The BBC Television story
The BBC celebrates twenty years of television in 1956
Rediffusion printed archives
Printed and written archives from Associated-Rediffusion and Rediffusion London
Letters from broadcasters
Dear Television… Love, Transdiffusion. And their replies
Crossroads 3000
Your special souvenir website celebrating the Midlands soap opera
The ITV Story
A look back, from 1965, at the events of 1955
Letters from broadcasters
Dear Television… Love, Transdiffusion. And their replies
‘Fusion’ covers
The amazing art of Associated-Rediffusion and Rediffusion London’s staff magazine
Today’s TV magazine cover
TVTimes, Radio Times, Television Weekly, TVWorld… a different cover from a day in history
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
ITN
A gallery of all things Independent Television News
An ident a day
A gallery of television idents
News title cards
Screencaps and title cards from news programmes around the world
Testcards
When there’s nothing on television, there’s this
Crossroads 3000
Your special souvenir website celebrating the Midlands soap opera
The ITV Story
A look back, from 1965, at the events of 1955
AYTEEVEE
Behind the scenes at ATV
Highlights of 1966
Rediffusion, London picks the 12 best of their programmes from 1966
Rediffusion, London
Inside Associated-Rediffusion and Rediffusion, London, 1955-1968
Talk of THAMES
In-depth into Thames Television, London’s weekday ITV 1968-1992
Highlights of 1967
Rediffusion, London picks the best of their programmes from 1967
ITA Transmitters: 1969
Maps of the VHF coverage of the ITA’s transmitters and the proposed UHF service areas
Both sides of the camera
Inside ABC Weekend Television in Didsbury, Aston and Teddington in 1960
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
ABC at Large
ABC, your weekend TV in the north and midlands 1956-1968
The ITV 1963 Yearbook
The full ITV 1963 yearbook, with programmes, transmitters and companies explained
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
The BBC Television story
The BBC celebrates twenty years of television in 1956
Rediffusion ’64
All about the relaunch of Associated-Rediffusion as Rediffusion, London in April 1964
The Avengers
Steed, Dr Gale, Mrs Peel, Miss King, Purdey and Gambit – the TVTimes remembers The Avengers
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
ABC’s religious training scheme
Inside ABC Television’s 1959 training scheme for religious leaders who want to appear on ITV
Kenny Everett
The nation’s favourite radio and telly prankster remembered
Marconi Mobile Television
In city, town or country, Marconi Outside Broadcast equipment is the toast of 1954
TEMPO: the impact of television on the arts
Angus Wilson looks at how ABC Weekend TV’s ‘Tempo’ has influenced art and artists
Music in the night
Behind the scenes at Radio Luxembourg in 1965
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
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
The Border discovered
Facts and figures about the unusual Border Television region
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
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.
Harlech’s first year
Accepting the challenge: Harlech rate themselves after a year on air
Rediffusion’s studios
Television House and Wembley
TWW’s unique top floor
Inside TWW’s studios
ATV Centre
The Birmingham Post celebrates the opening of the new ATV Centre in 1970 with a special pull-out supplement
Granada TV, Manchester 3
Granada’s TV studios in Manchester, in depth
Alpha Studios, Birmingham
The home of ABC and ATV in the midlands in the 1950s and 60s
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
TWW/Teledu Cymru archives
Transdiffusion for researchers: source material for Television Wales and West and for Wales (West and North) Television
Satellite TV group
Memories of the channels and presentation of the channels on the Astra satellite family
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
Transdiffusion’s All Talk group
A place to talk about everything TV and radio related
STV group
A group to talk about Scottish Television
Adverts group
If you like a lot of chocolate on your biscuit join our group
ILR group
The group for fans of Independent Local Radio from 1973 until today
Television sport group
The Big Match, World of Sport, Scotsport, Sportsnight, Grandstand… the presentation of sport on TV is discussed here
TWW & Teledu Cymru group
Did you grow up in and around Wales in the 1960s? This group remembers TWW in the south and Teledu Cymru in the north and west
Anglia TV group
The knight and the flag: discuss Anglia Television here
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
BBCtv presentation group
Join us to talk about the look and feel of BBCtv presentation across the years
Irish broadcasting group
RTE, TV3, TnaG, UTV, there’s so much to talk about in this group devoted to television in Ireland
My 1960s group
If you remember it, you weren’t there. We beg to differ
Rediffusion group
Associated-Rediffusion and Rediffusion, London: the capital’s weekday choice from 1955 to 1968
BBC News group
Discuss the look of BBC TV News across the years
ABC Weekend TV group
Your weekend TV in the north and midlands 1956-1968: come remember the masters of ITV
Breakfast TV group
Breakfast Time, TV-am, GMTV, RI:SE… all of breakfast television is discussed in this group
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A selection from our video archives
SoundCloud
Our sound archive… well, about 2% of it (so far)
Selected images from the Transdiffusion archives
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
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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!
Zenith: 1964 – the year everything changed
Our guide to 1964: the year everything in British culture changed