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This is https://transdiffusion.org/, the independent broadcasting authority since 1964. A huge collection of television, radio & advertising archives, articles and more.
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Don't think this has been online in full before.
27 Days Before the Mast - Richard Whiteley reports on the collapse of the original Emley Moor mast and how its temporary replacement swung into operation.
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jDz...
27 Days Before the Mast - Richard Whiteley reports on the collapse of the original Emley Moor mast and how its temporary replacement swung into operation.
@transdiffusion.org @tvlive.site @whydontyoutube.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jDz...
Emley Moor TV mast collapse 1969
YouTube video by Retunerman
www.youtube.com
January 8, 2026 at 1:18 PM
Don't think this has been online in full before.
27 Days Before the Mast - Richard Whiteley reports on the collapse of the original Emley Moor mast and how its temporary replacement swung into operation.
@transdiffusion.org @tvlive.site @whydontyoutube.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jDz...
27 Days Before the Mast - Richard Whiteley reports on the collapse of the original Emley Moor mast and how its temporary replacement swung into operation.
@transdiffusion.org @tvlive.site @whydontyoutube.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jDz...
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A blog post to mark publication day, with a note of what Magic Rays of Light has cost me to date.
www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk/magic-rays-o...
www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk/magic-rays-o...
Magic Rays of Light, by the numbers - Illuminations
John Wyver writes: Publication day! And just in time, my copies of Magic Rays of Light: The Early Years of Television in Britain arrived yesterday. Unsurprisingly perhaps, I am thrilled. The book feel...
www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk
January 8, 2026 at 6:38 AM
A blog post to mark publication day, with a note of what Magic Rays of Light has cost me to date.
www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk/magic-rays-o...
www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk/magic-rays-o...
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Brand new on Dirty Feed:
I absolutely guarantee that you have not read this fact about The Peter Serafinowicz Show and The Butterfield Detective Agency sketch ANYWHERE else.
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I absolutely guarantee that you have not read this fact about The Peter Serafinowicz Show and The Butterfield Detective Agency sketch ANYWHERE else.
www.dirtyfeed.org/2026/01/ever...
January 1, 2026 at 10:59 AM
Brand new on Dirty Feed:
I absolutely guarantee that you have not read this fact about The Peter Serafinowicz Show and The Butterfield Detective Agency sketch ANYWHERE else.
www.dirtyfeed.org/2026/01/ever...
I absolutely guarantee that you have not read this fact about The Peter Serafinowicz Show and The Butterfield Detective Agency sketch ANYWHERE else.
www.dirtyfeed.org/2026/01/ever...
Happy new year from TBS and BBC Scotland. youtu.be/o-i7WlQkRfI?...
BBC Scotland's Auld Lang Syne
YouTube video by Transdiffusion Broadcasting System
youtu.be
January 1, 2026 at 12:30 AM
Happy new year from TBS and BBC Scotland. youtu.be/o-i7WlQkRfI?...
From the team at TBS Action-Central to all of you at home, cheers 🥂
January 1, 2026 at 12:26 AM
From the team at TBS Action-Central to all of you at home, cheers 🥂
Have a great 2026, Mariaje! x
January 1, 2026 at 12:22 AM
Have a great 2026, Mariaje! x
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New Year 1993 on ITV in the South and South East of England in a nutshell. @transdiffusion.org
December 31, 2025 at 7:39 PM
New Year 1993 on ITV in the South and South East of England in a nutshell. @transdiffusion.org
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That the BBC Television Service had an ordinary closedown on 1 September 1939, not a hurried one during a cartoon. This fact was so scandalously against received wisdom that Wikipedia editors spent over a month discussing it before deciding not to mention the wartime closedown at all.
December 31, 2025 at 5:26 PM
That the BBC Television Service had an ordinary closedown on 1 September 1939, not a hurried one during a cartoon. This fact was so scandalously against received wisdom that Wikipedia editors spent over a month discussing it before deciding not to mention the wartime closedown at all.
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🟥 REWIND | Output from the prototype hardware for the 1990s BBC One/BBC Two on-screen clocks is being livestreamed on YouTube today by its creator, Richard Russell.
The design being demoed emulates an antique clock face (not broadcast).
>> LINK: www.youtube.com/live/I0M9Ebh...
The design being demoed emulates an antique clock face (not broadcast).
>> LINK: www.youtube.com/live/I0M9Ebh...
