Articles about outside broadcasts

The trials of getting television pictures from far away outside broadcasts back to the studio

A new control room for live continental broadcasting exchange opens in Broadcasting House

The BBC looks back at the Coronation earlier in 1937

The technical side to getting television to your home… and to the transmitter

Anthony Craxton recalls a few OBs he’d rather forget

The roving eye of the television camera can get anywhere these days, bringing sport and pageantry directly to your home

In city, town or country, Marconi Outside Broadcast equipment is the toast of 1954

The not-so-simple process of getting the output of the cameras to your TV screen in 1967

Colour is coming, and the February 1969 Thames staff magazine asks four department heads what they’re doing to get ready

In city, town or country, Marconi Outside Broadcast equipment is the toast of 1954 – see why in our new microsite

⧉ Over on our ABC subsite, the TVTimes in 1958 looks at the rush to get Outside Broadcasts on air at Christmas

The BBC’s coverage of the coronation of King George VI in 1937

Our series on the first year of Granada looks at local news for the North