From our archive

Slip covers of blank VHS videotapes

40 years ago…

The BBC tell staff where the money came from and went in 1959-60

40 years ago…

40 years ago…

…from Transdiffusion. Oh, and from BBC Scotland in 2000

The ghosts of Christmases past: 10 covers from Christmas editions of Fusion, the Rediffusion staff newsletter

A trade advertisement from ITV

Pre-launch print advertisements for S4C

HTV continues in English only

Souvenir leaflet for a comedy panel game at the Dome in Brighton in 1961

Stewart White brings Central Television on the air in 1982 for schools programmes

“Hello, Fenella? I shan’t be able to get back for dinner. A sort of war’s broken out.”

Capital Radio and 2CR advertise to you

BBC Radio Nottingham poster from 1968

A guide to Independent Local Radio in 1981

The Free Radio Association swings into action against Labour in 1970

A rough scan of the introductory booklet for the new BBC Four issued a few weeks before launch

A 1996 leaflet extolling the virtues of our BBC

Your cut-out n’ keep guide to tuning into the three BBC FM services – some now in stereo! – in the UK

A poster advertising BRMB Radio in Birmingham in the 1970s

A 1938 diagram of a television studio caught our eye…

Do S4C have a copy of their own opening night? Some suggest they don’t. We do.

On retransmission stations of the internet, this is the Transdiffusion Broadcasting System

On 22 September 1975, Eamonn Andrews on the Thames ‘Today’ programme hosts a bad-tempered debate about ITV

Music Through Midnight with David Hamilton sees the BBC Light Programme off into history

The final closedown, 29 September 1967

Radio Caroline chooses not to sink in the face of the Marine Offences Act

Wonderful Radio London – Big L – decides to call it a day

The last moments of off-shore station Radio 355

A demo package of jingles for Radio Forth, NorthSound and Moray Firth Radio from 1981

New local radio station CBC in Cardiff prepares to come on air in 1980

A documentary from 13 October 1982 discusses how S4C came to be

Ray Moore opens and closes the 1979 Eurovision Song Contest for BBC Radio 2

Alvar Lidell narrates the story of the establishment of the BBC Monitoring Service during World War II

Ludovic Kennedy on the botched launched of BBC-2

Jingles are not just for radio, as Tuesday Productions show in this 1980s sampler

41 years ago, Beacon Radio 303 comes on air for the first time

Ocean Sound looks back on the news from 1986

Listen to Radio 1 and Radio 2’s introductory programme from the evening of 30 September 1967

In 1981 this spin-off from Tomorrow’s World tries to divine which 12″ videodisc will win the battle

Bob Godfrey’s 1963 surreal mix of advertising tropes

John Walters goes to the National Museum of Photography, Film and Television in 1986

BBC Newsnight on the Peacock Report in 1986, which recommends ITV franchises go to the highest bidder and BBC Radios 1 and 2 are sold

Larry Grayson interviews Noele Gordon on ATV in 1972