Routine Sheets Database

Our database of daily presentation logs and camera scripts

Highlights of 1967

Rediffusion, London picks the best of their programmes from 1967

The Granada archive

A gallery of all things Granada

Other archives

Broadcasting not your thing? Visit Retropia, Transdiffusion’s huge archive of social history

Independent Local Radio

A gallery of sights and sounds from ILR

The Granada archive

A gallery of all things Granada

Independent Local Radio

A gallery of sights and sounds from ILR

Network USA

Printed advertisements for US television stations from the 1940s, 50s and 60s

Letters from broadcasters

Dear Television… Love, Transdiffusion. And their replies

‘Fusion’ covers

The amazing art of Associated-Rediffusion and Rediffusion London’s staff magazine

Testcards

When there’s nothing on television, there’s this

ITN

A gallery of all things Independent Television News

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

News title cards

Screencaps and title cards from news programmes around the world

Highlights of 1967

Rediffusion, London picks the best of their programmes from 1967

ITV-2

The Independent Television Authority’s in-depth plans for ITV-2 in 1971

Talk of THAMES

In-depth into Thames Television, London’s weekday ITV 1968-1992

AYTEEVEE

Behind the scenes at ATV

Who does what in ITV in 1973?

The Independent Broadcasting Authority explains who does what in ITV in this booklet from 1973

Highlights of 1966

Rediffusion, London picks the 12 best of their programmes from 1966

The ITV Story

A look back, from 1965, at the events of 1955

Crossroads 3000

Your special souvenir website celebrating the Midlands soap opera

Rediffusion, London

Inside Associated-Rediffusion and Rediffusion, London, 1955-1968

ABC at Large

ABC, your weekend TV in the north and midlands 1956-1968

ITV in 1959

The Independent Television Authority explains who does what in ITV in 1959

Both sides of the camera

Inside ABC Weekend Television in Didsbury, Aston and Teddington in 1960

The ITV 1963 Yearbook

The full ITV 1963 yearbook, with programmes, transmitters and companies explained

The ITA Audience in 1972

The facts and figures of who was watching ITV in 1972

ITA Transmitters: 1969

Maps of the VHF coverage of the ITA’s transmitters and the proposed UHF service areas

ABC’s religious training scheme

Inside ABC Television’s 1959 training scheme for religious leaders who want to appear on ITV

Rediffusion ’64

All about the relaunch of Associated-Rediffusion as Rediffusion, London in April 1964

10 years of Rediffusion for schools

Rediffusion looks back at its contribution to educational television

ITA Colour

Colour… UHF… 625… Duplication… What the viewer needs to know in 1969

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

Kenny Everett

The nation’s favourite radio and telly prankster remembered

The Avengers

Steed, Dr Gale, Mrs Peel, Miss King, Purdey and Gambit – the TVTimes remembers The Avengers

Thorn EMI Videodiscs

The future is here: Thorn EMI new Videodisc technology – VHD – explained

The BBC Television story

The BBC celebrates twenty years of television in 1956

Marconi Mobile Television

In city, town or country, Marconi Outside Broadcast equipment is the toast of 1954

Intertel

The International Television Federation of documentary makers, 1960-1968

Music in the night

Behind the scenes at Radio Luxembourg in 1965

Broadcasting in the West

From 1949, the BBC looks at how it serves its most diverse radio region – the West of England

Introducing Radio Caroline

The most famous ‘pirate’ radio station introduces itself in 1964

Inside Radio Luxembourg

The studios and transmitters of Radio Luxembourg in detail

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

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.

The Border discovered

Facts and figures about the unusual Border Television region

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

ATV Centre

The Birmingham Post celebrates the opening of the new ATV Centre in 1970 with a special pull-out supplement

Alpha Studios, Birmingham

The home of ABC and ATV in the midlands in the 1950s and 60s

Granada TV, Manchester 3

Granada’s TV studios in Manchester, in depth

Rediffusion’s studios

Television House and Wembley

Routine Sheets Database

Our database of daily presentation logs and camera scripts

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

Irish broadcasting group

RTE, TV3, TnaG, UTV, there’s so much to talk about in this group devoted to television in Ireland

Transdiffusion’s All Talk group

A place to talk about everything TV and radio related

Rediffusion group

Associated-Rediffusion and Rediffusion, London: the capital’s weekday choice from 1955 to 1968

HTV West group

Love HTV West? Remember the HTV General Service? Did you watch TWW on Channel 10? Have we got a group for you!

BBC News group

Discuss the look of BBC TV News across the years

Television sport group

The Big Match, World of Sport, Scotsport, Sportsnight, Grandstand… the presentation of sport on TV is discussed here

BBCtv presentation group

Join us to talk about the look and feel of BBCtv presentation across the years

ITV regional news group

About Anglia, Northern Life, ATV Today, Three after Six, Thames Today, Westward Diary… the place to remember your regional news programme

My 1960s group

If you remember it, you weren’t there. We beg to differ

Anglia TV group

The knight and the flag: discuss Anglia Television here

Television in Wales group

Did you grow up in and around Wales in the 1960s? This group remembers TWW, Teledu Cymru, HTV Cymru/Wales and BBC Wales

Satellite TV group

Memories of the channels and presentation of the channels on the Astra satellite family

Grampian TV group

From the very far north, here’s where you can remember Grampian

Breakfast TV group

Breakfast Time, TV-am, GMTV, RI:SE… all of breakfast television is discussed in this group

Channel TV group

The baby of the class: talk about Channel Television here

Channel 4 and S4C group

The much-anticipated Fourth UHF Channel(s) are discussed here

BBC radio history group

From 2LO to DAB, from the National Programme to Radio 1Xtra… come talk about BBC radio

Adverts group

If you like a lot of chocolate on your biscuit join our group

Instagram

Selected images from the Transdiffusion archives

Twitter

Follow us on Twitter!

SoundCloud

Our sound archive… well, about 2% of it (so far)

YouTube

A selection from our video archives

Facebook

Like us on Facebook!

Transdiffusion on Tumblr

A running log of all of our output, plus archive items of interest

Spotify playlist

Listen here to a selection of the best broadcasting tunes

Pinterest

A collection of interesting pictures from across Transdiffusion

Other archives

Broadcasting not your thing? Visit Retropia, Transdiffusion’s huge archive of social history

My 1960s

We grew up in the 1960s… and loved every minute of it!

transdiffusion.org

Our main website, packed to the gills with over 3,000 articles about every aspect of broadcasting history

Zenith: 1964 – the year everything changed

Our guide to 1964: the year everything in British culture changed