Steel-framed building with red REDIFFUSION TELEVISION STUDIOS across the top
The side of the building, from the main road.
==The Fred Bonfield collection in the Transdiffusion archives==
Still at Wembley for lovely views of the big Rediffusion studios.
Everyone here already knows about this, obviously, but for the stragglers just getting back from a month in Ulaanbaatar, please go to Mark McMillan's brilliant Project Pendulum NOW. Yes, put down that fork, leave the table and just *glory* in it. Thank you. www.mcmweb.co.uk/project_pend...
Ready, Steady, Go! (1964)
Two features aimed at teens explaining a bit about the behind the scenes work at their favourite show
A screenshot taken in the 3D modelling program Blender. It shows a model of the Associated-Rediffusion clock, a camera in front of the clock and two lights either side of the camera to illuminate it.
You can see here how I lit my Blender model of "Mitch". Two lights either side of the camera. Nowhere near as nice as the Associated-Rediffusion set-up! I haven't got the black velvet material on the backing board here, so you can see shadows on it.
...it's also an excuse to plug @kiffr.bsky.social's article about that Associated-Rediffusion start-up in the first post. So there.
Ooh, there's also this brilliant piece of cover art from issue 3 of the A-R staff magazine 'Fusion' for Autumn 1958 by Joe McGrath.
A map of the south of England, showing planned UHF coverage in green and the far larger VHF coverage outlined in red
April 1969 map of the planned UHF 625-line transmitter network in the Southern Independent Television region. More info: transdiffusion.org/2026/04/07/i...
The BBC's "V for Victory" tuning signal, developed during the last world war and still in use on shortwave when we recorded it in the 1960s. Auditory hauntology.
The daddy of them all...
Just this.
DIGITAL PEOPLE! WRAP YOUR LUGHOLES AROUND THIS LOAD OF DIGITS!
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I can recommend this! All the TV presentation music of my childhood!!!!
I’ve only played it four times, mind. 🤔
It’s not often that cover versions are better than the originals. These are absolutely first class. I don’t say that lightly. An exquisite exposition of a canon in its own right. Breathtaking. 🌹
This is the most timid Trump has ever been on the issue of Canada becoming the 51st US state. In the face of a self-assured Canadian PM who knows he has the backing of the entire Canadian people on this issue, Trump has been neutered.
One is left gasping at the sheer nerve of that.
Trump incorrectly claims the US subsidies Canada by $200 billion per year and shuts down the press conference before Carney can respond.
Watched Doctor Who. Quite simply one of the best pieces of television – not even just the best DW – I've seen in about 20 years.
39 is your measurement from shoulder to shining shoulder.
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I'd stand a bit clearer than that.
39? I think you’re forgetting the years you slept. 😳
A forlorn male border collie
“It’s not FAIR. One of the two pointless bitches you make me live with FINALLY has a point and you keep me away from her. All I want to do is, you know, have a shag and stuff.”
An advert for a pan, with the slogan "the last pan you'll ever need to buy"
Is this a threat? Because it feels like a threat
Terrific stuff. "You may have sat with an aged grandparent, listening to them rambling on trying to pick the right moment to interject. Perhaps there was something you needed to persuade them to agree to: a visit to the doctor, a signature on a power of attorney, or Article 5 of the Nato Treaty. "
I grew up with encyclopaedias. There’s real age prejudice there. It’s easier just to ask some helpful person to tell you.
No I just keep forgetting it exists.
