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240, 405, 625, 1080… GO!

Published 31 December 2022

Geoff Nash tries to explain 2023’s TV technology to a 1936 viewer

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

UHF television coverage

Published 24 December 2022

UHF coverage maps for ITV in 1979

Thirty Productive Acres

Published 15 April 2022

A trip to Kingswood Warren to see how the BBC Research Department is keeping ahead of technological developments

5@25

Published 31 March 2022

Happy birthday to the UK’s 5th channel

The ITA transmitter network

Published 5 November 2021

Comparative maps of VHF and UHF coverage from the Independent Television Authority

BBC-2 opens

Published 20 August 2021

It’s (almost) here! Get ready for the launch of BBC-2

A year of decisions

Published 6 August 2021

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

New television standards: effect on British television

Published 19 February 2021

An upgrade from 405-lines to 625-lines is not enough on its own to get people to buy or rent new sets, says the BBC’s DC Birkinshaw in 1959

Colour TV from Aberdeen today marks decade of Grampian viewing

Published 24 July 2020

Ten years of Grampian are celebrated by them going into colour in 1971

ITA Colour is coming!

Published 20 May 2019

Colour… UHF… 625… Duplication… What the viewer needs to know in 1969

BBC-2 transmitting stations

Published 27 March 2018

BBC-2 transmitters in service and planned in 1968

A Solid Step Forward

Published 12 March 2018

A look at how IBA transmitters were going solid-state in 1975

How to receive BBC-2

Published 22 May 2017

BBC-2 is on its way to the north of England. This 1965 leaflet tells you all you need to know about receiving it

The plain man’s guide to the changeover to 625 line TV

Published 24 April 2017

A 1963 guide to the options available for 625 lines, colour and ITV-2

Relay race

Published 10 November 2014

Comparing VHF and UHF

Getting 2 colour

Published 25 July 2014

The BBC encourages us to tune our sets correctly for BBC-2 and colour in 1968

VHF off

Published 1 September 2001

The joys of 405-line television

A member of the Transdiffusion Broadcasting System
Liverpool, Monday 5 June 2023