Articles about Television Wales and West

Settling into her new job on air at TWW, Maureen Staffer has some ideas for the presentation department.

It’s launch day for TWW in 1958

1958 approaches… has the corner turned for ITV?

The ITA reports on their biggest failure to date: the fall of Wales (West and North) Television in 1964

What goes on high above us all at TWW’s studios?

For researchers: source documents relating to TWW and Teledu Cymru from the Transdiffusion archives

TWW’s programme controller provides a rundown of forthcoming ITV programmes to the South Wales Argus in 1961

An introduction to television for Wales in 1966 / Cyflwyniad i deledu yng Nghymru yn 1966

An introduction to Independent Television in 1966

The Daily Mirror reports on the decisions taken by the ITA in the ITV franchise round of 1967

Celebrating 60 years of ITV in South Wales and the West

⧉ Have a look at TWW’s output in Welsh in 1960 in our new bilingual subsite

Inside a twice forgotten strange interlude

A look at what was on TWW and Teledu Cymru on Wednesday 26 July 1967

An interview from 2001 with Teledu Cymru continuity announcer and actress Iris Jones, republished upon her death on 29 June 2017

John Mead’s fun account of a life behind the camera is now available as an ebook

Magpie gets weird in 1967

A look at what was on TWW’s General Service on Sunday 23 January 1966

Teledu Cymru starts the day in 1965

Wales (West & North) Television’s dotty life

TWW’s last ever programme – in full

The trials of covering Wales and the west of England

Richard Jones speaks to Maureen Staffer, announcer and presenter for TWW

Remembering John Mead: the memoirs of the late actor, announcer, producer and director John Mead from when he joined TWW

Roddy Buxton plunges into the TBS archives one more time.

Richard Wyn Jones grew up with ITV in Wales… and loved every minute of it

Thomson buys ITV’s special effects unit TWW History

Regionalism restrained

Hard done by all

An ident used on-screen that never really took off

Russ J Graham on those who have been kicked out of ITV

…to two countries

Dafydd Hancock on the twists and turns before S4C

Richard Jones on Lord Hill vs TWW

Cameraman

Every new ITV company has reinvented the wheel

How ITV could have been done

Kif Bowden-Smith on the workings of an optional network