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
20 May 2022
Lord Hill is suddenly moved from the ITA to the BBC – to the horror of the staff at Broadcasting House
6 May 2022
Looking back at the first ten years of technical developments at the BBC
4 March 2022
Photographs and short biographies of fifty BBC announcers and news-readers
18 February 2022
Welcome to the future and your new ONdigital digibox
4 February 2022
A personal recollection of organising a most ambitious television link-up
21 January 2022
Television comes to the Midlands in 1949 and here’s all you need to know about the new Sutton Coldfield transmitter
10 December 2021
The BBC’s Civil Engineer describes how the new Television Centre in London’s Shepherd’s Bush will look
26 November 2021
Behind the scenes as the news gets to Television House and from there to your home
12 November 2021
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
2 November 2021
Leslie Mitchell remembers the run-up to the launch of the BBC Television Service
15 October 2021
The new ITV contracts are announced, to mixed reviews from the Daily Mirror
22 September 2021
Behind the scenes of that new ‘Independent Television’ you’ve heard so much about
3 September 2021
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
6 August 2021
The BBC looks back at a momentous year for technology and broadcasting
23 July 2021
Granada’s World in Action looks at the victims of the off-shore radio boom: the recording artists who drove it
9 July 2021
The BBC takes a rather sniffy view of developments in radio in the United States
14 May 2021
Grampian is almost here! Find out how to tune in, what to watch and who’s behind the new programmes
2 April 2021
The man who invented radio and television journalism as we know it
5 March 2021
It’s 1960 and Granada and ABC look back at the last 4 years on air and what’s coming for ITV
19 February 2021
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
29 January 2021
A detailed, technical exploration of the Telstar satellite from 1962
23 December 2020
A look at how television facilities have developed across Europe in 1967
18 December 2020
The last-ditch effort to prevent commercial television from being born
20 November 2020
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
2 November 2020
A local newspaper celebrates 25 years of BBCtv in 1961
23 October 2020
300 possible applicants for the 1968 ITV contracts… and the Midlands is the one they all want
9 October 2020
What makes ITV worth watching is regional programmes from your local station, says the IBA in 1976
25 September 2020
The BBC brings us up to speed on recent developments in television in 1961
11 September 2020
Travel back to 1956 as the BBC celebrates 20 years of television
28 August 2020
A glowing biography – nearer a hagiography – of General David Sarnoff, published in 1966 to celebrate 40 years of NBC
14 August 2020
The not-so-simple process of getting the output of the cameras to your TV screen in 1967
31 July 2020
Television is coming soon and, the Nottingham Journal decides, the Baird system is the one to bet on
20 March 2020
Pete Singleton travels back to 1958 to find out what was making waves in television
29 November 2019
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
27 December 2018
Scottish television director Haldane Duncan’s autobiography
22 November 2018
How the four American networks – ABC, CBS, Mutual and NBC – covered the assassination of President Kennedy
4 June 2018
Lord Hill of Luton on ending the Toddlers’ Truce and handing £750,000 to ITV