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Published 24 December 2022
The ghosts of Christmases past: 10 covers from Christmas editions of Fusion, the Rediffusion staff newsletter
Published 16 November 2022
Rediffusion’s programme board means business
Published 28 September 2022
There’s only one thing worse than the thighs and boobs in Rediffusion’s Riviera Police – and that’s when there aren’t any, writes Milton Shulman
Published 8 December 2021
The general manager of Rediffusion on why we should go into colour now, in 1966
Published 27 September 2021
The ITA gives us a quick look at how ITV is organised in 1966
Published 2 September 2021
One of the two quintessential ITV quiz shows
Published 30 July 2021
A nine-year-old turns on Rediffusion in 1968… and gets a surprise
Published 3 May 2021
It’s 29 July 1968 and Rediffusion London comes on air for the very last time
Published 19 April 2021
Rediffusion’s last-minute attempt to get up close and personal with its region
Published 23 October 2020
300 possible applicants for the 1968 ITV contracts… and the Midlands is the one they all want
Published 3 September 2019
We’re on our way to Wembley… and to Television House in Kingsway
Published 1 July 2019
Rediffusion London picks the 12 best programmes of 1967, including the Seven Deadly Virtues, The Gamblers, Betjeman’s London and Lady Windermere’s Fan…
Published 17 June 2019
Rediffusion London picks the 12 best programmes of 1966, with stars such as David Frost, Bernard Levin, Ian Hendry, Joe Orton and James Mason…
Published 1 February 2019
Rediffusion seconded their assistant head of casting to ATN 7 in Melbourne in 1967. Here she reports back on the television scene in Australia
Published 8 January 2019
Rediffusion’s chairman tears the ITA to shreds in his final address to shareholders in December 1967
Published 28 September 2018
Fusion magazine looks back over an eventful year for Rediffusion
Published 11 September 2018
Your TVTimes correspondent in 1964 is frankly baffled by ‘Don’t Say a Word’
Published 3 September 2018
Vic Gardiner of LWT remembers the first 25 years of ITV in 1980 – and his part in the network’s development
Published 28 August 2018
James Green of the London Evening News looks back at a decade (and slightly more) of Rediffusion and ITV in 1967
Published 14 August 2018
An exhibition celebrates Rediffusion’s graphic designers in December 1966
Published 9 August 2018
An introduction to Independent Television in 1966
Published 30 July 2018
Celebrating 50 years of London’s Weekday ITV: Thames – a talent for television
Published 23 July 2018
The Daily Mirror reports on the decisions taken by the ITA in the ITV franchise round of 1967
Published 2 July 2018
The Daily Mirror watches David Frost prepare for his Rediffusion show in 1967
Published 13 June 2018
It’s all go as the advertising department at Rediffusion installs a computer in 1966
Published 5 June 2018
Rediffusion’s advertising agency on what makes good and bad television ads in 1965
Published 15 May 2018
No more miming as Ready Steady Go moves from Television House to Wembley in 1965
Published 13 April 2018
A special feature website on the relaunch of Rediffusion London in April 1964
Published 26 January 2018
⧉ Cyril Coke finds himself moving up through the ranks with his new series in 1965