Studios
Caroline rises from a watery grave
17 February 2021
Is Radio Caroline coming back in 1970, in television form?
The ABC of TV
10 March 2020
From chromakey to cycloramas, the jargon of television production in 1975 is explained here
Birmingham’s local millstone
19 November 2018
Is Pebble Mill a white elephant? It has been, but that might be about to change says the Daily Telegraph in 1972
A day out to Quay Street
7 November 2017
From the North: Tom Hargreaves remembers a tour around Granada’s studios in 1967
Under construction
17 November 2016
The BBC Handbook for 1961 celebrates the opening of the first studio at Television Centre
Granada TV Chelsea
3 August 2015
Practical Television in 1958 looks at Granada’s branch studio in London
Westward progress
20 July 2015
Practical Television in March 1962 looks in-depth at Westward’s almost-complete studio complex
This is Elstree, part 1
4 October 2010
Roddy Buxton on the history and development of ATV’s Elstree studios
This is Elstree, part 2
4 October 2010
The second part of Roddy Buxton’s analysis sees ATV Network, ATV Midlands, Daybreak and Central at Elstree
A is for Alpha
15 August 2010
How a former ABC cinema in Aston, Birmingham, became a power house of ITV production.
A trip to Broad Street
1 March 2007
1997: time for a final trip around ATV Centre before all the gear is sold off.
Scotland’s Media Capital
30 October 2005
Glenn Aylett details Glasgow’s new and existing BBC and independent television production centres