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This is 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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HEREWARD AWAKES (1980) Independent Local Radio has arrived in Peterborough

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SPOTLIGHT 1971: BORDER Border Television and its transmitters

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Follow Wendell Spanswick & take a look at this week's #uploadMonday however off-putting the offer to loosen up with Musk may seem at first. It's the height of luxury, honest!

This week's main attraction is another trip to Russ Abbot's Saturday Madhouse

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TYNE TEES MERGE WITH YORKSHIRE TV (1970) A shock announcement from Leeds and Newcastle

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Advert Lucky Dip: Sunday Mirror, 28/7/1996

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Jon Pertwee was born on this day in 1919. Jay Gent looks back at the 1990s, when the erstwhile Third Doctor was the public face of Doctor Who, with "Jon Pertwee – The Wilderness Years Doctor"... wearecult.rocks/jon-pertwee-...

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INAUGURATION OF GERMAN TELEVISION (1935) A speech given at the opening of the German television service in 1935

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Something to read after you've voted today... THE GENERAL ELECTION (1964) David Butler tells Radio Times readers what to look for in tonight’s election results

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Yes! It's Bob on the BBC in 1964 (we tweaked the image to add the BBC-1 and ITV bits!)

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ELECTION 2024 ON TV AND RADIO Gary Rodger brings us full details of what to watch, when and where across television and radio after you’ve voted today

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Something to read after you've voted today... THE GENERAL ELECTION (1964) David Butler tells Radio Times readers what to look for in tonight’s election results

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Tomorrow, our subsite Zenith – all about 1964, the year when everything changed – has a piece by David Butler for the Radio Times explaining how the election will work. <voice type="stern"> You are only allowed to read it after you've voted. </voice> Whoever you vote for, vote tomorrow.

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A fun two-minute video looking back at the history of BBCtv election results.

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THEY SAY… AUGUST 1959 The critics and the public weigh in on Associated-Rediffusion. ‘When I grow up I would like to be the mother of eleven boys. Then I could start a football team of my own and sell them to Gateshead, because they need some help.’ – 12-year-old Blaydon-on-Tyne viewer.

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THEY SAY… AUGUST 1959 The critics and the public weigh in on Associated-Rediffusion. ‘When I grow up I would like to be the mother of eleven boys. Then I could start a football team of my own and sell them to Gateshead, because they need some help.’ – 12-year-old Blaydon-on-Tyne viewer.

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🟩 In collaboration with @AvroVulcanXH607, @zxguesser.bsky.social and @TesTVWhirl, we've launched a new teletext service.

Webfax is a tribute to services such as Ceefax and ORACLE.

The initial version of the service carries national/regional news, TV listings and other features.

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SPOTLIGHT 1971: ATV NETWORK About ATV and the Midlands’ transmitters

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This week's #uploadMonday is full of small things that would go on to become big, also there's a grill that apparently stews & casseroles?

Your full programme is nostalgia about nostalgia, as Little and Large look back at November 1977 in The Time of Your Life

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LOOKING IN ON PANORAMA (1955) Panorama presenter Max Robertson takes us round his Lime Grove studio

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With England vs Slovenia about to kick off on ITV, a timely repost of my deep dive into The Curse of ITV. Is it real? Is it bobbins? And where does Bob Wilson come into it? brokentv.uk/2022/12/06/t...

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We're excited to announce a new book title. Is That You, Maureen: My Life Making Children's TV & Beyond is a lively memoir by Jeremy Swan, producer-director of Rentaghost, Round the Twist, Jackanory and many TV classics. Order now from tenacrefilms.bigcartel.com

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Payday today? There is still time to give to our Crowdfunder and claim a fabulous reward, while helping us out with the costs of moving 507001 to its new home. Closes tomorrow at 3pm. www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/preserve-a...

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‘INVADERS’ TAKE FORT IN WAR OF POP PIRATES Radio Essex and Radio City get into a fight in 1965

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From Talking Pictures today - The most niche content warning I’ve ever seen!

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AUDIENCE WANTED: HOW TO GET THE LOCALS LISTENING (1981) Five radio stations on their different approaches to promotion

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THEY SAY… APRIL 1959 The critics and the public weigh in on Associated-Rediffusion, including… ‘The lady in the programme should be shown off a bit more because she is good looking.’ – a 14-year-old boy’s comments on Muriel Young’s appearance in ‘Lucky Dip’.

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SPOTLIGHT 1971: WESTWARD About Westward Television and South-West England’s transmitters

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This week's #uploadMonday smells very much like the 90s.

Go to the World Cup on Concorde or to the sunniest place in the UK or even (as we have some extra time) why not go windsurfing?

Finally there are jungle-related shenanigans as we go On Safari!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=FEq8...

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Andrew Bowden 🐀's avatar Andrew Bowden 🐀 @andrewbowden.me.uk
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NEW BLOG POST! In which I dig into all the weird and wonderful programming quirks of our quasi-national commercial radio networks, many of which only exist for licensing reasons, before many of them are abruptly culled FOR EVER.
blog.andrewbowden.me.uk/2024/06/24/a...

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GOOD NEWS FROM DUNDEE (1980) Things are changing at Grampian now the unions have agreed to electronic news gathering

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We posted this (genuine music written for the ident, genuine ident, but we put the two together) and… well, you'd've thought we personally stabbed everyone who watched it. The vitriol. IT'S RUINED FOREVA NOW!!1!11

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And now I'm listening to the full version of the old Channel 4 theme, which is scientifically proven to be a million times better than our national anthem. Brings a tear to the eye. youtu.be/SGUkVymTyEE?...

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We used to be a country. A proper country.

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Yes! What would you like us to pass on?

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Do I know/follow anyone with experience in Live365?

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SAVING THE BBC (1969) Will ‘Broadcasting in the Seventies’ be enough to save the BBC… from itself, asks Stuart Hood in your weekend long read

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TUNING INTO A WEST COAST ROBOT SOUND (1982) Piccadilly Radio’s Dave Willis on a world where cartridges replace records and presenters spend 20 minutes recording a 12-hour show

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THEY SAY… L MARSLAND GANDER (1959) Frank comment on Associated-Rediffusion from an outsider – the broadcasting critic of the Daily Telegraph

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SPOTLIGHT 1971: GRANADA Granada Television and the Lancashire region’s transmitters

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A big saucy hand for #uploadMonday, where this week there's beef about beef, a pig that will never be a Yellowcoat and ooooo remembers Jif?

Rounding things off there's studio-based discussion in the first edition of Daytime from 1984

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WILL THE PENNY DROP? (1977) Pay-TV, films, and David Puttnam's barking plan to neuter the BBC to save the movie industry

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BACHELOR BAKER (1957) He’s the quiet, soft spoken young man who’s adding personality to the BBC news

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‘PIRATE’ GOES FISHING FOR LISTENERS (1964) A quickie: Lord Sutch on his plans for an offshore radio station

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Just wrote a short thing about the missing episodes on the Give Us a Clue DVD release, which I hope is vaguely mournful rather than a SCREED.

www.dirtyfeed.org/2024/06/quic...

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Friday. Teletext50: a new audio documentary starring those who made it a cultural phenomenon  This is a social record of teletext, and these are the teletext people. Add 'byte high no limit' to your platform of choice.

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SWITCHING THE NEWS INTO IRN (1981)

The hardware that made the IRN contribution network possible #ILR

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