Articles about BBC Television Service

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.

In 1976, producer Bill Ward recalls his time at BBCtv and ATV

A look at what was on the BBC Television Service on 21 October 1960

A 1954 interview with the BBC Television Service relief announcer Noëlle Middleton

Television arrives in the Midlands in 1949

The 75th Anniversary of the launch of the BBC Television Service from Alexandra Palace was commemorated by a small party at AP on Wednesday 2 November, 2011. Richard Elen was there to describe the scene.

1946: The BBC Television Service re-opens.

Exploding the myth of TV’s 1939 closedown

The politics behind television’s post-war return

Abram Games creates the first animated TV identity

1946 – and BBC Television makes plans after the war

Take a tour of Alexandra Palace

The BBC Television Service opens – twice

Thanks to John Logie Baird, ITV nearly arrived 50 years early

The BBC embraces television – and a new service is born

JLB pioneers television – but John Reith needs convincing

Kif Bowden-Smith on the politics behind the return of TV in 1946

Russ J Graham on a design revolution during a social revolution