In-depth

1928-2017

Exploring the BBC in 1938

TBS editor David Heathcote tells the story of his life in and out of broadcasting

The story of the BBC at war

Granada's first year

1940-2018

Baird's wife recalls life with her husband

1935-2009

A history of the BBC from 1930

The the first Director-General of the Independent Television Authority on how to make television special

ITV in the North East: 1959-2002

The future is here: television across the Atlantic thanks to a satellite

The BBC’s Civil Engineer describes how the new Television Centre in London’s Shepherd’s Bush will look

Behind the scenes as the news gets to Television House and from there to your home

Ray Moore gets a job at Granada, and at Tyne Tees, parlays that into a job at ATV and then makes the jump to the BBC

Leslie Mitchell remembers the run-up to the launch of the BBC Television Service

The new ITV contracts are announced, to mixed reviews from the Daily Mirror

How to get your allies to listen to you

Behind the scenes of that new ‘Independent Television’ you’ve heard so much about

Unusual audience research as the BBC goes direct to the forces in France to ask them what they’d like to hear on the radio

It’s (almost) here! Get ready for the launch of BBC-2

The BBC looks back at a momentous year for technology and broadcasting

Granada’s World in Action looks at the victims of the off-shore radio boom: the recording artists who drove it

The BBC takes a rather sniffy view of developments in radio in the United States

Grampian is almost here! Find out how to tune in, what to watch and who’s behind the new programmes

The man who invented radio and television journalism as we know it

It’s 1960 and Granada and ABC look back at the last 4 years on air and what’s coming for ITV

An upgrade from 405-lines to 625-lines is not enough on its own to get people to buy or rent new sets, says the BBC’s DC Birkinshaw in 1959

A detailed, technical exploration of the Telstar satellite from 1962

It’s launch day for TWW in 1958

A look at how television facilities have developed across Europe in 1967

The last-ditch effort to prevent commercial television from being born

Inside Granada’s greatest regional programme, Scene at 6.30

Televisions are getting larger (24 inches!) while their cases get smaller; aerials are getting more sophisticated; transportable TV sets are here… it’s all go at the 1958 National Radio Show

A local newspaper celebrates 25 years of BBCtv in 1961

300 possible applicants for the 1968 ITV contracts… and the Midlands is the one they all want

What makes ITV worth watching is regional programmes from your local station, says the IBA in 1976

The BBC brings us up to speed on recent developments in television in 1961

Travel back to 1956 as the BBC celebrates 20 years of television

A glowing biography – nearer a hagiography – of General David Sarnoff, published in 1966 to celebrate 40 years of NBC

A 1955 opportunity to sneer at American television

The not-so-simple process of getting the output of the cameras to your TV screen in 1967

Television is coming soon and, the Nottingham Journal decides, the Baird system is the one to bet on

Pete Singleton travels back to 1958 to find out what was making waves in television

Over on our Thames Television sub-site, Gary Rodger takes us on a journey to Thames in 1984 as the management put out an emergency service when the staff go on strike

Scottish television director Haldane Duncan’s autobiography

How the four American networks – ABC, CBS, Mutual and NBC – covered the assassination of President Kennedy

Lord Hill of Luton on ending the Toddlers’ Truce and handing £750,000 to ITV