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VHF: Sound Broadcasting at its best

Published 30 June 2023

How the new VHF-FM broadcasting system will benefit you – and how to tune in

The BBC and the Pilkington Committee

Published 16 June 2023

The BBC gets its response to the Pilkington Committee in early

T.V. Plans

Published 2 June 2023

What’s coming up for television and radio beyond 1957?

Broadcasting in Britain: The Ascendancy of Television

Published 23 December 2022

Part five of a brief technical history of broadcasting in Britain

Local radio, wavelengths and Radio 1

Published 16 September 2022

Giving the BBC’s wavelengths to commercial radio doesn’t create competition, it just makes a different monopoly, says Ian Trethowan

BBC transmitters in 1965/6

Published 15 August 2022

BBC Technical Information maps of VHF and MW transmitters

BBC VHF-FM transmitters in 1974

Published 24 May 2022

Your cut-out n’ keep guide to tuning into the three BBC FM services – some now in stereo! – in the UK

Thirty Productive Acres

Published 15 April 2022

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

Doing the splits

Published 20 December 2021

A new idea in Independent Local Radio – broadcasting different things on AM to what’s on FM

A year of decisions

Published 6 August 2021

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

Removing target dates for digital radio switchover can only be a sensible move

Published 8 July 2010

What can really be said about the decision to abandon the 2015 date for digital radio switchover, other than, it’s rather sensible?

Radio and Britain’s Digital Future

Published 1 July 2009

If we’re keeping DAB, we need to upgrade it to use modern codecs. But why not skip all that and move the “radio space” to IP networks? However, you can’t do that until there is a national broadband infrastructure that will need a lot more than copper-based 2Mb/s. So until then, maybe keeping FM is the thing to do…

A member of the Transdiffusion Broadcasting System
Liverpool, Friday 29 September 2023