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Published 26 December 2021
Part Five: Keith Waterhouse of the Daily Mirror looks into the future of British television
Published 19 April 2021
Rediffusion’s last-minute attempt to get up close and personal with its region
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)
Published 13 November 2017
⧉ An in-depth history, first published in 1967, of Rediffusion’s programmes for schools
Published 22 August 2016
The BBC’s senior engineer explains how they broadcast the 1948 London Olympics
Published 3 August 2015
Practical Television in 1958 looks at Granada’s branch studio in London
Published 27 July 2015
What was on Rediffusion on Tuesday 27 July 1965
Published 3 September 2014
What was on Thames and LWT on Friday 3 September 1971
Published 19 September 2011
BLOG: From the “Boris Johnson is clearly an expert on making television – better at it than even the BBC” file comes this rather farcical story….
Published 22 May 2008
There’s a certain irony that ITV apparently failed to meet its quotas for out of London production. Irony that a network which was founded on regional principles, to spread power and away from the capital, is now firmly rooted in London, and makes most of its programmes there.