Yes, the Welsh transmitters stop abruptly at the Wales-England border.

No, we know they didn't.

Yes, it was to do with politics.

No, we haven't made a mistake.

A map of Wales and the west of England with UHF coverage in green and the larger VHF coverage outlined in red. The Welsh transmitters all stop dead at the border with England.

April 1969 map of the planned UHF 625-line transmitter network in the Harlech Television region. More info: transdiffusion.org/2026/04/21/i...

Just a couple of days ago BBC Sounds released an interesting piece to celebrate the 60th anniversary of The Naked Ape. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Desmond Morris in 1969

Desmond Morris, producer/presenter of Granada's Zoo Time, Thames' The Human Race and the BBC's The Human Animal, has died at 98.

Regarding Redvers The voice of Rediffusion at work

Regarding Redvers

The voice of Rediffusion at work

This is like Groupie in a bad mood, which fortunately doesn’t happen very often 😊 @transdiffusion.org aficionados may appreciate the test card too.

(The last time we sold a reprint thing via a Paypal button, about 5 or 6 years ago, a full 10% of the people who bought it reversed the transaction once they'd received it — very easy to do with Paypal. So we've got to budget for that happening again, putting the price up for everyone. It rankles.)

We got stuck in approval hell at the fundraising platform (they thought we were selling secondhand material and can't be convinced otherwise) so we'll be launching soon (next week-ish?) via old-fashioned "click here to buy using Paypal" and eating the fraud and admin costs/time this will cause.

Andy Kershaw: Former Radio 1 DJ and Live Aid presenter dies aged 66 The broadcaster was known for his eclectic taste and for helping champion world music on BBC Radio 1.

Former Radio 1 DJ and Live Aid presenter Andy Kershaw dies aged 66 [BBC News]

The Art of MTV - The MTV: Music Television Logo August 1, 1981-February 8, 2010 | PDF | Mtv The document discusses the creation and impact of the MTV logo, designed by Manhattan Design in 1981, which became a cultural icon representing the vibrant and rebellious spirit of music television. I...

An appreciation of the classic MTV logo — a book, but available here as a PDF.

We're going to get up and GO » THIS IS REDIFFUSION from Transdiffusion Rediffusion's director of programmes answers questions about Rediffusion's programmes

We’re going to get up and GO (1966)

Rediffusion’s director of programmes answers questions about the policy direction of Rediffusion’s programmes

rediffusion.london/were-going-t...

A map of southwest England with the UHF area in green and the larger VHF area outlined in red

April 1969 map of the planned UHF 625-line transmitter network in the Westward Television region. More info: transdiffusion.org/2026/04/14/i...

We’re on our way to Wembley Rediffusion's Wembley studios, then and now

We’re on our way to Wembley

Rediffusion’s Wembley studios, then and now

Sheila Susan Tomlinson | *Deceased Estates* | *The Gazette* | 10 April 2026.

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Just found out that BBC film & video editor Sheila S(usan). Tomlinson died 18 days ago, 25 March 2026, by *Deceased Estates* notice in *The Gazette* 2 days ago, 10 April.

SST died intestate, hence *DE* *Gazette* notice in.

NEW PODCAST EPISODE AHOY!
The BBC's First Birthday - 14 November 1923
Marconi's BBC debut, Peter Eckersley's gang show + the raucous retirement do of Marconi boss Godfrey Isaacs. Hear from some who were there.
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Hear here:
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[Recreation] Yorkshire Television April 1969 YouTube video by Sound and Vision from Transdiffusion

From after the authority announcement, if you want to sing along....

We're Yorkshire Television
Yes, we're Yorkshire's ITV
We're Yorkshire Television
We are Yorkshire's I-i-i-i T V.

We're Yorkshire Television
Yes, we're Yorkshire's ITV
We're Yorkshire Television.
We're Yorkshire's ITV.

You can, of course, replace every mention of television in this piece with "films" (1950s), "video nasties" (1980s), "video games" (1990s) and "social media" (now) and the reasoning behind such moral panics is no different.

Do you care what TV does to your children? - THIS IS MY 1960s from Transdiffusion Does violence on TV cause delinquency in children? Grumpy critic Milton Shulman knows best

Do you care what TV does to your children? (1969)

Does violence on TV cause delinquency in children? Grumpy critic Milton Shulman knows best

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I'm working on a database of ITV Schools interval slides for sub-TV - it's in progress but do feel free to have a rummage at https://sub-tv.co.uk/itv/slides

I’ve depicted George Hersee’s test card F a few times. If that’s not a meditative image that takes the pressure off existing, I don’t know what is (though some people find it terrifying or something)

(A couple of these are still available www.chloecumming.com )

Greenwich Cablevision News A fascinating time capsule just turned up

Today, I was lucky enough to receive several issues of the Greenwich Cablevision News magazine from the early 1980s, and I couldn’t be happier. A fascinating time capsule.

'Crocks' of gold - THIS IS GRANADA from Transdiffusion Granada's consumer affairs programme Searchlight looks at dodgy mechanics

‘Crocks’ of gold (1959)

Granada’s consumer affairs programme Searchlight looks at dodgy mechanics

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.

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...

That's the chap! He mentions Rediffusion (in passing) in his British Entertainment History Project interview. historyproject.org.uk/interview/jo...

Hersey's Hiroshima - BBC Sounds Seventy years ago, an article about the atomic bombing of Hiroshima rocked the world.

Peter Curran explores the background to John Hersey's "Hiroshima" and the BBC dramatisation of it that ran on all three radio networks.

Apropos of nothing in particular, of course.

BBC Oversea (sic) Service Emergency Transmissions Schedule

BBC Oversea (sic) Service Emergency Transmissions Schedule

An emergency edition of "London Calling", mailed out to listeners of the BBC Overseas Service in September 1939.

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.

Forward march An unpopular war in the Middle East forces a change of identity for the biggest ITV company

...it's also an excuse to plug @kiffr.bsky.social's article about that Associated-Rediffusion start-up in the first post. So there.