22 July 2022
The BBC tests NTSC colour on 405-lines for the benefit of MPs
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
3 February 2021
Get ready for something new: HTV West is about to launch with local programmes for local people
24 July 2020
Ten years of Grampian are celebrated by them going into colour in 1971
20 July 2020
The future of black-and-white is here: subjective colour
15 November 2019
It’s C-Day! The Controller of BBC-1 and an array of newspaper critics look at what colour will bring to the channel
5 July 2018
Lord Bernstein thinks that colour is a waste of money. The Daily Telegraph in 1969 does not
3 April 2018
The Daily Express is outraged in 1966 when the government announces there will be no colour on BBC-1 and ITV
12 June 2017
Colour comes to ITV, courtesy of tests done by ITA chief engineer Howard Steele
15 November 2016
The changes the make-up artists at Thames, Yorkshire and ATV had to make for the introduction of colour TV
25 July 2014
The BBC encourages us to tune our sets correctly for BBC-2 and colour in 1968