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How television works
Published 8 September 2023
This new ‘television’ idea is getting popular, but how does it work?
The Authority’s Stations: West and North Wales
Published 3 August 2023
ITV transmitters in 1962: north and west Wales
The Authority’s Stations: Channel Islands
Published 27 July 2023
ITV transmitters in 1962: Jersey, Guernsey, Sark and Herm
The Authority’s Stations: North-East Scotland
Published 20 July 2023
ITV transmitters in 1962: northern Scotland
The Authority’s Stations: The Borders
Published 13 July 2023
ITV transmitters in 1962: for the England/Scotland border
The Authority’s Stations: South-West England
Published 6 July 2023
ITV transmitters in 1962: the west country
The Authority’s Stations: Northern Ireland
Published 29 June 2023
ITV transmitters in 1962: Strabane and Black Mountain
The Authority’s Stations: East Anglia
Published 22 June 2023
ITV transmitters in 1962: Eastern England
The BBC and the Pilkington Committee
Published 16 June 2023
The BBC gets its response to the Pilkington Committee in early
The Authority’s Stations: North-East England
Published 15 June 2023
ITV transmitters in 1962: Northeastern England
The Authority’s Stations: South and South-East England
Published 8 June 2023
ITV transmitters in 1962: Southern region
The Authority’s Stations: South Wales and West of England
Published 1 June 2023
ITV transmitters in 1962: west of England and south of Wales
The Authority’s Stations: Central Scotland
Published 25 May 2023
ITV transmitters in 1962: lowland Scotland
Continental Control Point
Published 13 May 2023
A new control room for live continental broadcasting exchange opens in Broadcasting House
The Authority’s Stations: The Midlands
Published 11 May 2023
ITV transmitters in 1962: Midlands region
240, 405, 625, 1080… GO!
Published 31 December 2022
Geoff Nash tries to explain 2023’s TV technology to a 1936 viewer
Broadcasting in Britain: New Dimensions in Broadcasting – Colour and Stereophony
Published 30 December 2022
Part six of a brief technical history of broadcasting in Britain
Broadcasting in Britain: The Ascendancy of Television
Published 23 December 2022
Part five of a brief technical history of broadcasting in Britain
Broadcasting in Britain: The Pre-War Years 1932-1939
Published 9 December 2022
Part three of a brief technical history of broadcasting in Britain
Broadcasting in Britain: The Coming of Television
Published 2 December 2022
Part two of a brief technical history of broadcasting in Britain
Demonstration of Colour Television to Members of Parliament
Published 22 July 2022
The BBC tests NTSC colour on 405-lines for the benefit of MPs
Eurovision
Published 14 May 2022
Television prepares for its greatest triumph, to reach out beyond the frontiers of Europe and bring you instantaneous sights and sounds from six different countries
The future of television: The answer
Published 28 December 2021
Part Eleven: Keith Waterhouse of the Daily Mirror looks into the future of British television
The case for 405 line VHF colour
Published 8 December 2021
The general manager of Rediffusion on why we should go into colour now, in 1966
Correcting picture faults
Published 1 November 2021
Make sure your television set is fully adjusted to improve your viewing
New television standards: effect on British television
Published 19 February 2021
An upgrade from 405-lines to 625-lines is not enough on its own to get people to buy or rent new sets, says the BBC’s DC Birkinshaw in 1959
Continental television stations
Published 23 December 2020
A look at how television facilities have developed across Europe in 1967
Television apparatus
Published 31 July 2020
Television is coming soon and, the Nottingham Journal decides, the Baird system is the one to bet on
Why ITV is pulling out all the plugs
Published 24 June 2019
It’s almost S-night! With ITV about to convert from 405 to 625, the technology correspondent of the Sunday Times looks into what’s involved
Wired-up for service
Published 17 July 2018
Electrical maintenance: the beating heart of Television House and Wembley
The plain man’s guide to the changeover to 625 line TV
Published 24 April 2017
A 1963 guide to the options available for 625 lines, colour and ITV-2