Articles about Birmingham

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

A poster advertising BRMB Radio in Birmingham in the 1970s

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

We didn’t do it! But we wish we had…

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

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

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

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)

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

⧉ 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

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

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