In-depth

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

What are the people of Nazi Germany listening to in 1940?

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

Ice hockey on the radio propels Stewart MacPherson from the press office at the Wembley Pool into a career with the BBC