GNAT Live Stream New Year's Eve
YouTube video by Richard Russell
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December 31, 2025 at 1:33 PM
🟥 REWIND | Output from the prototype hardware for the 1990s BBC One/BBC Two on-screen clocks is being livestreamed on YouTube today by its creator, Richard Russell.
The design being demoed emulates an antique clock face (not broadcast).
>> LINK: www.youtube.com/live/I0M9Ebh...
The design being demoed emulates an antique clock face (not broadcast).
>> LINK: www.youtube.com/live/I0M9Ebh...
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I’ve spent this morning morbidly watching the MTV channels close down and the final songs played were:
MTV Music - Video Killed the Radio Star (Buggles)
Club MTV - Don’t Stop the Music (Rihanna)
MTV 90s - Goodbye (Spice Girls)
MTV 80s - Together in Electric Dreams (Oakey and Moroder)
MTV Music - Video Killed the Radio Star (Buggles)
Club MTV - Don’t Stop the Music (Rihanna)
MTV 90s - Goodbye (Spice Girls)
MTV 80s - Together in Electric Dreams (Oakey and Moroder)
December 31, 2025 at 10:34 AM
I’ve spent this morning morbidly watching the MTV channels close down and the final songs played were:
MTV Music - Video Killed the Radio Star (Buggles)
Club MTV - Don’t Stop the Music (Rihanna)
MTV 90s - Goodbye (Spice Girls)
MTV 80s - Together in Electric Dreams (Oakey and Moroder)
MTV Music - Video Killed the Radio Star (Buggles)
Club MTV - Don’t Stop the Music (Rihanna)
MTV 90s - Goodbye (Spice Girls)
MTV 80s - Together in Electric Dreams (Oakey and Moroder)
The year TV showed it is not just a toy (1968)
Grumpy critic Milton Shulman looks back at the wider themes of 1968 on screen
my1960s.com/shulman/the-...
Grumpy critic Milton Shulman looks back at the wider themes of 1968 on screen
my1960s.com/shulman/the-...
The year TV showed it is not just a toy - THIS IS MY 1960s from Transdiffusion
Grumpy critic Milton Shulman looks back at the wider themes of 1968 on screen
my1960s.com
December 30, 2025 at 4:36 PM
The year TV showed it is not just a toy (1968)
Grumpy critic Milton Shulman looks back at the wider themes of 1968 on screen
my1960s.com/shulman/the-...
Grumpy critic Milton Shulman looks back at the wider themes of 1968 on screen
my1960s.com/shulman/the-...
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The penultimate - and suprisingly NSFW, missus - ATV Today* from this day in 1981.
* okay, the last proper one - the final edition was mostly played for laughs
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBWu...
* okay, the last proper one - the final edition was mostly played for laughs
@tvlive.site @whydontyoutube.bsky.social @transdiffusion.org @thetvroom.com @ukpres1.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBWu...
[720p/50p] ITV ATV | ATV Today and continuity | 30th December 1981
YouTube video by Sticky tape 'n' rust
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December 30, 2025 at 2:19 PM
The penultimate - and suprisingly NSFW, missus - ATV Today* from this day in 1981.
* okay, the last proper one - the final edition was mostly played for laughs
@tvlive.site @whydontyoutube.bsky.social @transdiffusion.org @thetvroom.com @ukpres1.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBWu...
* okay, the last proper one - the final edition was mostly played for laughs
@tvlive.site @whydontyoutube.bsky.social @transdiffusion.org @thetvroom.com @ukpres1.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBWu...
You have no idea how much we LOVE projects like this! Thank you!
December 28, 2025 at 4:36 PM
You have no idea how much we LOVE projects like this! Thank you!
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BLOG UPDATE! I've gone and made a full rundown of the fifty TV programmes that have been broadcast most frequently throughout 2025. With the bonus added prize of revealing which FOUR television programmes appeared on all four BBC channels in 2025. brokentv.uk/2025/12/28/t...
December 28, 2025 at 4:35 PM
BLOG UPDATE! I've gone and made a full rundown of the fifty TV programmes that have been broadcast most frequently throughout 2025. With the bonus added prize of revealing which FOUR television programmes appeared on all four BBC channels in 2025. brokentv.uk/2025/12/28/t...
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This isn't news to regular users of my online teletext viewer as it's been online for ages, but one of the channels has a service from this evening 40 years ago.
