Articles by Eric Croston
The history of television
Published 3 November 2022
Examining Granada’s 13-part series looking at Television
The Authority’s Plans for Channel Four
Published 2 November 2022
Inside the 20-year battle for a fourth channel
New Initiatives on Channel 4
Published 2 November 2022
There’s always something new and different on Channel 4
Channel Four News
Published 2 November 2022
The country’s newest, and most innovative, news programme
Film on Four
Published 2 November 2022
Channel 4’s first two years have seen an explosion in British filmmaking
ILR Meeting the Challenge
Published 19 October 2022
Innovation comes from local radio – and vice versa
Electronic technology to serve the Grampian area
Published 5 October 2022
A tiny company serves the largest area thanks to modern technology
The Changing Face of Downing Street
Published 5 September 2022
Yorkshire Television peers through the revolving door of 10 Downing Street
Focus on a crisis
Published 2 May 2022
ITN is called into action when a siege at an embassy in London comes to a shocking end
Selection of ILR areas and companies
Published 25 April 2022
A second tranche of Independent Local Radio stations could soon be approved by the government. How will they be chosen?
The Sporting Week – Behind the Scenes
Published 18 April 2022
World of Sport airs every Saturday on ITV – but work on the programme begins on Tuesday
Focus on Cardiff
Published 6 December 2021
The second phase of ILR begins as CBC comes on air in Cardiff
The birth of a channel
Published 2 August 2021
The first brand new national TV channel in almost 20 years has arrived
ITV’s Regional Strength
Published 9 October 2020
What makes ITV worth watching is regional programmes from your local station, says the IBA in 1976
Technical operations: the ITV network
Published 14 August 2020
The not-so-simple process of getting the output of the cameras to your TV screen in 1967
Television’s most famous street
Published 10 August 2020
A trip behind the scenes of the frantic treadmill involved in producing two episodes a week of ‘Coronation Street’ in 1979
Building for Channel 4
Published 29 July 2020
A gallery of photos from the construction of the Beacon Hill Channel 4 extension in the early 1980s
The ABC of TV
Published 10 March 2020
From chromakey to cycloramas, the jargon of television production in 1975 is explained here
The Sound of ILR
Published 1 October 2018
Some technical details of how Independent Local Radio sounds so different in 1977
Waking up to Television
Published 7 June 2018
Looking forward to the arrival of TV-am, later in 1983
A Solid Step Forward
Published 12 March 2018
A look at how IBA transmitters were going solid-state in 1975
Light Entertainment 1970
Published 5 September 2017
A look back at your favourite ITV light entertainment shows from 1970
So you want an ILR station?
Published 7 August 2017
How can you get the IBA to build you an ILR station in 1979?