16 September 2020
Disaster strikes television development as the Crystal Palace burns down
22 July 2019
ATV comes to the Midlands in 1956, with the Birmingham Post waiting to welcome them
16 April 2018
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
2 November 2016
The BBC Handbook for 1938 looks back at the first year of television
6 July 2015
The BBC’s senior superintendent engineer gives us a peek into the future of TV: pay-per-view… in 1954
13 April 2015
The struggles – at company level, in the studios and with politicians – as ATV became Central
9 November 2011
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.
1 March 2006
Younger television viewers of the early 1950s had their very own startup
5 April 2003
Thanks to John Logie Baird, ITV nearly arrived 50 years early