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The funeral of Queen Elizabeth II

Published 26 December 2022

A comprehensive record of television and radio schedules during Queen Elizabeth II’s funeral on Monday 19 September 2022

When the President Broadcasts

Published 11 November 2022

Behind the scenes of an FDR fireside chat

“Here is the News”

Published 7 September 2022

The wireless is increasingly being used for news broadcasts in the UK, but elsewhere the story is different

BBC at War – part 4: Across the Oceans

Published 8 April 2022

The BBC reaches out across the world

American broadcasting

Published 9 July 2021

The BBC takes a rather sniffy view of developments in radio in the United States

New York cables’ answer to Carson: late-night sex

Published 14 June 2021

The curious case of pornography on cable television in the US in 1975

Visions unlimited

Published 28 August 2020

A glowing biography – nearer a hagiography – of General David Sarnoff, published in 1966 to celebrate 40 years of NBC

Tonight’s BBCtv… in 1965

Published 5 June 2019

A look at what was on BBCtv on Saturday 5 June 1965

Color City

Published 3 December 2018

The grand opening of NBC’s new colour studios in Burbank, California, is celebrated by the ‘NBC Chimes’ staff magazine in 1955

Oswald shooting a first in television history

Published 24 November 2018

The first murder ever seen live on television

The dimension JFK added to television

Published 23 November 2018

A life – and death – lived on television

A World Listened and Watched

Published 22 November 2018

How the four American networks – ABC, CBS, Mutual and NBC – covered the assassination of President Kennedy

Previewing Television

Published 17 September 2018

A radio reviewer looks on incredulously at the coming of television to the United States in 1935

Back to the Late Shift

Published 23 January 2010

NBC hasn’t learned its lesson not to alienate its viewers… or its talent.

Breaking the news too fast

Published 23 June 2008

On the internet, news can sometimes travel too fast

In Memoriam: Tim Russert

Published 22 June 2008

Tim Russert of NBC remembered

Redefining Regional TV – American Style

Published 11 May 2008

US experience proves ITV wrong

Making a mockery

Published 1 July 2007

Chase McPherson discovers Network Six

American Identity

Published 31 December 2006

Everything you hate about UK prez we learned from the USA

ITV, American Style

Published 14 June 2001

US policy

Slow to dominate

Published 14 June 2001

US networks

A member of the Transdiffusion Broadcasting System
Liverpool, Tuesday 23 May 2023