History

One of Sky TV’s many launches

Never mind how or what we’ll be watching in the year 2000: it’s time for TV to ditch cliché and resist Americanisation

Examining Granada’s 13-part series looking at Television

Disaster strikes television development as the Crystal Palace burns down

In a wrenching break with the established order of things, the TVTimes in 1956 asks what women really want from television. Don’t worry, though: nobody listened

The BBC Handbook for 1938 looks back at the first year of television

The people behind the Pilkington Report

The BBC’s senior superintendent engineer gives us a peek into the future of TV: pay-per-view… in 1954

From the late 80s to the present

The OU and beyond

The history of educational TV

The beginning of ITV – in sound & vision

One of the most radical changes to hit the ITV network

Sky was not the first…

From the early days of ITV & C4

More classic ads

More classic ads

Confusion surrounding TV aspect ratios has all happened before…

Video recording is not new. In fact it goes back a very long way.

What was it like to buy a TV over 50 years ago?

Thanks to John Logie Baird, ITV nearly arrived 50 years early

JLB pioneers television – but John Reith needs convincing