Articles about starting the day

Stewart White brings Central Television on the air in 1982 for schools programmes

Six articles to read to keep your mind alert during the lockdown

HTV starts the day in 1973

CHANNEL TELEVISION AT 60 • Channel Television starts the day in 1962

Granada Television starts the day on the evening of its new 7-day contract

Ulster Television starts the day one morning in 1978

Harlech starts the day one evening in 1968

The musical habits of a lifetime

CHANNEL TELEVISION AT 60 • Channel Television starts the day in 1974… in black and white

An unpopular war in the Middle East forces a change of identity for the biggest ITV company

Thames swings into colour

ATV Midlands starts the day with a rousing tune and a pretty slide

The ultimate startup from the backbone of ITV

Combining ABC and Rediffusion the opposite way to Thames

Thames keeps up the traditions set by ABC Television

The last gasp of the old-style start-up from one of the last new IBA companies

Start each day with the north-eastern Scotland contractor

What to do when the network goes down and you have to improvise

From the North and showing it – Granada shows its roots

The cuckoo in the nest re-invents the daily start up

In the Midlands and the North, the ultimate TV station starts the day

Here’s a story and a half. Back in 2006 Mark Damazer, then controller of BBC Radio 4, axed the piece of music that had heralded the start of the broadcasting…

Roddy Buxton plunges into the TBS archives one more time.

Roddy Buxton continues his trawl through the Transdiffusion archives

Roddy continues his journey through the Transdiffusion archives.

Roddy Buxton looks into the TBS basement files

The Tyne Tees way

How Associated Rediffusion started the day in its first few months

An insiders view of the end of LWT

The early days of start-ups on Associated Rediffusion

How two Transdiffusion contributors made LWT’s last day

Getting up early for the last day of LWT

An independent view of LWT’s last day

How presentation – and daily start-ups – provided the full stops and commas of TV

Bureaucracy, slow and deliberate, creates a new art form

Constant and unchanging – an environment where branding was king