ITN
A gallery of all things Independent Television News
Spotify playlist
Listen here to a selection of the best broadcasting tunes
ITA Transmitters: 1969
Maps of the VHF coverage of the ITA’s transmitters and the proposed UHF service areas
Zenith: 1964 – the year everything changed
Our guide to 1964: the year everything in British culture changed
The ITA Audience in 1972
The facts and figures of who was watching ITV in 1972
ITN
A gallery of all things Independent Television News
Independent Local Radio
A gallery of sights and sounds from ILR
‘Fusion’ covers
The amazing art of Associated-Rediffusion and Rediffusion London’s staff magazine
The Granada archive
A gallery of all things Granada
Today’s TV magazine cover
TVTimes, Radio Times, Television Weekly, TVWorld… a different cover from a day in history
An ident a day
A gallery of television idents
ITA Transmitters: 1969
Maps of the VHF coverage of the ITA’s transmitters and the proposed UHF service areas
The ITA Audience in 1972
The facts and figures of who was watching ITV in 1972
Who does what in ITV in 1973?
The Independent Broadcasting Authority explains who does what in ITV in this booklet from 1973
ITV in 1959
The Independent Television Authority explains who does what in ITV in 1959
ITV-2
The Independent Television Authority’s in-depth plans for ITV-2 in 1971
Highlights of 1967
Rediffusion, London picks the best of their programmes from 1967
The Avengers
Steed, Dr Gale, Mrs Peel, Miss King, Purdey and Gambit – the TVTimes remembers The Avengers
This is the EBU
Your guide to international broadcasting in Europe in 1962
TEMPO: the impact of television on the arts
Angus Wilson looks at how ABC Weekend TV’s ‘Tempo’ has influenced art and artists
Rediffusion ’64
All about the relaunch of Associated-Rediffusion as Rediffusion, London in April 1964
ABC’s religious training scheme
Inside ABC Television’s 1959 training scheme for religious leaders who want to appear on ITV
Marconi Mobile Television
In city, town or country, Marconi Outside Broadcast equipment is the toast of 1954
Music in the night
Behind the scenes at Radio Luxembourg in 1965
Hints on receiving BBC radio in 1951
BBC Engineering tells you how to get the best from your radio when you listen to the Home Service, the Light Programme and the Third Programme
Inside Radio Luxembourg
The studios and transmitters of Radio Luxembourg in detail
Introducing Radio Caroline
The most famous ‘pirate’ radio station introduces itself in 1964
Broadcasting in the West
From 1949, the BBC looks at how it serves its most diverse radio region – the West of England
Harlech’s first year
Accepting the challenge: Harlech rate themselves after a year on air
Southern Success
Southern Television is about to expand into the south-east and explains to viewers and advertisers who they are and what they do
The Border discovered
Facts and figures about the unusual Border Television region
Teledu yng ngwlad y gȃn
TWW celebrates its contribution to Welsh culture in this bilingual website. Mae TWW yn dathlu ei gyfraniad i ddiwylliant Cymru yn y wefan ddwyieithog hon.
ATV Centre
The Birmingham Post celebrates the opening of the new ATV Centre in 1970 with a special pull-out supplement
TWW’s unique top floor
Inside TWW’s studios
Alpha Studios, Birmingham
The home of ABC and ATV in the midlands in the 1950s and 60s
Rediffusion’s studios
Television House and Wembley
Granada TV, Manchester 3
Granada’s TV studios in Manchester, in depth
TWW/Teledu Cymru archives
Transdiffusion for researchers: source material for Television Wales and West and for Wales (West and North) Television
Rediffusion printed archives
Printed and written archives from Associated-Rediffusion and Rediffusion London
Routine Sheets Database
Our database of daily presentation logs and camera scripts
Transdiffusion’s All Talk group
A place to talk about everything TV and radio related
Grampian TV group
From the very far north, here’s where you can remember Grampian
BBC News group
Discuss the look of BBC TV News across the years
ITN group
Talking about the on-screen look and personalities of Independent Television News
BBC radio history group
From 2LO to DAB, from the National Programme to Radio 1Xtra… come talk about BBC radio
World TV presentation group
RTF, ARD, NOS, TVE, RAI… the group for discussion of all things international
Spotify playlist
Listen here to a selection of the best broadcasting tunes
Transdiffusion on Tumblr
A running log of all of our output, plus archive items of interest
Like us on Facebook!
YouTube
A selection from our video archives
SoundCloud
Our sound archive… well, about 2% of it (so far)
Selected images from the Transdiffusion archives
Zenith: 1964 – the year everything changed
Our guide to 1964: the year everything in British culture changed
Other archives
Broadcasting not your thing? Visit Retropia, Transdiffusion’s huge archive of social history
transdiffusion.org
Our main website, packed to the gills with over 3,000 articles about every aspect of broadcasting history
My 1960s
We grew up in the 1960s… and loved every minute of it!