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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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TRANSDIFFUSI⭕️N @transdiffusion.org · 2d
The complex world of Japanese TV (1967)

A professor of mass communications in Japan takes a look at how television is developing in his country
The complex world of Japanese TV
A professor of mass communications in Japan takes a look at how television is developing in his country
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TRANSDIFFUSI⭕️N @transdiffusion.org · 2d
The wonderful Hattie Jacques left us on this day in 1980. This advert is probably the last thing she ever recorded.
asda 1980 advert
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The complex world of Japanese TV (1967)

A professor of mass communications in Japan takes a look at how television is developing in his country
The complex world of Japanese TV
A professor of mass communications in Japan takes a look at how television is developing in his country
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Gareth Joy @lookoutwales2.bsky.social · 3d
A slice of BBC1 North from this day in October 1979.

In the Look North headlines, the hunt for the Yorkshire Ripper leads to a special appeal during the ITV strike.

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05 10 1979 BBC1 North Close Up North Late Look North National News Headlines
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TRANSDIFFUSI⭕️N @transdiffusion.org · 4d
The Daily Express gets itself all worked up today in 1997 because BBC-1 has got new idents.

So worked up that they fail to notice that "Tory MP David Shaw" appears to be ex-MP David Shaw, kicked out of Dover on an 11% swing back in April 1997.
Balloon goes up at BBC (for just £500,000 including inflation). THIS IS the striking balloon logo which, from 6am today, will launch a new image for BBC 1. Viewers will see the huge designed to look like a sphere, designed er 10 ditrerent globe, locations in Britain. The total cost of the balloon and the filming is £500,000 - part of a £5.1 million budget the BBC will spend over the next three years incorporating its new logo. When the plan was announced two months ago it caused controversy with critics branding the scheme a waste of licence payers' money. Gerald Kaufman, chair- man of the National Heritage Select Committee in the last Par-liament, said at the time: "It seems to me that there could be a more useful way licence payers' money.„ spending Tory MP David Shaw said: "This sounds like the most appalling waste of money." The BBC, however, claimed yesterday that the simpler logo will produce savings of about B £750,000 a year and pay for itself BIC ONE in eight years. spokesman said: "The purpose was to simplify and unify the logo which will save time and money. Alan Yentob, the BBC's director of television, also said the new logo would be more cost effective. He added: "I do believe this is a memorable image which will allow the channel to embrace the whole of the UK." Pam Masters, the director of broadcasting and presentation. said the new logo would continue into the next century. She said: "The existing one was never ideal for on-screen use and this updated one is aimed at improving the overall visual image of the BBC." Design consultant Martin Lambie-Nairn worked with Ms Masters and creative director Dave Howe to produce the new image. They filmed over six weeks during the summer, choosing two locations in Scotland, two in Wales, two in Northern Ireland and four in England: In England, the balloon is seen hovering over the South Downs, gliding past endless rows of containers at the port of Felixstowe, floating over the Swinside Stone Circle in Cumbria and also Canary Wharf in London's Docklands. In Scotland, the balloon is filmed through the distinctive red steel framework of the Forth Bridge. It is also seen at Eilean Donan Castle, with the continent of Africa surrealistically hovering over Loch Duich. Cardiff City Hall and the towering slopes of Snowdon are the two locations in Wales. One of the Northern Ireland sites, Strandford Loch, is among the province's most famous beauty spots. The second loca-tion, Grey Abbey, stands on the same loch. The idea of using sites around the UK is to emphasise the national character of the BBC's main television channel. The images will mostly be seen in the countries where they were filmed but viewers will be shown all of them over a period of time. BBC bosses also hope to use the balloon at major events to promote the corporation.
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TRANSDIFFUSI⭕️N @transdiffusion.org · 7d
Very definitely a birthday present and not entirely a complete coincidence *at all*.
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Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 8d
Advance notice that The Golden Age Of Children's TV is out in paperback on 23rd October... and yes it does now mention Freetime with Mick Robertson.

Despite a couple of snippy reviews I'm quite pleased with how this has gone down so if you haven't got it yet...

