John Wyver writes: Monday 24 September 1928 was the second day of a week of demonstration transmissions by John Logie Baird's company for the National Radio Exhibition at Olympia. Radiolympia attendees could step out on a dance floor to tunes more
John Wyver writes: 'Television in full colour: demonstration by Mr J.L. Baird' was the headline to the report on Friday 28 July 1939 by the Daily Telegraph's radio correspondent L. Marsland Gander. His lede ran:
Important progress in recent experimentsmore
John Wyver writes: Ninety-five years ago today, for 26 minutes from 3.30pm on the afternoon of Monday 14 July 1930, The Man with the Flower in his Mouth by Luigi Pirandello was broadcast. This is unquestionably a significant more
John Wyver writes: By the late spring of 1930 Baird Television Ltd had been transmitting thrice weekly half-hour variety bills for around 18 months. The 30-line images were very basic and the service's profile can be judged from the minimal more
John Wyver writes: Welcome to a new index of the earliest group of my daily posts about an aspect of British television before the Second World War. Listed below are the posts that ran from late November through December. As more
John Wyver writes: readers of The Era daily on Wednesday 6 February 1935 enjoyed two stories about television that, exactly 90 years on, suggest how unstable the very idea of television was then. Under the heading "Tellies" there was speculation more
John Wyver writes: another significant moment for the 'high definition' service from Alexandra Palace. Saturday 30 January 1937 was the last day on which the Baird system for producing and transmitting 240-line images was used. After this, AP relied more
John Wyver writes: This, my friends, is The Big One. Ninety-nine years ago, on the evening of Tuesday 26 January 1926, in rooms above what is now Bar Italia in London's Soho, John Logie Baird gave the first public presentation more
John Wyver writes: Saturday 15 December 1928, 96 years ago today, is a milestone date in the history of early television in Britain. Or at least it should be, since the day saw the transmission of the first television drama more
The world's first regular television service started 80 years ago today, when BBC Television began daily transmissions from Alexandra Palace (above is AP's blue plaque). To mark the date, at 9pm tonight BBC Four broadcast Television's Opening Night: How the Box more