International

Television prepares for its greatest triumph, to reach out beyond the frontiers of Europe and bring you instantaneous sights and sounds from six different countries

The story of Sweden’s DX-TV champion

A colour outside broadcast unit from America makes its way behind the iron curtain

As the cable revolution spreads in the US, a new tier of channels starts to appear… ones you have to pay for. Will this ever catch on?

The curious case of pornography on cable television in the US in 1975

Telefís Éireann is ready to launch. A local paper in Dundalk takes us through what to look out for

Has Germany beaten Britain to television in 1936?

Television pictures get from Rome to Copenhagen, Paris, Bonn, Hilversum and London in an exciting new development in 1954

Rediffusion seconded their assistant head of casting to ATN 7 in Melbourne in 1967. Here she reports back on the television scene in Australia

The grand opening of NBC’s new colour studios in Burbank, California, is celebrated by the ‘NBC Chimes’ staff magazine in 1955

The first murder ever seen live on television

A life – and death – lived on television

Four members of the ACTT union go on a trip to East Germany in 1960 and like what they find

ITN’s News Editor Mark Andrews is shocked by Barbara Walters in 1976

The Italians have really taken to television, writes the TVTimes in 1956

Burton Paulu on how television and radio was organised under Communism in Europe in 1967

Radio Times looks forward to tonight’s Eurovision Song Contest… in 1968

Inside the technical developments pioneered by the European Broadcasting Union in 1967

Television in the People’s Republic of China in 1979

Is the voice of the radical right ruining America, asks TV Guide in 1967

All it takes is $250,000, a lot of persistence and a sports director who won’t hyperventilate on camera

A 1955 look-back at the exciting developments so far in international broadcasting in Europe

A representative from ‘Novosti’ gets to see ITV in 1961

In 1972, TV Guide asks if cable television will catch on in the US by offering original programming

The development of intercontinental satellite television

What was on East German television in November 1966?

An email to the local PBS stations leads to 60 seconds of fame

How a small Slovenian TV station changed the face of Italian broadcasting

Berlin goes digital – quickly

East Germany and counter-propaganda

Hungary goes its own way

US presentation

Netherlands television collapses the government

Daily start-ups

USA does have television presentation

Australian television development means no regionalism

France in times of revolution