Home > Archives

Articles about Alpha Studios

Pioneer

Published 11 October 2021

Richard Wyn Jones talks to ITV pioneer Roy Hayward, who worked at Aston, Teledu Cymru and Southern

Curtain up to-night on Midland ITV

Published 16 October 2020

Over on our site about Alpha, the joint studios of ABC and ATV in Birmingham, it’s launch night for ITV in the Midlands

ATV Centre: bringing colour to life in the Midlands

Published 3 June 2019

The Birmingham Post celebrates the opening of the new ATV Centre in 1970 with a special pull-out supplement, digitised by us for you

ACTT members visit East Germany

Published 12 November 2018

Four members of the ACTT union go on a trip to East Germany in 1960 and like what they find

Inside ABC’s last day

Published 28 July 2018

The ABC Midlands and North presentation schedule for 28 July 1968

Meet Horace Low…

Published 17 April 2018

Introducing Horace Low, technical store keeper at Alpha Studios in Birmingham in 1965

Presenting the difference

Published 27 February 2018

⧉ How do you differentiate your two-day ITV company against a five-day behemoth?

Let’s Go… again!

Published 8 January 2018

⧉ Alpha’s Saturday sports and features programme ‘Let’s Go’ returns for a second series in 1960

Shows the viewers don’t see

Published 29 November 2017

⧉ ABC in 1957 are using Alpha Studios in Birmingham for a novel idea: testing 18 pilot shows they may never make…

Alpha Television Services

Published 22 September 2017

⧉ To celebrate 18 years of Transdiffusion on the web, we present a look behind the scenes at Alpha, ABC and ATV’s studios in Birmingham

Shaw Taylor: Dots Before His Eyes

Published 29 March 2016

The TVTimes talks to Shaw Taylor about his ATV quiz show ‘Dotto’ in 1960

A is for Alpha

Published 15 August 2010

How a former ABC cinema in Aston, Birmingham, became a power house of ITV production.

A member of the Transdiffusion Broadcasting System
Liverpool, Thursday 28 March 2024