Articles about colour

Border Television’s tenth birthday brings something new: colour

Back to mechanical television as a way of bringing colour into your home

Part six of a brief technical history of broadcasting in Britain

The BBC celebrates 60 years with a round-up of important dates and photographs

The BBC tests NTSC colour on 405-lines for the benefit of MPs

A trip to Kingswood Warren to see how the BBC Research Department is keeping ahead of technological developments

Part Eleven: Keith Waterhouse of the Daily Mirror looks into the future of British television

The general manager of Rediffusion on why we should go into colour now, in 1966

1968 was a busy year for ATV Network, as this excerpt from their annual report for 1969 reveals

The BBC looks back at a momentous year for technology and broadcasting

The traffic stops as BBC-2 stumbles into colour…

An upgrade from 405-lines to 625-lines is not enough on its own to get people to buy or rent new sets, says the BBC’s DC Birkinshaw in 1959

Get ready for something new: HTV West is about to launch with local programmes for local people

The BBC brings us up to speed on recent developments in television in 1961

Will Border Television go to the wall due to the ITV levy and the costs of introducing colour?

Ten years of Grampian are celebrated by them going into colour in 1971

The future of black-and-white is here: subjective colour

It’s C-Day! The Controller of BBC-1 and an array of newspaper critics look at what colour will bring to the channel

Colour is coming, and the February 1969 Thames staff magazine asks four department heads what they’re doing to get ready

Colour… UHF… 625… Duplication… What the viewer needs to know in 1969

The grand opening of NBC’s new colour studios in Burbank, California, is celebrated by the ‘NBC Chimes’ staff magazine in 1955

Fusion magazine looks back over an eventful year for Rediffusion

Norman Collins is disappointed with the government’s White Paper on Broadcasting Policy in 1967

Lord Bernstein thinks that colour is a waste of money. The Daily Telegraph in 1969 does not

The 1964 contract renewal won, Howard Thomas explains what ABC will be doing for the next three years

Inside the technical developments pioneered by the European Broadcasting Union in 1967

David Attenborough looks back at a year of BBC-2 in colour

The Daily Express is outraged in 1966 when the government announces there will be no colour on BBC-1 and ITV

Margaret Baird talks to the TVTimes in 1969 about her life with the inventor of television

Colour comes to ITV, courtesy of tests done by ITA chief engineer Howard Steele

The ITA answers back to critics who say ITV is too violent and commercial

The changes the make-up artists at Thames, Yorkshire and ATV had to make for the introduction of colour TV

Noele Gordon remembers testing colour television with John Logie Baird in the 1930s

I think we now know ‘what’, but not ‘why’

Sydney Bernstein argues against going colour in 1969

The BBC encourages us to tune our sets correctly for BBC-2 and colour in 1968

The joys of 405-line television