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23/02/2025

Granada station opening from 39 years ago today…when it was also Sunday 23rd Feb!

A gentle piece of guitar music to start Sunday morning on Granada...to match Jim Pope's manner perhaps! Not sure I remember it being used any other time? P...

18/02/2025

BBC1 closedown from 40 years ago tonight!

The night before EastEnders made their debut onto our screens!I've published part of this clip before...but here's the full closedown sequence too. (It seem...

17/02/2025

BBC1 closedown from 40 years ago today…just before the launch of Wogan and EastEnders!

This was the last BBC1 closedown to use the 'physical' colourised globe, as BBC1's new identity started the following evening, along with new weather graphic...

12/11/2024

A familiar picture to many of us...but just a little more of it visible here than within the testcard circle!

29/07/2024

Former Anglia announcer Katie Glass sadly passed away this weekend.

My first recording of Anglia thanks to some high pressure back in 1983. Thames supplied a slide for a programme about blindness, then it looks like a bit of...

29/07/2024

Saw this EastEnders calendar on Ebay. The version of the BBC1 logo top right hadn't been used on-screen since the previous decade! (It would be the blue and gold globe in 1988...which made its debut the same week as Eastenders.)

27/02/2024

Clip from Calendar last night, on the passing of Rex Ripley who designed the original YTV 'chevron' logo. https://youtu.be/kPdYgXSwjQQ

11/01/2024

BBC Weather retrospective:

See how presenting styles, technology and fashion have changed on BBC weather over the decades.

07/11/2023

Can you spot him?

A look back to Telethon'88 in this trailer....and I think the item at 0:54 is a teaser for The European newspaper.Ref:XT/

23/07/2023

Interesting selection of radio and tv badges.

04/07/2023

The wonderful Meg Johnson who sadly passed away at the weekend.

Compliation of news clips from Sunday 2nd July following the loss of actress Meg Johnson who appeared in Coronation Street, Brookside and Emmerdale. She was ...

11/05/2023

Collective photo of 1980s Anglia announcers...plus of course BC, the naughty Birthday Club puppet. From top left: Patrick Anthony, Caroline Oldrey, Katie Glass, Michael Speake and Helen McDermott. Copyright acknowledged to Anglia Television.