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Articles about VHF

Local radio, wavelengths and Radio 1

Published 16 September 2022

Giving the BBC’s wavelengths to commercial radio doesn’t create competition, it just makes a different monopoly, says Ian Trethowan

BBC Studiolympia News

Published 6 September 2022

A souvenir of your visit to the Ideal Home Show in March 1965

BBC transmitters in 1965/6

Published 15 August 2022

BBC Technical Information maps of VHF and MW transmitters

BBC VHF-FM transmitters in 1974

Published 24 May 2022

Your cut-out n’ keep guide to tuning into the three BBC FM services – some now in stereo! – in the UK

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

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

Your own radio station

Published 15 November 2018

BBC Local Radio is coming: what’s in it for you?

A Solid Step Forward

Published 12 March 2018

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

Relay race

Published 10 November 2014

Comparing VHF and UHF

A member of the Transdiffusion Broadcasting System
Liverpool, Monday 20 March 2023