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A new taller mast at Emley Moor was too little too late.

Geoff Nash takes out the trash

Interviewer, presenter and journalist Michael Parkinson has died

It’s all relative when it comes to the value of an ITV contract

Thames: a talent for television we still miss

Flashback to a time when flashbacks made sense

As demand for more and more content grows, archive TV is getting harder to find

The much-loved announcer and newsreader has died aged 94

A lack of training is leading to a lack of production quality, says W. Stephen Gilbert

A scandal at Channel 4: decades of programmes lost, forgotten, trapped in rights hell… and nobody cares

A brilliant composer, particularly of TV music, has died.

Charles Foster of Granada has died

An article from 1982 about World of Sport, as presented by the late Dickie Davies

Geoff Nash tries to explain 2023’s TV technology to a 1936 viewer

You’re not forced to watch BBC Three. But its existence is vital

Two years when everything changed: not least, the pictures got smaller

So, farewell then, people stood about

Happy birthday to the UK’s 5th channel

Actor Jo Kendall has died

The TV licence is back in the news

A thought to be lost early Channel 4 comedy on DVD? Yes please!

The diamond jubilee of the station from the very north

Production values have changed… for the better?

The Cardiff Singer of the World competition is something only our BBC could do

Gerry Marsden has died at 78

A reminder of those we’ve loved and lost this past year

Vale to the designer’s designer

Tom Scott on title sequences

Tyne Tees announcer dies at 89

Across the Waves: From Radio Caroline to Classic FM, by Nick Bailey

A fascinating video from Tom Scott

On this day in 1946, BBC radio began serialising one of the most devastating essays ever written

Network Distributing launch their streaming service with three nights of ABC Weekend TV

It’s as easy as ABC

Six more articles to read to keep your mind alert during the lockdown

Think you know all about the “swirly” BBC-1 globe? Wrong.

Six articles to read to keep your mind alert during the lockdown

Some fun backdrops for your online Zoom/Skype/Hangouts/Teams meetings

Gary Rodger tells us what to see and hear where on Thursday 12 December 2019 (and the day after)

A personal retrospective of Ireland’s greatest broadcaster

Official trailer – with (spoilers) Data and Seven of Nine – shown at the San Diego Comic-Con tonight

More people chose to watch ITN’s coverage of the moon landings than the BBC’s.

A decision has been made that makes Independent Local Radio less independent, less local and less good radio, says David Heathcote

A new resource from Transdiffusion… but what now?

A new website goes in depth into the 1990s television comic ‘Zzzap!’