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Published 27 September 2023
Switching Wembley from film to television ready for the launch of ITV
Published 22 September 2023
ITV is two years old today. The managing directors celebrate, as does Associated-Rediffusion
Published 26 July 2023
Mike Metcalfe, Control Section Supervisor, explains how television cameras work
Published 21 July 2023
What’s on ITV tonight? There was once over a dozen answers to this question
Published 19 July 2023
Basil Bultitude explains the differences between 405, 525, 625 and 819 lines
Published 12 July 2023
Basil Bultitude explains what genlock is, why it is used and the advantages of other systems
Published 7 July 2023
If I could turn back time, we’d rock around the clock
Published 24 December 2022
The ghosts of Christmases past: 10 covers from Christmas editions of Fusion, the Rediffusion staff newsletter
Published 22 September 2022
You probably can’t get the newly launched commercial television yet, but here’s how it works
Published 27 July 2022
Remembering Captain Thomas Marcus Brownrigg OBE, CBE, DSO, RN (Rtd), IDC
Published 10 May 2022
A word from Associated-Rediffusion management in 1960: technical limitations are preventing ITV-2
Published 3 May 2022
A word from Associated-Rediffusion management in 1960: how Studio 5 at Wembley is coming along
Published 26 April 2022
A word from Associated-Rediffusion management in 1959: the door to Human Resources is always open
Published 19 April 2022
A word from Associated-Rediffusion management in 1959: has the quality of A-R programming fallen?
Published 12 April 2022
A word from Associated-Rediffusion management in 1959: sorry, what did you want me to write?
Published 5 April 2022
A word from Associated-Rediffusion management in 1959: BBC-2, ITV-2 or a brand new TV-3?
Published 29 March 2022
A word from Associated-Rediffusion management in 1959: keep an eye on the balance sheet
Published 22 March 2022
A word from Associated-Rediffusion management in 1958: how do we keep our standards so high?
Published 15 March 2022
A word from Associated-Rediffusion management in 1958: how we make sure our adverts are good adverts
Published 8 March 2022
A word from Associated-Rediffusion management in 1958: how to mix levity with depth
Published 1 March 2022
A word from Associated-Rediffusion management in 1958: we don’t want an ITV-2 or a BBC-2
Published 28 February 2022
How the simple art of TV continuity and a decorative graphic were instrumental in my learning the alphabet and telling the time
Published 16 February 2022
Studio 5 at Wembley has been designed. A-R’s chief engineer takes us around the plans
Published 14 February 2022
A gallop through how ITV got to opening day and what’s next for the new network
Published 9 February 2022
What will television look like in 1984? The programme makers of 1958 try to find out
Published 5 January 2022
Associated-Rediffusion asks its producers what makes a ‘feature’ in 1960
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 10 November 2021
A series of Associated-Rediffusion video dramas make their way on to ABC in the United States
Published 13 October 2021
How film gets on to Rediffusion viewers’ television screens
Published 29 September 2021
The Beatles are back in the UK in 1964… and back on ABC’s Big Night Out!
Published 22 September 2021
Behind the scenes of that new ‘Independent Television’ you’ve heard so much about
Published 2 September 2021
One of the two quintessential ITV quiz shows
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 13 January 2021
A change in policy at A-R and ATV as they bring their announcers into view
Published 8 January 2021
Rediffusion’s INTERTEL strand asks: what do recipients of American aid think about America in 1962?
Published 7 December 2020
1958 approaches… has the corner turned for ITV?
Published 22 September 2020
Commercial television launches in London tonight – but how will that affect the people of Banbury?
Published 20 March 2020
Pete Singleton travels back to 1958 to find out what was making waves in television