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A New Vision

Published 2 November 2021

Leslie Mitchell remembers the run-up to the launch of the BBC Television Service

Slick – that is the new TV

Published 12 April 2021

It’s launch day for ITV in London, but there’s a fire in the stables in Ambridge…

‘ITV was the start of the Coca-colonisation of Britain’

Published 29 October 2018

In 1980, Jack Tinker, theatre critic of the Daily Mail, turns his unsympathetic eye to the launch of ITV in 1955

The John Baird

Published 3 August 2018

The [now-Royal] Television Society attends the opening of a pub commemorating the developer of TV

Rediffusion’s voices of authority

Published 17 December 2017

⧉ A gallery of Rediffusion continuity announcers with audio clips

► Twist and shouting

Published 16 October 2017

On 22 September 1975, Eamonn Andrews on the Thames ‘Today’ programme hosts a bad-tempered debate about ITV

Three giants

Published 2 March 2015

Leslie Mitchell, John Benson and Redvers Kyle

A member of the Transdiffusion Broadcasting System
Liverpool, Sunday 24 September 2023