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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.