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Published 26 March 2023
A brilliant composer, particularly of TV music, has died.
Published 21 June 2018
CHANNEL TELEVISION AT 60 • Channel Television starts the day in 1962
Published 14 June 2018
Granada Television starts the day on the evening of its new 7-day contract
Published 22 December 2015
CHANNEL TELEVISION AT 60 • Channel Television starts the day in 1974… in black and white
Published 30 November 2015
An unpopular war in the Middle East forces a change of identity for the biggest ITV company
Published 9 November 2015
ATV Midlands starts the day with a rousing tune and a pretty slide
Published 26 October 2015
Combining ABC and Rediffusion the opposite way to Thames
Published 12 October 2015
ATV London starts the day with a rousing march from Eric Coates
Published 28 September 2015
The last gasp of the old-style start-up from one of the last new IBA companies
Published 22 September 2015
Associated-Rediffusion starts the day with pomp and circumstance
Published 14 September 2015
Start each day with the north-eastern Scotland contractor
Published 7 September 2015
What to do when the network goes down and you have to improvise
Published 18 August 2015
In the Midlands and the North, the ultimate TV station starts the day
Published 2 December 2006
Roddy Buxton plunges into the TBS archives one more time.
Published 2 November 2006
Roddy Buxton continues his trawl through the Transdiffusion archives
Published 1 October 2006
Roddy continues his journey through the Transdiffusion archives.
Published 2 September 2006
Roddy Buxton looks into the TBS basement files
Published 1 June 2003
How Associated Rediffusion started the day in its first few months
Published 1 January 2003
Folk medleys defined many aspects of start-up music, says Richard Elen
Published 1 January 2002
Richard Elen has been searching for 35 years for one tune
Published 1 January 2002
How presentation – and daily start-ups – provided the full stops and commas of TV
Published 1 January 2002
Bureaucracy, slow and deliberate, creates a new art form
Published 1 January 2002
Constant and unchanging – an environment where branding was king
Published 1 September 2001
Gavin Sutherland reconstructs the most famous ITV start-up
Published 1 September 2001
Gavin Sutherland on the composer of Three Rivers Fantasy