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Published 5 December 2022
The presentation control room and the announcers move from Ally Pally to Lime Grove
Published 13 June 2022
Channel 4 have designed and built a computer to ensure split-second timing
Published 26 April 2021
Settling into her new job on air at TWW, Maureen Staffer has some ideas for the presentation department.
Published 28 July 2018
The ABC Midlands and North presentation schedule for 28 July 1968
Published 27 February 2018
⧉ How do you differentiate your two-day ITV company against a five-day behemoth?
Published 2 October 2017
TWW’s Bruce Lewis describes the preparation that goes into an evening of continuity announcing in 1966
Published 20 June 2017
What jobs are available in television presentation in 1965?
Published 30 July 2014
How the Daily Mirror saw the new logos of 1968 to be
Published 20 August 2011
Tyne Tees? HTV? Who has the most boring ident of them all?
Published 13 September 2010
For those children of the 80s the sight of Phillip Schofield in a cupboard will always be one that will hold a special place in our hearts. CBBC launched at 3:55 on 9 September 1985 and has been hanging around ever since.
Published 30 April 2010
Last Saturday, viewers of Doctor Who on BBC One in England were abruptly treated to a caption promoting “Over the Rainbow” which appeared shortly before the end credits during the…
Published 22 January 2009
As mentioned on the Digital Spy forum, this may have happened close to an ad break but is an example of the latest technique that’s now used by certain US…
Published 24 June 2008
Digital Spy: BBC phasing out quarter-size credits As somehow befitting a modern broadcaster, it’s taken a while but they got there in the end, namely that someone within the BBC…
Published 1 January 2002
How presentation – and daily start-ups – provided the full stops and commas of TV