Features
Will TV-am be a success? Peter Jay says yes. Others tell the Sunday Express Magazine in 1981 that it's a disaster in the making
Champagne Breakfast
The BBC's new programme Breakfast Time has launched and the staff newspaper is full of praise
The fall and rise of TV-am
As TV-am finally overtakes BBC Breakfast Time, the TVTimes takes a look back at the tumultuous first 3 years
Breakfast television or a tele-documentary about radio?
An experiment joins BBC Radio Scotland and BBC-1 Scotland in 1981
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Stuart Hood looks at America
Rediffusion’s controller of programmes heads to the States to see what network television is up to
Can Independent Television Stimulate Earning?
Will the arrival of commercial television give a boost to the economy?
New channels of choice
Just one more push and cable television will catch on, says the president of the Cable Television Association of Great Britain
Norway must wait four years for television
Norway starts work on developing television… slowly and cautiously
Alexandra Palace: Battle of the beams
When Ally Pally went dark in 1939, it still had an important use
Satellvision is coming
Rediffusion’s assistant controller of programmes (engineering) looks at the technical issues of television by satellite
Calling All Nations VI: Some technical and practical points
A guide to how the BBC’s signals get from the UK to the world, for the layman and censored for the enemy
Will the Royal Family live to regret that film?
Cameras followed the Queen for a year and the monarchy may never recover
Farewell Didsbury
ABC’s head of light entertainment looks back at 12 years of the company’s northern studios
Sailing bye…
A long wave goodbye to the snap, crackle and pop of 198kHz
Mining the archive
Innovative uses for archive material and forgotten programme formats
Judith Chalmers 1935—2026
An interview with BBCtv continuity announcer Judith Chalmers in 1961, taken from our archives upon the announcement of her death at the age of 90
