Features

Anglia Television celebrates 21 years of technical excellence

Survival of the Finest

The producer of Anglia's 'Survival' strand considers the craft of natural history programme-making

Five plays from Anglia

Success on the network for Anglia's line of single dramas

You name it – they’ll show it

A new focus for About Anglia

Latest

Late move for ‘pop’ transmitter in Midlands

Legal pop radio is coming, and this time the Midlands won’t miss out

Local radio plans get a mixed reception

After Pilkington, it’s time to reform broadcasting again, this time with BBC local radio stations — eight for the west Midlands alone

People behind the programmes

Rediffusion people, as photographed by Fred Bonfield in the 1960s

Stuart Hood looks at America

Rediffusion’s controller of programmes heads to the States to see what network television is up to

Can Independent Television Stimulate Earning?

Will the arrival of commercial television give a boost to the economy?

New channels of choice

Just one more push and cable television will catch on, says the president of the Cable Television Association of Great Britain

Norway must wait four years for television

Norway starts work on developing television… slowly and cautiously

Inside telecine

A look around the telecine technology at Rediffusion and ABC

The rise and fall of TVS

The franchise round results are in and it’s bad news for TVS

Alexandra Palace: Battle of the beams

When Ally Pally went dark in 1939, it still had an important use

Satellvision is coming

Rediffusion’s assistant controller of programmes (engineering) looks at the technical issues of television by satellite

Calling All Nations VI: Some technical and practical points

A guide to how the BBC’s signals get from the UK to the world, for the layman and censored for the enemy

BBC-2 UHF in late 1968

A snapshot of the (slow) growth of BBC-2 coverage

ITA transmitters – Yorkshire

A map of the UHF transmitter network plans in 1969

ITA transmitters – Wales and West of England

A map of the UHF transmitter network plans in 1969

ITA transmitters – South-West England

A map of the UHF transmitter network plans in 1969

ITA transmitters – South of England

A map of the UHF transmitter network plans in 1969

ITA transmitters – Northern Ireland

A map of the UHF transmitter network plans in 1969

Bottled snakes and docile crocs

Rediffusion sets off to explore Australia

Propping up the Programmes

Inside the props department at Associated-Rediffusion

12 years in Brum

As ABC leaves Alpha in 1968, the general manager looks back…

the prop of props

Meet George Hyam, the propmaster at Wembley

A pictorial look back over the past twelve years…

As ABC Weekend draws to a close, the staff magazine looks back at 12 amazing years of programmes

The ABC of THAMES

As ABC draws to a close in 1968, MD Howard Thomas looks to the future

Sailing bye…

A long wave goodbye to the snap, crackle and pop of 198kHz

Mining the archive

Innovative uses for archive material and forgotten programme formats

Judith Chalmers 1935—2026

An interview with BBCtv continuity announcer Judith Chalmers in 1961, taken from our archives upon the announcement of her death at the age of 90

A member of the Transdiffusion Broadcasting System
Liverpool, Friday 11 September 2026