Articles about BBC Television Service

How could you expect a girl to play a love scene looking like a corpse? It’s what they had to do in the early days

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

There’s a lot for the British to be proud of when it comes to TV

You’re about to see the world from a very unusual angle: straight down!

This new ‘television’ idea is getting popular, but how does it work?

How a TV camera works

Is the BBC fit for the hard work of covering the Coronation? And does it cost too much?

The experiments are over: it’s time to put Eurovision to work

A new control room for live continental broadcasting exchange opens in Broadcasting House

Live pictures from Aachen to Zurich are now possible

The BBC looks back at the Coronation earlier in 1937

A leaflet celebrating 40 years of our BBC

The BBC celebrates 60 years with a round-up of important dates and photographs

BBCtv uses more feet of film each year than Hollywood

Richard Dimbleby explains his BBC Television Service commentary to the Sunday Dispatch in June 1953

A look at BBCtv programmes for children in 1951

Television prepares for its greatest triumph, to reach out beyond the frontiers of Europe and bring you instantaneous sights and sounds from six different countries

A 1938 diagram of a television studio caught our eye…

Looking back at the first ten years of technical developments at the BBC

A review of the progress of the BBC Television Service

Inside BBCtv, from 1930 to 1950, in pictures

A visit to the Scenery Block – the first part of the new BBC Television Centre

Going very much behind the scenes to meet the women who clean the BBCtv studios

An interview with the BBC continuity announcer McDonald Hobley

Photographs and short biographies of fifty BBC announcers and news-readers

A personal recollection of organising a most ambitious television link-up

Huw Wheldon takes us around the new Television Centre, under construction in Shepherd’s Bush

Television comes to the Midlands in 1949 and here’s all you need to know about the new Sutton Coldfield transmitter

The BBC’s Civil Engineer describes how the new Television Centre in London’s Shepherd’s Bush will look

Leslie Mitchell remembers the run-up to the launch of the BBC Television Service

In city, town or country, Marconi Outside Broadcast equipment is the toast of 1954

The BBC looks back at a momentous year for technology and broadcasting

How did the launch of the BBC’s Kirk o’Shotts TV transmitter go down with viewers in 1952?

A camera test exposes the behind-the-scenes choices announcers have to make in 1951

A local newspaper celebrates 25 years of BBCtv in 1961

The opening-day speeches from the new BBC Television Service

60 men battle the elements to bring BBCtv to the north of England in 1951

The BBC brings us up to speed on recent developments in television in 1961

Disaster strikes television development as the Crystal Palace burns down

Travel back to 1956 as the BBC celebrates 20 years of television

Television is about to be looking back at you in 1953. That sounds fun.

Television pictures get from Rome to Copenhagen, Paris, Bonn, Hilversum and London in an exciting new development in 1954

BBCtv continuity announcer, reporter, actress and director Jacqueline Mackenzie tells us how to land – and keep – a role in television in 1958

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

Vic Gardiner of LWT remembers the first 25 years of ITV in 1980 – and his part in the network’s development