From our archive

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

From the late 1970s, BBC Radio 1’s ‘Mailbag’ interviews producer Johnny Beerling about the station’s use of jingles.

Audio of David Frost introducing the new London Weekend before Trevor Lucas takes ATV London off air for the final ever time

A promo for Thames on Rediffusion

An off-air audio recording of the first half hour of Thames’s first proper programme.

In 1971, the government prepares to announce commercial radio. BBC-1’s ’24 Hours’ programme examines what system they might choose in this audio recording

The BBC’s “24 Hours” looks at the troubled life of LWT in an audio recording from 1971.

The TVTimes celebrates the return of ITV after the long 1979 strike

TWW’s last ever programme – in full

LWT tries to strike back