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The Golden Age Of Children’s TV
Do you live in a town? Was it Bill or was it Ben? Who is The Phantom Phlan Plinger? Can you guess what is in it today? Why don’t you just switch off your television set and go out and do something …
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TRANSDIFFUSI⭕️N @transdiffusion.org · 8d
a man in a black shirt is standing in front of a wall with flowers on it and smiling .
Alt: OH YOU! 🙂
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Kat Kayelem 🏳️‍⚧️ @kayelem23.bsky.social · 8d
Wonder what happened to the Ligth Programme..?
Close-up photo of the tuning scale of a 'Carmen 3' valve radio, made by Electronica in Romania, dating from roughly the mid-sixties. The tuning scale has typical station markings; 'Hilversum', 'Welsh', 'Luxembourg' etc. And 'Ligth'.
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Jeremy Rogers @jezmrogers.bsky.social · 8d
Network Three & later the Music Programme were in part BBC defences against a perceived threat that as the Third Programme only occupied a few hours at night the frequencies could always be removed at least during daytime & used for a commercial station. The money for these extra services was scant.
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TRANSDIFFUSI⭕️N @transdiffusion.org · 8d
Happy birthday to BBC Network Three, born on this day in 1957. Network Three will be something of an odd-sock drawer, picking up things like adult education and sport that don't fit well on the Home Service, Light Programme or Third Programme, and is pitched as being a station for people's hobbies.
Cover of the Radio Times advertising "the new pattern in sound broadcasting" Lindsay Wellington, Director of Sound Broadcasting, explains how the existing networks are also being shaken up to bring them closer to the remit they have drifted from in the past decade. The Home Service and Network Three explained. The Third Programme and the Light Programme explained.
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TRANSDIFFUSI⭕️N @transdiffusion.org · 8d
Yep, more or less!
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TRANSDIFFUSI⭕️N @transdiffusion.org · 8d
Happy birthday to the new BBC radio networks, launched today in 1967. Part-time station BBC Radio 1 does pop; 2 takes on the Light Programme, the Third Programme, Network Three and the Third Network become Radio 3, and the Home Service becomes 4.

Needless to say, Radio 1 gets all the publicity.
Cover of the Radio Times, featuring a woman dancing in a Radio 1 shift dress. Your first weekend on Radio 1, says the Radio Times. Tony Blackburn, Keith Skues, Emperor Rosco, Chris Denning (yes, we know), Pete Murray, Pete Brady, Johnny Moran, Mike Raven, Pete Drummond, Michael Aspel, Ed Stewart. Be a Radio 1-upman!
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TRANSDIFFUSI⭕️N @transdiffusion.org · 8d
30 September 1961. The Northern Scot reports that Elgin Town Council have decided – late in the day and reluctantly – that council tenants can put up aerials for the new Grampian TV which launches today... as long as they take them down immediately when the CATV system is upgraded.
GO-AHEAD GIVEN FOR ITV AERIALS COUNCIL GRANT PERMISSION TO TENANTS PERMISSION for the erection of aerials to receive Grampian" television transmissions is to be given to Elgin municipal tenants. This is on the understanding that in the event of other channels being developed in the future, no further aerials or additions to aerials will be permitted.
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TRANSDIFFUSI⭕️N @transdiffusion.org · 8d
Happy birthday to BBC Network Three, born on this day in 1957. Network Three will be something of an odd-sock drawer, picking up things like adult education and sport that don't fit well on the Home Service, Light Programme or Third Programme, and is pitched as being a station for people's hobbies.
Cover of the Radio Times advertising "the new pattern in sound broadcasting" Lindsay Wellington, Director of Sound Broadcasting, explains how the existing networks are also being shaken up to bring them closer to the remit they have drifted from in the past decade. The Home Service and Network Three explained. The Third Programme and the Light Programme explained.
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TRANSDIFFUSI⭕️N @transdiffusion.org · 8d
The renaming/numbering of the BBC radio networks today in 1967 was a late decision. Here, a month or two earlier, Kenny Everett does a promo for the new BBC Radio 1 under its planned launch name: BBC Radio 247.
BBC Radio 247 promo
Kenny Everett counts down to the launch of BBC Radio 247 in September 1967
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TRANSDIFFUSI⭕️N @transdiffusion.org · 8d
If the text here is too tiny, you can read it in HTML-o-Vision over at my1960s.com/music-and-ra...
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TRANSDIFFUSI⭕️N @transdiffusion.org · 8d
A year in, and the Radio Times celebrates Radio 1 and Radio 2 and looks forward to even more poptastic adventures in 1969.
Radio 1 is one! Dave Cash, Tony Blackburn, Kenny Everett. Radio 1 is one! John Peel, Ed Stewart, Mike Raven, Emperor Rosco, Stuart Henry. The year ahead in Radio 1 and 2. Ray Moore, John Dunn, Paul Hollingdale, Chris Denning (yes, we know). Radio 1 is one! Jimmy Savile (yes, we know), Alan Freeman, Jimmy Young, Keith Skues, Pete Murray. Radio 2 is one too! Sam Costa.
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TRANSDIFFUSI⭕️N @transdiffusion.org · 8d
Launch night of the new BBC Radio 1 and BBC Radio 2. Kenneth Horne takes us through what you can expect from the two new networks. Music edited out - in places, literally with scissors at the time, we were kids. Also gone is the Michael Parkinson sports monologue. Sorry.
Spotlight 1 and 2, 30 September 1967
Launch night of the new BBC Radio 1 and BBC Radio 2. Kenneth Horne takes us through what you can expect from the two new networks. Music edited out - in places, literally with scissors at the time. Al
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TRANSDIFFUSI⭕️N @transdiffusion.org · 8d
Happy birthday to the new BBC radio networks, launched today in 1967. Part-time station BBC Radio 1 does pop; 2 takes on the Light Programme, the Third Programme, Network Three and the Third Network become Radio 3, and the Home Service becomes 4.

