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You love a good play?

Published 10 October 2023

A-R have got a lot of them

In Nine Months TV Transforms Wembley Studios

Published 27 September 2023

Switching Wembley from film to television ready for the launch of ITV

Second Birthday

Published 22 September 2023

ITV is two years old today. The managing directors celebrate, as does Associated-Rediffusion

How it works… Camera Pick-up Tubes

Published 26 July 2023

Mike Metcalfe, Control Section Supervisor, explains how television cameras work

Another chance to see… regional ITV

Published 21 July 2023

What’s on ITV tonight? There was once over a dozen answers to this question

How it works… A question of lines

Published 19 July 2023

Basil Bultitude explains the differences between 405, 525, 625 and 819 lines

How it works… The Problem of Genlock

Published 12 July 2023

Basil Bultitude explains what genlock is, why it is used and the advantages of other systems

Another chance to see… the time

Published 7 July 2023

If I could turn back time, we’d rock around the clock

T.V. Plans

Published 2 June 2023

What’s coming up for television and radio beyond 1957?

Did you see… 1960

Published 6 May 2023

The pick of the day’s television today in 1960

The Authority’s Stations: London

Published 5 May 2023

ITV transmitters in 1962: London region

Christmas with Fusion

Published 24 December 2022

The ghosts of Christmases past: 10 covers from Christmas editions of Fusion, the Rediffusion staff newsletter

The ITA so far

Published 22 September 2022

You probably can’t get the newly launched commercial television yet, but here’s how it works

A very remarkable man

Published 27 July 2022

Remembering Captain Thomas Marcus Brownrigg OBE, CBE, DSO, RN (Rtd), IDC

Fourth floor says… Why we cannot have more TV programmes at present

Published 10 May 2022

A word from Associated-Rediffusion management in 1960: technical limitations are preventing ITV-2

Fourth floor (Carlton House) says… ‘Success to Studio 5’

Published 3 May 2022

A word from Associated-Rediffusion management in 1960: how Studio 5 at Wembley is coming along

Fourth floor says… ‘Come and Talk’

Published 26 April 2022

A word from Associated-Rediffusion management in 1959: the door to Human Resources is always open

Fourth floor says… We want better quality programmes

Published 19 April 2022

A word from Associated-Rediffusion management in 1959: has the quality of A-R programming fallen?

Forth flaw sez… 1,250 words?

Published 12 April 2022

A word from Associated-Rediffusion management in 1959: sorry, what did you want me to write?

Fourth floor says… Thoughts on a third programme

Published 5 April 2022

A word from Associated-Rediffusion management in 1959: BBC-2, ITV-2 or a brand new TV-3?

Fourth floor says… Off-screen credits

Published 29 March 2022

A word from Associated-Rediffusion management in 1959: keep an eye on the balance sheet

Floor four says… Keep our sights high

Published 22 March 2022

A word from Associated-Rediffusion management in 1958: how do we keep our standards so high?

Floor four says… Safeguards for the viewer

Published 15 March 2022

A word from Associated-Rediffusion management in 1958: how we make sure our adverts are good adverts

Floor four says… Balance

Published 8 March 2022

A word from Associated-Rediffusion management in 1958: how to mix levity with depth

Floor four says… How many programmes?

Published 1 March 2022

A word from Associated-Rediffusion management in 1958: we don’t want an ITV-2 or a BBC-2

Join the Club

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

Associated-Rediffusion’s new studio

Published 16 February 2022

Studio 5 at Wembley has been designed. A-R’s chief engineer takes us around the plans

INDEPENDENT TELEVISION: Present and Future Policy on Development

Published 14 February 2022

A gallop through how ITV got to opening day and what’s next for the new network

Television in 1984

Published 9 February 2022

What will television look like in 1984? The programme makers of 1958 try to find out

What is TV good taste?

Published 2 February 2022

Is it possible to define “good TV”?

Features: a matter of opinion

Published 5 January 2022

Associated-Rediffusion asks its producers what makes a ‘feature’ in 1960

The future of television: What next?

Published 26 December 2021

Part Five: Keith Waterhouse of the Daily Mirror looks into the future of British television

The future of television: Who owns television?

Published 25 December 2021

Part Three: Keith Waterhouse of the Daily Mirror looks into the future of British television

Stars and wipes

Published 10 November 2021

A series of Associated-Rediffusion video dramas make their way on to ABC in the United States

How it works… telecine

Published 13 October 2021

How film gets on to Rediffusion viewers’ television screens

Beatles big TV scoop!

Published 29 September 2021

The Beatles are back in the UK in 1964… and back on ABC’s Big Night Out!

The Story of Independent TV

Published 22 September 2021

Behind the scenes of that new ‘Independent Television’ you’ve heard so much about

Another chance to see… Take Your Pick

Published 2 September 2021

One of the two quintessential ITV quiz shows

In association with…

Published 7 June 2021

Competition or cooperation? In May 1956 it’s still not clear which will be ITV’s main thrust

To the North

Published 10 May 2021

A twisty tale of how to get two- and three-way networking established for ITV in the 1950s

ITV puts its announcers in the picture

Published 13 January 2021

A change in policy at A-R and ATV as they bring their announcers into view

The billion-dollar builders

Published 8 January 2021

Rediffusion’s INTERTEL strand asks: what do recipients of American aid think about America in 1962?

The Year in Commercial Television

Published 7 December 2020

1958 approaches… has the corner turned for ITV?

Yes, commercial T.V. is here

Published 22 September 2020

Commercial television launches in London tonight – but how will that affect the people of Banbury?

A Superb Souvenir of the Year’s Television

Published 20 March 2020

Pete Singleton travels back to 1958 to find out what was making waves in television

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