Articles about Alexandra Palace

The trials of getting television pictures from far away outside broadcasts back to the studio

How the BBC will cover the coronation of George VI

Meet the man behind the BBC Television Service’s most memorable live shows

Part five of a brief technical history of broadcasting in Britain

Part four of a brief technical history of broadcasting in Britain

The presentation control room and the announcers move from Ally Pally to Lime Grove

Part two of a brief technical history of broadcasting in Britain

The BBC celebrates 60 years with a round-up of important dates and photographs

The BBC tests NTSC colour on 405-lines for the benefit of MPs

Leslie Mitchell remembers the run-up to the launch of the BBC Television Service

10-3, 10-3, you’re ruining our television reception

The BBC brings us up to speed on recent developments in television in 1961

Television is coming soon and, the Nottingham Journal decides, the Baird system is the one to bet on

By-ways of the BBC: exploring Ally Pally in 1938 [9/9]

Commander A B Campbell tells the tale of his first appearance on TV

The BBC Yearbook for 1947 tells us how television returned in June 1946

The 75th Anniversary of the launch of the BBC Television Service from Alexandra Palace was commemorated by a small party at AP on Wednesday 2 November, 2011. Richard Elen was there to describe the scene.

Exploding the myth of TV’s 1939 closedown

The politics behind television’s post-war return

Take a tour of Alexandra Palace

The BBC Television Service opens – twice

The BBC embraces television – and a new service is born

Kif Bowden-Smith on the politics behind the return of TV in 1946

Television comes to the BBC