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Published 25 April 2019
Peter Ling goes to Room 518 on the fifth floor to visit the manager of the drama department Vyvienne Moynihan in 1959
Published 18 April 2019
Peter Ling pops to Wembley to talk to Len Fraser in the Property Store in 1959
Published 11 April 2019
Peter Ling visits the first floor office of property master Des McCormack in 1959
Published 4 April 2019
Peter Ling watches Pam Elliott wield a panstick for Rediffusion in 1958
Published 21 March 2019
Peter Ling pops up to the second floor to meet Albert Short, head of the post room
Published 14 March 2019
Peter Ling goes down on to the studio floor to meet FM Tony Hulley in 1958
Published 7 March 2019
Peter Ling pays a visit to the Rediffusion Club and talks to bartender Betty Bowes in 1958
Published 8 January 2019
Rediffusion’s chairman tears the ITA to shreds in his final address to shareholders in December 1967
Published 12 November 2018
Four members of the ACTT union go on a trip to East Germany in 1960 and like what they find
Published 26 October 2018
The TVTimes finds the secrets of Associated-Rediffusion’s casting director Weston Drury in 1956
Published 17 October 2018
Meet Muriel Young and Daphne Anderson, announcers for Associated-Rediffusion and ABC (aka ATV) in 1955
Published 3 September 2018
Vic Gardiner of LWT remembers the first 25 years of ITV in 1980 – and his part in the network’s development
Published 28 August 2018
James Green of the London Evening News looks back at a decade (and slightly more) of Rediffusion and ITV in 1967
Published 24 April 2018
Can Associated-Rediffusion do television plays for television? Nobody else seems to be doing so, writes Peter Graham Scott in 1961
Published 13 April 2018
A special feature website on the relaunch of Rediffusion London in April 1964
Published 29 March 2018
⧉ Going backstage with the producers of A-R’s ‘On Stage’ in 1957
Published 22 March 2018
Pay a visit to A-R’s Here and Now in 1963 to learn about diving, dancing and diamonds
Published 24 December 2017
A look at what was on ARTV on Christmas Day 1957
Published 17 December 2017
⧉ A gallery of Rediffusion continuity announcers with audio clips
Published 22 November 2017
A look at what was on ARTV on Tuesday 22 November 1955
Published 13 November 2017
⧉ An in-depth history, first published in 1967, of Rediffusion’s programmes for schools
Published 29 September 2017
⧉ Over on our Rediffusion subsite, a 1961 visit to the film editing department at Television House
Published 15 September 2017
⧉ Over on our Rediffusion subsite, director James Butler talks about the hell that is studio visits by the public
Published 8 September 2017
⧉ Over on our Rediffusion subsite, director Mark Lawton is seconded to West Germany in 1961… and the results are Not Good
Published 18 July 2017
Meet television’s first on-screen teacher, appearing on our screens in 1957
Published 11 July 2017
Did Associated-Rediffusion’s managing director predict digital television in 1962?
Published 8 February 2017
A look at what was on A-R on Wednesday 8 February 1956
Published 22 September 2016
How The Age reacted to the birth of ITV
Published 22 September 2016
How the Ottawa Citizen reacted to the birth of ITV
Published 22 September 2016
How the Glasgow newspapers reacted to the birth of ITV
Published 22 September 2016
How the Daytona Beach Morning Journal reacted to the birth of ITV
Published 12 April 2016
A new minisite from Transdiffusion devoted to the soon-to-be-gone Wembley studios.
Published 30 November 2015
An unpopular war in the Middle East forces a change of identity for the biggest ITV company
Published 22 September 2015
Associated-Rediffusion starts the day with pomp and circumstance