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Progress in engineering

Published 10 April 2023

Technological developments abound at the IBA: teletext, satellites, standards conversion and much more

Broadcasting in Britain: New Dimensions in Broadcasting – Colour and Stereophony

Published 30 December 2022

Part six of a brief technical history of broadcasting in Britain

The State Funeral of Sir Winston Churchill on the BBC

Published 18 September 2022

Behind the scenes photographs of the BBC’s biggest OB

Telstar

Published 7 January 2022

The future is here: television across the Atlantic thanks to a satellite

A year of decisions

Published 6 August 2021

The BBC looks back at a momentous year for technology and broadcasting

Project Telstar: Communications Experiment

Published 29 January 2021

A detailed, technical exploration of the Telstar satellite from 1962

TV cable across Atlantic?

Published 18 November 2020

Will it ever be possible to exchange television across the Atlantic? Bell Laboratories have a plan to lay a cable in 1955

‘Early Bird’ spreads its wings

Published 6 December 2018

The first geostationary satellite linking Europe and North America goes into service in 1965

Milestones

Published 6 October 2018

Pete Singleton remembers his personal 1964

The BBC since 1958

Published 19 March 2018

Sir Hugh Carleton Greene’s valedictory message to the BBC and the audience after he was pushed out as Director-General in late 1968

Eye in the sky

Published 26 June 2014

The development of intercontinental satellite television

A member of the Transdiffusion Broadcasting System
Liverpool, Saturday 23 September 2023