Articles about BBC Television Service

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

A look at what was on television on Saturday 6 June 1953

By-ways of the BBC: exploring Ally Pally in 1938 [9/9]

A 1955 interview with Richard Hearne, once one of Britain’s biggest TV stars and now all but forgotten

A quick profile of BBCtv relief announcer Avis Scott from 1955

BBC Producer Stephen McCormack reveals what has gone on in making the London Town and About Britain programmes in 1955

The 1937 viewer may be surprised to learn that some parts of television are – gasp! – not real

The BBC’s Norman Collins explains television for the benefit of new Midlands viewers

The Radio Times explains the technical achievements in building the Sutton Coldfield transmitter in 1949

Commander A B Campbell tells the tale of his first appearance on TV

The BBC Handbook for 1938 looks back at the first year of television

Grace Wyndham Goldie explains the chaos that is making a television talk

The BBC Yearbook for 1947 tells us how television returned in June 1946

A 1940 description of what television was doing just as the order came to shut it down

The BBC’s senior engineer explains how they broadcast the 1948 London Olympics

The Times newspaper today reports the death of Sylvia Peters, the BBC’s chief female announcer in the 1940s and 50s.