28 September 2023
You’re about to see the world from a very unusual angle: straight down!
11 September 2023
There was a time when nobody had ever heard their own voice. This machine could change all that
28 August 2023
Cable TV invites you to get the new BSB
31 July 2023
Instantaneous live OBs from anywhere in Europe? With the Orbital Test Satellite, it could be coming soon
24 July 2023
A hi-tech TV experiment creates a village in Lancashire with an amazing choice of 30 TV channels
15 May 2023
The trials of getting television pictures from far away outside broadcasts back to the studio
13 May 2023
A new control room for live continental broadcasting exchange opens in Broadcasting House
10 April 2023
Technological developments abound at the IBA: teletext, satellites, standards conversion and much more
6 February 2023
New technology sweeps ITV, with ENG, computer editing and ½-inch tape at the fore
21 December 2022
It sounds amazing, but one day soon we could all be watching television that arrives at our homes from a satellite
30 November 2022
Bill Cotton, recently promoted to head up the BBC’s future multichannels policy, on what he’s expecting by the year 2000
5 October 2022
A tiny company serves the largest area thanks to modern technology
8 August 2022
The most common things that go wrong with your television set – and how to fix them
1 August 2022
The head of BBC home video offers his advice to those about to get their first VCR
15 April 2022
A trip to Kingswood Warren to see how the BBC Research Department is keeping ahead of technological developments
1 November 2021
Make sure your television set is fully adjusted to improve your viewing
1 February 2021
Will television have an effect on voters at election time? Leeds University plan to find out, using an ‘electronic brain’ in 1959
18 November 2020
Will it ever be possible to exchange television across the Atlantic? Bell Laboratories have a plan to lay a cable in 1955
9 September 2020
Anglia Television is about to come on air, meaning lots of technical developments
24 June 2019
It’s almost S-night! With ITV about to convert from 405 to 625, the technology correspondent of the Sunday Times looks into what’s involved
28 January 2019
From doing the cinema live to doing the stage on video, television’s mise en scène keeps changing… whilst still staying the same
6 December 2018
The first geostationary satellite linking Europe and North America goes into service in 1965
17 September 2018
A radio reviewer looks on incredulously at the coming of television to the United States in 1935
10 September 2018
Practical Television in 1962 gives advice on how to receive European television in the UK: grab your soldering iron
20 August 2018
‘Professor’ A M Low explains to people who want the new ITV in 1955 just why they’ve got to change aerials and TV sets
19 July 2018
A simplified guide to how the pictures get from the studio to the transmitter to your home from 1966
11 June 2018
How Central’s new £15 million television centre in Birmingham uses state-of-the-art technology to put the ‘broad’ in broadcasting in 1996
26 March 2018
The IBA introduces its experimental ‘Oracle’ service in the early 1970s
8 March 2018
Showing filmed material on television is difficult, as these 1956 instructions prove
5 July 2017
Television cameras around the home, recording their every move? 1962 celebrities say yes please!
15 May 2017
Your guide to the latest television designs on display at Earls Court in 1955
24 April 2017
A 1963 guide to the options available for 625 lines, colour and ITV-2
17 April 2017
A 1963 discussion of how to use the tuning signal to get perfect 405-line VHF black and white pictures
16 January 2017
The BBC in 1986 details what went wrong with the planned BBC/IBA satellite service
24 May 2016
Dan Farrimond takes a trip to Republica in Berlin to experience a teletext block party