4

More classic ads

More classic ads

1946: The BBC Television Service re-opens.

Confusion surrounding TV aspect ratios has all happened before…

Younger television viewers of the early 1950s had their very own startup

Exploding the myth of TV’s 1939 closedown

Video recording is not new. In fact it goes back a very long way.

What was it like to buy a TV over 50 years ago?

The politics behind television’s post-war return

The forgotten ATV

Abram Games creates the first animated TV identity

1946 – and BBC Television makes plans after the war

Take a tour of Alexandra Palace

The BBC Television Service opens – twice

Thanks to John Logie Baird, ITV nearly arrived 50 years early

The BBC embraces television – and a new service is born

JLB pioneers television – but John Reith needs convincing