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We make television worth watching

Published 25 July 2023

…says Granada in 1988

‘2 ZY Manchester Calling’!

Published 24 January 2022

A dryly humorous recollection of starting the BBC’s Manchester radio station in the 1920s

A trip to MediaCityUK

Published 11 January 2018

A gallery of recent pictures from MediaCityUK in Salford

“What are the Wild Waves Saying?”

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)

A day out to Quay Street

Published 7 November 2017

From the North: Tom Hargreaves remembers a tour around Granada’s studios in 1967

The Passing of the 9th Floor Back…

Published 25 August 2017

⧉ Over on our subsite ABC at Large, celebrate the new Television House opening in March 1962 in Mount Street in Manchester

So long, New Broadcasting House

Published 3 December 2011

Wandering round the BBC’s former Manchester studios

Manchester loses its Granada TV sign

Published 27 September 2010

Anyone who ever visited Manchester city centre will know there’s plenty of great delights to admire. And I’m not talking about the Arndale Centre here.

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