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The BBC and the Pilkington Committee
Published 16 June 2023
The BBC gets its response to the Pilkington Committee in early
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
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
The ITA transmitter network
Published 5 November 2021
Comparative maps of VHF and UHF coverage from the Independent Television Authority
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
Getting 2 colour
Published 25 July 2014
The BBC encourages us to tune our sets correctly for BBC-2 and colour in 1968