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New European Wavelengths Plan

Published 15 January 2023

An in-depth look at the Lucerne Plan for radio wavelengths in Europe in 1933

Broadcasting in Britain: The Formative Years

Published 25 November 2022

Part one of a brief technical history of broadcasting in Britain

The original radiophone

Published 20 June 2022

Before the BBC, there was the Electrophone

The future of television: The I.T.A.

Published 26 December 2021

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

To the North

Published 10 May 2021

A twisty tale of how to get two- and three-way networking established for ITV in the 1950s

Pirate radio station run by schoolboys

Published 25 December 2020

We didn’t do it! But we wish we had…

The Anglia-TV installations

Published 9 September 2020

Anglia Television is about to come on air, meaning lots of technical developments

The fall of Teledu Cymru

Published 12 August 2020

The ITA reports on their biggest failure to date: the fall of Wales (West and North) Television in 1964

A member of the Transdiffusion Broadcasting System
Liverpool, Thursday 21 September 2023