Articles about Sutton Coldfield

The trials of getting television pictures from far away outside broadcasts back to the studio

Never mind how or what we’ll be watching in the year 2000: it’s time for TV to ditch cliché and resist Americanisation

Television comes to the Midlands in 1949 and here’s all you need to know about the new Sutton Coldfield transmitter

The traffic stops as BBC-2 stumbles into colour…

Commercial television launches in London tonight – but how will that affect the people of Banbury?

From doing the cinema live to doing the stage on video, television’s mise en scène keeps changing… whilst still staying the same

David Attenborough looks back at a year of BBC-2 in colour

The Radio Times explains the technical achievements in building the Sutton Coldfield transmitter in 1949

A tour around the bits in between the testcards

Television arrives in the Midlands in 1949