News
Getting people and places together
25 January 2021
The trials and tribulations of getting the people to the places for Granada’s nightly magazine show
When Huw was told: ‘You looked just like a frightened rabbit’
11 January 2021
ITN’s house magazine The Lens looks back from 1983 at Huw Thomas’s on-air career
The irreverent young men of World in Action
5 February 2018
Inside Granada’s World in Action in 1967
Next up: 107 dogs, two cats – and other come-ons to keep you watching
11 September 2017
Is clickbait a new thing? Find out in this 1981 article
The Nation Decides
8 June 2017
TVTimes tells us what to expect from ITN’s coverage of the 1979 general election
First with the full story
9 February 2017
The editor of BBC-2’s ‘Newsroom’ announces its relaunch in the Radio Times in 1967
Meet the new man in the news
19 January 2017
The TVTimes introduces Gordon Honeycombe, a new ITN newsreader in 1965
Battle for News at Ten
19 December 2016
The chairman of the ITA details the fight to get ITN’s News at Ten to air on ITV
Twenty-Four Hours
29 September 2016
The Radio Times in 1966 spends an evening with the people behind BBC-1’s ’24 Hours’
About About Anglia
19 September 2016
In 1975, Anglia takes a peek behind the scenes of their local news magazine
Politics will soon come in out of the cold
6 June 2016
April 1976 and ITN finally gets the Westminster studio the correspondents have been wanting since 1955
Tomorrow’s News Tonight
11 February 2016
Introducing viewers in the North-East to their new news service in 1959
When news is a goldmine
25 June 2006
The media can rally a nation – but how far will they go for an exclusive?