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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.
Engineering Progress (1980)

Anglia Television celebrates 21 years of technical excellence
Engineering Progress
Anglia Television celebrates 21 years of technical excellence
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November 24, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Is TV doing God any good? (1968)

Cabinet ministers have called for more politics on TV in 1968. Grumpy critic Milton Shulman says what we need is less Christianity
Is TV doing God any good? - THIS IS MY 1960s from Transdiffusion
Cabinet ministers have called for more politics on TV. Grumpy critic Milton Shulman says what we need is less Christianity
my1960s.com
November 23, 2025 at 4:51 PM
As episode 2 of the new "Doctor Who" serial goes out on BBCtv tonight (following a repeat of episode 1), Dennis Potter recommends readers of the Daily Herald tune in. #DoctorWhoDay
I won’t say no to Dr. Who
Episode 2 of a new serial of adventures in time and space goes out tonight and Dennis Potter is looking forward to it
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November 23, 2025 at 2:50 PM
A cute story from the BBC's staff magazine Ariel in February 1965. #doctorwhoday
November 23, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Happy Doctor Who Day!
November 23, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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I highly recommend this entire thread, not just the initial link.
It was 62 years ago #OnThisDay in 1963 that President John F. Kennedy was assassinated.

Here's a piece I wrote for the History of the BBC website a couple of years ago about how the BBC covered the news.

I'm quite pleased with this one...

www.bbc.com/historyofthe...
Breaking news - November 1963
BBC History recalls one of the first truly global news stories of the modern multi-media age
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November 22, 2025 at 7:31 PM
A World Listened and Watched (1963)

'Broadcasting' magazine reviews how the four American networks (ABC, CBS, NBC and Mutual) covered the assassination of President Kennedy
A World Listened and Watched
How the four American networks - ABC, CBS, Mutual and NBC - covered the assassination of President Kennedy
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November 22, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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The entire BBC local news network went to pieces on Wednesday: youtu.be/KLjLeG7_oNE?...
Blooper: All BBC nations and regions end news bulletin early due to timing error (19 November 2025)
YouTube video by bax's archive
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November 21, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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God *damn* this was hard to film
November 16, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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Andrew Wood, the man who devised the iconic gameshow Bullseye, has died, his daughter Laura has confirmed.
November 19, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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A (horrible) alternate reality, inspired by yesterday.
#Cloudflare #Teletext #TeletextArt #Art
November 19, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Creepie-Peepie (1958)

What effect will CSF Portable Television Camera Equipment have on Associated-Rediffusion?
Creepie-Peepie » THIS IS REDIFFUSION from Transdiffusion
What effect will CSF Portable Television Camera Equipment have on Associated-Rediffusion?
rediffusion.london
November 19, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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Manchester Central Library is appealing for missing Piccadilly Radio tapes to help complete its digital archive of historic shows
Central Library calls for missing Piccadilly Radio tapes
Manchester Central Library is appealing for missing Piccadilly Radio tapes to help complete its digital archive of historic shows
radiotoday.co.uk
November 17, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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It's the 321st day of the year today, so in celebration of this, here's the time that Ted Rogers opened the original version of the show "Uno, Dos, Tres" on Spanish TV, using the English 321 titles including the Yorkshire TV Ident zooming into Dusty Bin.

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Ted Rogers on TVE | Un, Dos, Tres... responda otra vez (24/09/1982)
YouTube video by BluetheFortune
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November 17, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Interestingly CEEFAX ran on a DEC PDP-11 back then. Are there any details as to what operating system it was running - RT-11, perhaps? And was the system ever replaced with something else prior to switch off?
November 17, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Happy "Thames Goes Colour Today in 1969" day to all who celebrate. Here's the postage-stamp sized sticker they put on their outgoing mail in the month or so before C-Day.
November 17, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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Interestingly CEEFAX ran on a DEC PDP-11 back then. Are there any details as to what operating system it was running - RT-11, perhaps? And was the system ever replaced with something else prior to switch off?
November 17, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Telesoftware (1982)

CEEFAX now lets you download software for your BBC Micro
Telesoftware
CEEFAX now lets you download software for your BBC Micro
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November 17, 2025 at 1:10 PM
The case of the vanishing viewer (1968)

Milton Shulman watches the decline in ITV viewership since the 1968 contract changes
The case of the vanishing viewer - THIS IS MY 1960s from Transdiffusion
Milton Shulman watches the decline in ITV viewership since the 1968 contract changes
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November 16, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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Not something I've seen until now, Thames using an obscure music video as filler before the ITN news summary... I've known Sky One to do the same years later, but never seen it with an ITV region before
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Thames Television Continuity - 11th August 1988
YouTube video by HalfbrickVHS
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November 14, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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One of the first editions of HTV’s Wales at Six with Mike Lloyd Williams and Sally Jones from 1982.

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Wales at Six
YouTube video by Archif Ddarlledu Cymru | Wales Broadcast Archive
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November 15, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Calling All Nations VI: Some technical and practical points (1943)

A guide to how the BBC’s signals get from the UK to the world, for the layman and censored for the enemy
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
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November 14, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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NUJ Scotland is to ballot its members at STV on strike action over job cuts and plans to merge its regional news programmes.

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NUJ members at STV to be balloted for strike action over significant cuts
Members of the National Union of Journalists working at STV are to be balloted for strike action over the proposed axing of the STV North edition of the News at 6, as well as associated compulsory red...
www.nuj.org.uk
November 11, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Quiet man of UTV (1959)

Meet William MacQuitty, managing director of the new Ulster Television
Quiet man of UTV
Meet William MacQuitty, managing director of the new Ulster Television
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November 10, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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From @rollvt.bsky.social’s fab YT channel…

A ‘Spotlight’ documentary from March 1991 looking ahead to UTV’s franchise battle.

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BBC NI Spotlight 'Changing Channels' - March 1991
YouTube video by Roll VT
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November 8, 2025 at 10:19 AM