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Published 4 May 2023
How Granada and ABC will be handling the 1959 general election
Published 24 March 2023
The background to the innovative ABC pop show of the 1960s
Published 22 March 2023
The chairman of the Associated British Picture Corporation on his plans for the new ABC Weekend in 1955
Published 1 January 2023
The press pack for a new drama series on ABC Weekend: The Human Jungle
Published 13 July 2022
The paperwork behind bringing one person on to Opportunity Knocks
Published 14 February 2022
A gallop through how ITV got to opening day and what’s next for the new network
Published 3 January 2022
John Edmunds hangs up his newsreader’s tie and gets ready to tread the boards – or not
Published 26 December 2021
Part Five: Keith Waterhouse of the Daily Mirror looks into the future of British television
Published 25 December 2021
Part Three: Keith Waterhouse of the Daily Mirror looks into the future of British television
Published 12 November 2021
Ray Moore gets a job at Granada, and at Tyne Tees, parlays that into a job at ATV and then makes the jump to the BBC
Published 29 September 2021
The Beatles are back in the UK in 1964… and back on ABC’s Big Night Out!
Published 27 September 2021
The ITA gives us a quick look at how ITV is organised in 1966
Published 24 September 2021
Inside ABC Weekend Television in Didsbury, Aston and Teddington in 1960
Published 7 June 2021
Competition or cooperation? In May 1956 it’s still not clear which will be ITV’s main thrust
Published 10 May 2021
A twisty tale of how to get two- and three-way networking established for ITV in the 1950s
Published 5 March 2021
It’s 1960 and Granada and ABC look back at the last 4 years on air and what’s coming for ITV
Published 13 January 2021
A change in policy at A-R and ATV as they bring their announcers into view
Published 7 December 2020
1958 approaches… has the corner turned for ITV?
Published 26 November 2020
Over on our revamped Zenith site, a deep dive into a typical ABC Saturday in 1964
Published 19 November 2020
Over on our revamped Zenith site, a deep dive into a typical ABC Sunday in 1964
Published 5 November 2020
How does an ABC announcer cope with the fans, the long hours and… toothache?
Published 23 October 2020
300 possible applicants for the 1968 ITV contracts… and the Midlands is the one they all want
Published 14 September 2020
The charge today is: ITV dopes the public… according to the Daily Herald in 1958
Published 10 September 2020
We’ve lost Dame Diana Rigg, best known to us as Mrs Peel in ABC’s The Avengers. Patrick Macnee and Ian Hendry tell the story of the series in our special website from 1976
Published 29 July 2020
Network Distributing launch their streaming service with three nights of ABC Weekend TV
Published 18 April 2020
Six articles to read to keep your mind alert during the lockdown
Published 20 March 2020
Pete Singleton travels back to 1958 to find out what was making waves in television
Published 31 October 2019
The Sunday Independent in Dublin reports on the opening of Ulster Television
Published 2 July 2019
Join us for a look back at The Avengers and The New Avengers, plus the autobiography of Patrick Macnee
Published 8 April 2019
Our new subsite goes behind the cameras at ABC in Didsbury, Aston and Teddington in 1960
Published 27 March 2019
Travel back to this day in 1966 to find out what’s on ABC in the North
Published 26 March 2019
Travel back to this day in 1966 to find out what’s on ABC in the North
Published 4 February 2019
All television production requires training, especially when it’s amateurs in front of the camera. In 1959, ABC Weekend set out to teach the vicars, priests and bishops of Britain how to work in TV
Published 10 January 2019
Meet the co-host of ABC’s The Sunday Break in 1959: starlet Julie Stevens
Published 8 January 2019
Rediffusion’s chairman tears the ITA to shreds in his final address to shareholders in December 1967
Published 6 November 2018
Angus Wilson reviews the contribution made to the arts by ABC Weekend TV’s ‘Tempo’ in 1964
Published 31 October 2018
A look at what was on ABC Weekend TV in the North on Saturday 31 October 1964
Published 19 October 2018
Philip Harben introduces his new cookery show – The Grammar of Cookery – in 1964, part of ABC’s Headway adult education service
Published 5 October 2018
Introducing Dinah Lee and Jane Taylor, playing sisters in ABC new serial ‘My Sister and I’ in 1956