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‘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.