This was recovered from a VHS tape and every page painstakingly repaired and turned back into a packet stream
zxnet.co.uk/teletext/vie...
This was recovered from a VHS tape and every page painstakingly repaired and turned back into a packet stream
zxnet.co.uk/teletext/vie...
December 28, 2025 at 4:09 PM
This isn't news to regular users of my online teletext viewer as it's been online for ages, but one of the channels has a service from this evening 40 years ago.
This was recovered from a VHS tape and every page painstakingly repaired and turned back into a packet stream
zxnet.co.uk/teletext/vie...
This was recovered from a VHS tape and every page painstakingly repaired and turned back into a packet stream
zxnet.co.uk/teletext/vie...
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This is a great game... guess the country from the TV channel that's being live streamed.
www.tvguessr.garden
h/t to a user on @pres.cafe for this brilliant waste of time!
www.tvguessr.garden
h/t to a user on @pres.cafe for this brilliant waste of time!
TVGuessr - Guess the Country from Live TV
Watch live TV streams and guess the country of origin!
www.tvguessr.garden
December 26, 2025 at 4:00 PM
This is a great game... guess the country from the TV channel that's being live streamed.
www.tvguessr.garden
h/t to a user on @pres.cafe for this brilliant waste of time!
www.tvguessr.garden
h/t to a user on @pres.cafe for this brilliant waste of time!
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Don’t fancy 2025’s telly today? Need to hide from family for an hour or two?
Enjoy Christmas 1975 instead! 🎅🏻🎄
Open the PDF, click on a programme title and start streaming from various platforms.
visualmutterings.com/1975-christm...
Enjoy Christmas 1975 instead! 🎅🏻🎄
Open the PDF, click on a programme title and start streaming from various platforms.
visualmutterings.com/1975-christm...
December 25, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Don’t fancy 2025’s telly today? Need to hide from family for an hour or two?
Enjoy Christmas 1975 instead! 🎅🏻🎄
Open the PDF, click on a programme title and start streaming from various platforms.
visualmutterings.com/1975-christm...
Enjoy Christmas 1975 instead! 🎅🏻🎄
Open the PDF, click on a programme title and start streaming from various platforms.
visualmutterings.com/1975-christm...
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And for those interested in the ad breaks during what I uploaded of the review as well, I've uploaded them into a separate video a month ago
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The final 2 sets of ad breaks during the South Bank Show Arts Review is what makes up today's upload, notably featuring one from Nicorette about the dangers of smoking and a lighter version of Pliladelphia (as cream cheese)
The final 2 sets of ad breaks during the South Bank Show Arts Review is what makes up today's upload, notably featuring one from Nicorette about the dangers of smoking and a lighter version of Pliladelphia (as cream cheese)
December 25, 2025 at 1:19 PM
And for those interested in the ad breaks during what I uploaded of the review as well, I've uploaded them into a separate video a month ago
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@brokentv.uk
bsky.app/profile/tola...
@transdiffusion.org
@brokentv.uk
bsky.app/profile/tola...
And the accompanying Dankworth music. 🎶 Deck the hall with boughs of holly, Re-diff-u-sion Lo-on-don! soundcloud.com/transdiffusi...
Rediffusion Christmas ident 1967
Rediffusion's festive ident, recorded at Christmas in 1967
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December 25, 2025 at 1:11 AM
And the accompanying Dankworth music. 🎶 Deck the hall with boughs of holly, Re-diff-u-sion Lo-on-don! soundcloud.com/transdiffusi...
Merry Christmas! Here’s our tele-snap of Rediffusion celebrating the day back in the late 1960s, and @kecskebak.bsky.social’s wonderfully detailed reconstruction of it.
December 25, 2025 at 1:04 AM
Merry Christmas! Here’s our tele-snap of Rediffusion celebrating the day back in the late 1960s, and @kecskebak.bsky.social’s wonderfully detailed reconstruction of it.
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Merry Christmas!!!
In the first of a series of planned updates, sub-tv.co.uk has its Christmas jumper on and some snow falling :-)
In the first of a series of planned updates, sub-tv.co.uk has its Christmas jumper on and some snow falling :-)
December 25, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Merry Christmas!!!
In the first of a series of planned updates, sub-tv.co.uk has its Christmas jumper on and some snow falling :-)
In the first of a series of planned updates, sub-tv.co.uk has its Christmas jumper on and some snow falling :-)