It's still a work in progress, but seems stable enough for "public beta", so by popular demand here's a standalone version of the parametric clock generator I recently added to my online teletext viewer: zxnet.co.uk/clock/#templ...

Family history day. Here's the 30-line TV set my great-grandfather and great uncle built for fun in the 1930s.

Goods inwards looks outwards (1962) Meet Harry Boatman, stores clerk at Television House

Goods inwards looks outwards (1962) Meet Harry Boatman, stores clerk at Television House

#OTD - 2nd December 1953 The BBC Television Service introduced the Bat Wings ident, designed by Abraham Games, after two years of development. Games was paid 200 guineas for the design, 70 guineas for an on-screen clock, and a 15 guineas retainer.

If you've enjoyed the nuggets of archive TV I've dug up then a little donation via Ko-fi would be very much appreciated. Cheers!

...closely followed by one from the 1990s. Enjoy!

Something a little bit different for the YouTube channel this festive season. I give to you these compendiums of Christmas continuity, idents, trails and assorted miscellany. First there's one from the 1980s...

Get ready to switch to Border TV (1961) The other half of Border Television is on its way

Get ready to switch to Border TV (1961) The other half of Border Television is on its way

Satellvision is coming (1962) Rediffusion’s assistant controller of programmes (engineering) looks at the technical issues of television by satellite

His early work included one-off plays for Rediffusion, ATV and the BBC.

Brand new on Dirty Feed: what happens when The Dick Van Dyke Show starts questioning its own worth. Spoiler: it decides it’s pretty good, actually. www.dirtyfeed.org/2025/11/i-do...

NEW POST! Even stranger things: The 1983 BBC -2 Sci Fi Film Festival ✨ David Geldard @daveofandrozani.bsky.social on how a seminal season of science fiction showcased the many ways the genre could thrill, horrify and inspire... wearecult.rocks/even-strange...

Satellvision is coming (1962) Rediffusion’s assistant controller of programmes (engineering) looks at the technical issues of television by satellite

Last year I made the 1974 Radio Times TV Guide with links to watch 1974’s Christmas listings. It’s coming back for 1975! Have you memories from Christmas 1975? Or opinions on that year’s Christmas TV shows? Hit reply to feature on this year’s Letters page! 🧑‍🎄 visualmutterings.com/1974-christm...

On this day in 1977...

When you have a rubbish day at work, you can pretend you're in Torquay in late 1981...

ITV’s world hook-up on Budget (1965) ITN pulls out all the stops to cover Mr Callaghan’s statement

ITV’s world hook-up on Budget (1965) ITN pulls out all the stops to cover Mr Callaghan’s statement

Engineering Progress (1980) Anglia Television celebrates 21 years of technical excellence

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

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

A cute story from the BBC's staff magazine Ariel in February 1965. #doctorwhoday

Happy Doctor Who Day!

I highly recommend this entire thread, not just the initial link.

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

The entire BBC local news network went to pieces on Wednesday: youtu.be/KLjLeG7_oNE?...

God *damn* this was hard to film

Andrew Wood, the man who devised the iconic gameshow Bullseye, has died, his daughter Laura has confirmed.

A (horrible) alternate reality, inspired by yesterday. #Cloudflare #Teletext #TeletextArt #Art

Creepie-Peepie (1958) What effect will CSF Portable Television Camera Equipment have on Associated-Rediffusion?

Manchester Central Library is appealing for missing Piccadilly Radio tapes to help complete its digital archive of historic shows

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. www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0Iw...

@ttxarchaeologist.bsky.social @illarterate.bsky.social Good question...

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.

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?

Telesoftware (1982) CEEFAX now lets you download software for your BBC Micro

The case of the vanishing viewer (1968) Milton Shulman watches the decline in ITV viewership since the 1968 contract changes

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 @transdiffusion.org @thetvroom.com youtu.be/TEO47d9cj2I?...

One of the first editions of HTV’s Wales at Six with Mike Lloyd Williams and Sally Jones from 1982. @tvlive.site @thetvroom.com @transdiffusion.org @whydontyoutube.bsky.social @rhaglencymru.bsky.social youtu.be/fGfntHkKSRY?...

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

NUJ Scotland is to ballot its members at STV on strike action over job cuts and plans to merge its regional news programmes. @tvlive.site @thetvroom.com @transdiffusion.org www.nuj.org.uk/resource/nuj...

Quiet man of UTV (1959) Meet William MacQuitty, managing director of the new Ulster Television

From @rollvt.bsky.social’s fab YT channel… A ‘Spotlight’ documentary from March 1991 looking ahead to UTV’s franchise battle. @tvlive.site @transdiffusion.org @thetvroom.com @whydontyoutube.bsky.social youtu.be/-XR_eue7y5U?...

Pardon me, someone else had a crack at it, too.

It took one man alone to stand up to Yorkshire Television. In the style of someone else's choosing, admittedly.

@chinnyvision.bsky.social @nikkijay.games @franticplanet.bsky.social @transdiffusion.org This came to my attention, the programme for The 21 Show. Scottish Television's 21st Anniversary show from 1978, produced by Bryan Izzard. It went out in the Scottish region only unfortunately, I want to see it!

WAC wrong-headedness (that's the BBC Written Archives Centre) I've brought together the key links for the campaign against the changes which now make independent and exploratory research at WAC impossible - and why this matters. www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk/wac-wrong-he...

Calling All Nations V: Britain to Europe (1943) The BBC reaches across the Channel to talk to the people of occupied Europe