Today’s TV magazine cover
TVTimes, Radio Times, Television Weekly, TVWorld… a different cover from a day in history
Routine Sheets Database
Our database of daily presentation logs and camera scripts
ITA Transmitters: 1969
Maps of the VHF coverage of the ITA’s transmitters and the proposed UHF service areas
Music in the night
Behind the scenes at Radio Luxembourg in 1965
Letters from broadcasters
Dear Television… Love, Transdiffusion. And their replies
Today’s TV magazine cover
TVTimes, Radio Times, Television Weekly, TVWorld… a different cover from a day in history
Letters from broadcasters
Dear Television… Love, Transdiffusion. And their replies
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
ITN
A gallery of all things Independent Television News
Testcards
When there’s nothing on television, there’s this
ITA Transmitters: 1969
Maps of the VHF coverage of the ITA’s transmitters and the proposed UHF service areas
Highlights of 1967
Rediffusion, London picks the best of their programmes from 1967
AYTEEVEE
Behind the scenes at ATV
Both sides of the camera
Inside ABC Weekend Television in Didsbury, Aston and Teddington in 1960
Highlights of 1966
Rediffusion, London picks the 12 best of their programmes from 1966
Rediffusion, London
Inside Associated-Rediffusion and Rediffusion, London, 1955-1968
Intertel
The International Television Federation of documentary makers, 1960-1968
Thorn EMI Videodiscs
The future is here: Thorn EMI new Videodisc technology – VHD – explained
This is the EBU
Your guide to international broadcasting in Europe in 1962
ITA Colour
Colour… UHF… 625… Duplication… What the viewer needs to know in 1969
10 years of Rediffusion for schools
Rediffusion looks back at its contribution to educational television
Rediffusion ’64
All about the relaunch of Associated-Rediffusion as Rediffusion, London in April 1964
Music in the night
Behind the scenes at Radio Luxembourg in 1965
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
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
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
Harlech’s first year
Accepting the challenge: Harlech rate themselves after a year on air
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.
TWW’s unique top floor
Inside TWW’s studios
Granada TV, Manchester 3
Granada’s TV studios in Manchester, in depth
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
Rediffusion’s studios
Television House and Wembley
Routine Sheets Database
Our database of daily presentation logs and camera scripts
Rediffusion printed archives
Printed and written archives from Associated-Rediffusion and Rediffusion London
TWW/Teledu Cymru archives
Transdiffusion for researchers: source material for Television Wales and West and for Wales (West and North) Television
ITN group
Talking about the on-screen look and personalities of Independent Television News
Grampian TV group
From the very far north, here’s where you can remember Grampian
Satellite TV group
Memories of the channels and presentation of the channels on the Astra satellite family
Television sport group
The Big Match, World of Sport, Scotsport, Sportsnight, Grandstand… the presentation of sport on TV is discussed here
Channel TV group
The baby of the class: talk about Channel Television here
BBC radio history group
From 2LO to DAB, from the National Programme to Radio 1Xtra… come talk about BBC radio
SoundCloud
Our sound archive… well, about 2% of it (so far)
A collection of interesting pictures from across Transdiffusion
Spotify playlist
Listen here to a selection of the best broadcasting tunes
Selected images from the Transdiffusion archives
YouTube
A selection from our video archives
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Zenith: 1964 – the year everything changed
Our guide to 1964: the year everything in British culture changed
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My 1960s
We grew up in the 1960s… and loved every minute of it!