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A New Midland Studio for BBC Television

Published 17 April 2023

Having opened in January 1956, the BBC’s Midland television studios are finally complete

BRMB 261 and 94.8 in STEREO!

Published 11 May 2022

A poster advertising BRMB Radio in Birmingham in the 1970s

Welcome to the NEW Region…

Published 21 January 2022

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

Pirate radio station run by schoolboys

Published 25 December 2020

We didn’t do it! But we wish we had…

I.T.V. in the Midlands opened

Published 22 July 2019

ATV comes to the Midlands in 1956, with the Birmingham Post waiting to welcome them

ATV Centre: bringing colour to life in the Midlands

Published 3 June 2019

The Birmingham Post celebrates the opening of the new ATV Centre in 1970 with a special pull-out supplement, digitised by us for you

Meet Horace Low…

Published 17 April 2018

Introducing Horace Low, technical store keeper at Alpha Studios in Birmingham in 1965

“What are the Wild Waves Saying?”

Published 7 December 2017

The BBC’s chief engineer in 1923 takes a tongue-in-cheek look back at the trials and tribulations of developing simultaneous broadcasting (networking as we would now call it)

Shows the viewers don’t see

Published 29 November 2017

⧉ ABC in 1957 are using Alpha Studios in Birmingham for a novel idea: testing 18 pilot shows they may never make…

Alpha Television Services

Published 22 September 2017

⧉ To celebrate 18 years of Transdiffusion on the web, we present a look behind the scenes at Alpha, ABC and ATV’s studios in Birmingham

✎ Here’s what you missed

Published 26 March 2017

Some pictures from the Transdiffusion Birmingham Soirée, held on 25 March 2017

A is for Alpha

Published 15 August 2010

How a former ABC cinema in Aston, Birmingham, became a power house of ITV production.

A member of the Transdiffusion Broadcasting System
Liverpool, Sunday 24 September 2023