Needless to say, Radio 1 gets all the publicity.
Cover of the Radio Times, featuring a woman dancing in a Radio 1 shift dress. Your first weekend on Radio 1, says the Radio Times. Tony Blackburn, Keith Skues, Emperor Rosco, Chris Denning (yes, we know), Pete Murray, Pete Brady, Johnny Moran, Mike Raven, Pete Drummond, Michael Aspel, Ed Stewart. Be a Radio 1-upman!
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TRANSDIFFUSI⭕️N @transdiffusion.org · 8d
Therefore there was:

• the Third Programme (highbrow speech and music)
• Network Three (odd-sock drawer)
• the Third Network (Third, Three and Test Match Special)

The ultimate survivor, of course, was the BBC Music Programme, launched in 1964, which eventually ate all of them and became Radio 3.
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TRANSDIFFUSI⭕️N @transdiffusion.org · 8d
It got worse. The sections of Network Three were considered individual stations in their own right (Study Session, the Music Programme etc) so the frequency could have 4 "stations" running on it during one day.
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TRANSDIFFUSI⭕️N @transdiffusion.org · 8d
30 September 1961. The Northern Scot reports that Elgin Town Council have decided – late in the day and reluctantly – that council tenants can put up aerials for the new Grampian TV which launches today... as long as they take them down immediately when the CATV system is upgraded.
GO-AHEAD GIVEN FOR ITV AERIALS COUNCIL GRANT PERMISSION TO TENANTS PERMISSION for the erection of aerials to receive Grampian" television transmissions is to be given to Elgin municipal tenants. This is on the understanding that in the event of other channels being developed in the future, no further aerials or additions to aerials will be permitted.
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TRANSDIFFUSI⭕️N @transdiffusion.org · 8d
Happy birthday to BBC Network Three, born on this day in 1957. Network Three will be something of an odd-sock drawer, picking up things like adult education and sport that don't fit well on the Home Service, Light Programme or Third Programme, and is pitched as being a station for people's hobbies.
Cover of the Radio Times advertising "the new pattern in sound broadcasting" Lindsay Wellington, Director of Sound Broadcasting, explains how the existing networks are also being shaken up to bring them closer to the remit they have drifted from in the past decade. The Home Service and Network Three explained. The Third Programme and the Light Programme explained.
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TRANSDIFFUSI⭕️N @transdiffusion.org · 10d
Back in 1974, here's the P&J's listings for 23 September. Correct typeface for Grampian and... well, shall we call it a "game stab" at the STV logo of the time?
TV listings.
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TRANSDIFFUSI⭕️N @transdiffusion.org · 10d
On this day in 1946, a new BBC radio station opened – the highbrow Third Programme.
Radio Times cover for the launch of the Third Programme. First evening's listings for the Third Programme. How To Listen; Bach; Reflections on World Affairs; Choral and Orchestral Concert; introductory talk by Sir William Haley; back to the concert; Living Opinion; Madrigals by Monteverdi; The Best of Yesterday; epilogue. A page from the Radio Times. The Third Programme intends to set a high standard in its choice of broadcasts of music, drama, and speech, and to achieve the highest available level of performance. It is ... For the Alert and Receptive Listener.
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