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Job description - Presentation - Transdiffusion

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In early 1969, Granada’s chief announcer Don Murray-Henderson sat down to write a guide for new (and existing) station announcers for his employer. The world has changed a lot in the 45 years that have since passed, but the document itself remains fascinating. We’re reprinting it in full here, complete with typing errors and some additional illustrations. 8211; Russ J Graham, Editor-in-Chief. Don Murray-Henderson presenting ‘Granada in the North’. GRANADA TELEVISION – STATION ANNOUNCERS. The daily transm...

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Start here - Radio - Transdiffusion

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So, you’ve just got into broadcasting history in one of its various guises and you’d like to know more about this strange hobby you’ve embarked upon. But where to start? Let’s begin at the beginning and see where television and radio through the 20th century takes us. The General Post Office. Producing a full schedule with little oversight available to the people in the BBC’s headquarters in Savoy Hill, London. Television may just have been the logical development of existing broadcasting technologies ra...

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Central eyes - History - Transdiffusion

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Television in the UK as a whole has changed on a considerable scale over the past 25 years. Younger viewers have been brought up on a cocktail of digital interactive multi-channel 24-hour broadcasting, quite different from the television watched by their parents. In particular, ITV has changed not only in its on-screen style, but also in its company structure and management. Many ‘older’ viewers agreed that this system worked well for many years. For Channel 4, ATV proposed using Elstree for programme pr...

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Tonight’s Rediffusion London… in 1965 - Schedules - Transdiffusion

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Tonight’s Rediffusion London… in 1965. Continues to be labelled as such, which we noted yesterday to be the only region where the TV Times did this; presumably a Rediffusion request to the editors. Came, as so often, from London Zoo in Regent’s Park, chosen because of its large staff of animal experts and authoritative figures from the natural history world. The programme’s usual northern homeland zoo at Chester went unvisited this week it seems. At 630pm was the successor to the long lived. It is a nota...

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Is coin-in-the-slot TV the answer? - History - Transdiffusion

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Is coin-in-the-slot TV the answer? Completing our recent mini-series of articles from the 13 February 1954 edition of TV Mirror comes this piece by the BBC’s Senior Superintendent Engineer of Television, MJL Pulling OBE, MA, MIEE. He discusses a forthcoming test of pay-TV, a new idea requiring mechanical solutions in those pre-transistor days. 8211; Russ J Graham, Editor in chief. There are experts in the United States who think that sheer cost may force some of these more expensive programmes off the ai...

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Television – Transdiffusion

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Associated British in the Midlands and the North 1956-1968. A brief visual history of TV. Past, present and future of the BBC. How television ended the day. Indepth features on digital broadcasting. The geography of television. The history of broadcasting. In-depth features on nothing in particular. Sixty years of Independent Television. Your memories of broadcasting past. Correcting UK broadcasting myths. The music of television. The presentation of news. Those that made television great.

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TV canteen - BBC - Transdiffusion

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For the TV Mirror’s 13 February 1954 edition, Ken Jones paid a visit to the BBC’s Lime Grove and listened in on the conversations in the canteen, capturing a unique slice of television life in the genteel days before the BBC had competition. We reprint his article in full below, with the usual reminder that it is, in places, very much of its time. 8211; Russ J Graham, Editor in chief. TV Canteen – where the shows are planned over sausage and mash! 8211; by KEN JONES. Specially photographed by TV Mirror.

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TBS Player – Transdiffusion

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TV and radio from the Transdiffusion archives. Spotlight 1 and 2. Listen to Radio 1 and Radio 2’s introductory programme from the evening of 30 September 1967. The Risk Business: videodiscs. In 1981 this spin-off from Tomorrow’s World tries to divine which 12″ videodisc will win the battle. The Plain Man’s Guide to Advertising. Bob Godfrey’s 1963 surreal mix of advertising tropes. Television comes to Bradford. John Walters goes to the National Museum of Photography, Film and Television in 1986. The Plain...

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About Us - Transdiffusion

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Transdiffusion developed in 1964 from a school-based tape-recording club known as the Transdiffusion Networking Association (TNA). Founded by Kif Bowden-Smith and based in the Wirral, its members communicated by sending letters to each other on reel-to-reel tape. As time progressed, Transdiffusion split NRN into two services, the General Network providing drama, comedy and light entertainment, and the Music Network, which provided a melody-based format. As the 1970s gave way to the 1980s, the fashion for...