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B.B.C. Television comes of age
Published 2 November 2023
21 years from the official start of the BBC Television Service, the Earls Court Radio Show looks at how the BBC are celebrating at the exhibition
High Definition Television – A British Achievement
Published 20 October 2023
There’s a lot for the British to be proud of when it comes to TV
How television works
Published 8 September 2023
This new ‘television’ idea is getting popular, but how does it work?
Colour TV: This is how it will look when it comes
Published 10 July 2023
Back to mechanical television as a way of bringing colour into your home
Distance No Object
Published 15 May 2023
The trials of getting television pictures from far away outside broadcasts back to the studio
Plans for the coronation broadcast
Published 6 May 2023
How the BBC will cover the coronation of George VI
Presenting BILL WARD in his sensational production JUGGLING with the STARS
Published 20 March 2023
Meet the man behind the BBC Television Service’s most memorable live shows
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: War-time Broadcasting
Published 16 December 2022
Part four of a brief technical history of broadcasting in Britain
Announcers’ Suite
Published 5 December 2022
The presentation control room and the announcers move from Ally Pally to Lime Grove
Broadcasting in Britain: The Coming of Television
Published 2 December 2022
Part two of a brief technical history of broadcasting in Britain
Pictures from 60 BBC years
Published 14 November 2022
The BBC celebrates 60 years with a round-up of important dates and photographs
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
A New Vision
Published 2 November 2021
Leslie Mitchell remembers the run-up to the launch of the BBC Television Service
Progress in television
Published 25 September 2020
The BBC brings us up to speed on recent developments in television in 1961
Television apparatus
Published 31 July 2020
Television is coming soon and, the Nottingham Journal decides, the Baird system is the one to bet on
When I was in – at the start of TV
Published 10 November 2016
Commander A B Campbell tells the tale of his first appearance on TV
Television returns in 1946
Published 3 October 2016
The BBC Yearbook for 1947 tells us how television returned in June 1946
Celebrating 75 Years of BBC Television
Published 9 November 2011
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.
The fools return to the hill
Published 18 March 2004
The politics behind television’s post-war return
The opening of the BBC Television Service
Published 3 July 2003
The BBC Television Service opens – twice
The fools on the hill
Published 13 March 2003
The BBC embraces television – and a new service is born
The Fools On The Hill Return
Published 1 January 2002
Kif Bowden-Smith on the politics behind the return of TV in 1946