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CHANNEL TELEVISION AT 60 • The closest we got to local community TV
Down-Channel economics
CHANNEL TELEVISION AT 60 • In 1970, the Daily Telegraph asks if Channel Television can survive
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CHANNEL TELEVISION AT 60 • Channel Television starts the day in 1974... in black and white
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Radio Berlin International
What’s on and how to tune into East Germany’s international service in the 1960s
The Empire Short-Wave Service
The BBC’s chief engineer talks shortwave listeners through the best aerials and automatic volume controls for hearing the BBC Empire Service
The State Funeral of Sir Winston Churchill on the BBC
Behind the scenes photographs of the BBC’s biggest OB
Germany prepares for the Olympic Games
Germany is busy setting up telephone circuits and radio relays for their two Olympic Games
My Coronation Commentary
Richard Dimbleby explains his BBC Television Service commentary to the Sunday Dispatch in June 1953
Westminster Hall, 12 February 1952
Richard Dimbleby’s commentary on the Lying-in-State of King George VI in 1952
The New Pattern of Sound Broadcasting
After 10 years, the BBC’s radio networks have started to drift. Here’s how they’re going to be put back on track
The ITA so far
You probably can’t get the newly launched commercial television yet, but here’s how it works
How the new look will change ITV
The franchise results are in. What will this mean for ITV in the 1980s?
Decadent and trashy – Is this YOUR view of Riviera Police
There’s only one thing worse than the thighs and boobs in Rediffusion’s Riviera Police – and that’s when there aren’t any, writes Milton Shulman
The State Funeral of Sir Winston Churchill on Independent Television
A pictorial guide to the funeral of the former prime minister, from the people behind ‘Fusion’, the house magazine of Rediffusion London
Hail the B.B.C. – It’s the most prolific comedy factory in the world
Milton Shulman prefers BBC comedy to ITV comedy… sometimes
Some of the things Burke (of Burke’s Law) can teach Sherlock Holmes
Milton Shulman compares Sherlock Homes, Public Eye and Burke’s Law
Twenty Questions
Souvenir leaflet for a comedy panel game at the Dome in Brighton in 1961
London Calling… urgently
“Hello, Fenella? I shan’t be able to get back for dinner. A sort of war’s broken out.”
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