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Published 26 October 2023
The superhuman effort of getting microwave dishes up towers for outside broadcasts
Published 28 September 2023
You’re about to see the world from a very unusual angle: straight down!
Published 15 May 2023
The trials of getting television pictures from far away outside broadcasts back to the studio
Published 13 May 2023
A new control room for live continental broadcasting exchange opens in Broadcasting House
Published 27 January 2023
The technical side to getting television to your home… and to the transmitter
Published 7 October 2022
The roving eye of the television camera can get anywhere these days, bringing sport and pageantry directly to your home
Published 22 October 2021
In city, town or country, Marconi Outside Broadcast equipment is the toast of 1954
Published 14 August 2020
The not-so-simple process of getting the output of the cameras to your TV screen in 1967
Published 24 May 2019
Colour is coming, and the February 1969 Thames staff magazine asks four department heads what they’re doing to get ready
Published 3 May 2018
In city, town or country, Marconi Outside Broadcast equipment is the toast of 1954 – see why in our new microsite
Published 16 November 2017
⧉ Over on our ABC subsite, the TVTimes in 1958 looks at the rush to get Outside Broadcasts on air at Christmas
Published 12 May 2017
The BBC’s coverage of the coronation of King George VI in 1937
Published 4 April 2017
Our series on the first year of Granada looks at local news for the North