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This is https://www.transdiffusion.org/, the independent broadcasting authority since 1964. A huge collection of old TV, radio & advertising archives, articles and more.

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NEW BBC STUDIOS AT MAIDA VALE (1935)

The long-awaited expansion of Maida Vale opens in 1935

https://transdiffusion.org/2024/06/07/new-bbc-studios-at-maida-vale/

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SPOTLIGHT 1971: CHANNEL

About Channel Television and the Channel Islands’ transmitter :ctv:

Fremont Point information
Channel TV information

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POSTE PARISIEN (1935)

Your weekend long read is a look at the studios and transmitter of the first French private radio station

https://transdiffusion.org/2024/05/24/poste-parisien/

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The Grauniad have a column today https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/13/tv-episode-black-britain-gay-history about the difficulties of finding really quite recent programmes in the messy Channel 4 archives.

That's been our writers' experience too, as reported for us in April https://transdiffusion.org/2023/04/14/whatever-happened-to-the-channel-4-archive/

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FROM THE NORTH, THIS IS GRANADA

Our new subsite with 250 articles about TV's studios, people and programmes from the pan-North 5-day era 1956-1968

https://granadatv.network/

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INTRODUCING RADIO CAROLINE

The most famous 'pirate' radio station introduces itself in 1964.

https://caroline.retropia.co.uk/

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KENNY THE KIDDER

Probably the greatest maker of radio Britain ever created... especially when the devil got into him!

https://transdiffusion.org/2015/09/03/kenny-the-kidder/

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Radio Caroline turns 60 today! Happy everybody!

Take a look at the offshore stations around the UK at their peak in 1966…

https://transdiffusion.org/2018/04/02/pirate-radios-the-storm-is-about-to-break/

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How to tune in to BBC Radio Merseyside (in the 1980s, at least).

Tuning guide for Radio Merseyside

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How to tune in to BBC Radio Solway (remember them?)

Tuning guide for Radio Solway

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Can we find the tape we had in our hands yesterday and desperately need today? Can we buffalo.

But we can find this still-wrapped suite of productivity software for our ZX81 (last used in May 1982), so there’s that.

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How to tune in to BBC Radio Stoke-on-Trent (in the 1980s, at least).

Tuning guide for BBC Radio Stoke-on-Trent

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Late Night Line Up in 1966, presented by Joan Crumpet – the thinking man's Bakewell – on The Magic Roundabout. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKj1bg-qtEY

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BBC Four celebrates 50 years of Bagpuss tonight with an evening of children's TV features (all repeats). https://www.bbc.co.uk/schedules/p00fzl6b

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Tom Baker is 90 today!

Kif was in London in the 80s recording station announcements for British Rail. In the next booth doing ad voiceovers is Tom Baker.

Tea break:

Tom: DO YOU BUY ANY OF THE THINGS I ADVERTISE, YOUNG SIR?

Kif: Er, no, not really.

Tom: GOOD, THEY'RE ALL RUBBISH, YOU KNOW.

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NEWSGIRLS WHO DON’T ENVY ANNA

Anna Ford has become famous at ITN. But what about the other ‘girls’ at your local ITV station?

https://transdiffusion.org/2023/09/25/newsgirls-who-dont-envy-anna/

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Teletext... on Philips' long dead Digital Compact Cassette.

cc @grim_fandango

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJSlkNbpPsM

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Here, have some stickers to put on your 33 years ago.

Alt text: https://transdiffusion.org/2023/08/27/a-guide-to-bbc-radio-in-the-90s/

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as one of the "Big Six" who had been signed up for presenting on the new TV-am in 1983.

The others were David Frost, Robert Key, Angela Rippon, Anna Ford and Esther Rantzen.

https://transdiffusion.org/2022/09/22/how-the-new-look-will-change-itv/

Cover of the terrible 'NOW!' magazine: Frost, unknown, obscured, Jay, Parky, Ford.

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Character actress Doreen Mantle, who you may remember from everything, has died.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-66456002

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advertises itself in 1988.

(There's a lot of text in these images, so the alt text can be found at https://transdiffusion.org/2023/07/25/we-make-television-worth-watching/ in HTML format)

See https://transdiffusion.org/2023/07/25/we-make-television-worth-watching/ for alt text

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18 HOURS OF OLD FILMS IN ONE WEEK’S VIEWING IS MUCH TOO MUCH

Milton Shulman lets himself go

http://my1960s.com/shulman/18-hours-of-old-films-in-one-weeks-viewing-is-much-too-much/

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@KecskeBak Jackanory: the BBC had got Caroline Benn, teacher and coincidentally wife of the PMG, in to read a story. A letter to The Stage published on 26 May 1966:

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@Sloanysoft @KecskeBak It's been interesting to see how the level of information provided by newspapers on their correspondents has decreased over time. In the 1960s it was normal to print a full name and address so that other people could reply directly. By the 1980s it was a name and town. By the 2000s, just a name. Now it's often a handle or even a "name withheld". We can surmise a lot about the development of quality of discourse on controversial matters over this time.

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@Sloanysoft @KecskeBak Also, local (and sometimes national!) newspaper articles about celebrities well into the 1960s would often say in passing "ATV announcer Mrs Famous-Woman, of 33 Acacia Grove in Walsall, is now appearing in Emergency - Ward 10 as well as Crossroads" and the like, and then add, randomly, "Mrs Famous-Woman shops at the Finefare in Brownhills and visits her sister in Cheesemonger Road, Fullbrook, every Wednesday" and, nowadays, that's all terrifying.

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