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filmisfabulous! @filmisfabulous.bsky.social · 3h

Film is Fabulous! are seeking two volunteers to assist at an upcoming film collectors’ convention. The event will take place on Sunday 25th October, in Croxley Green (10am to 4pm). For information please contact us through the website: filmisfabulous.org.uk/contact/

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Contact | Film is Fabulous

The image is reproduced with the permission of BBC Archives.

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Matthew Kilburn @matthewkilburn.bsky.social · 2h

Ironic really. You and Yours emerged from Tony Whitby's rationalisation of 1970, and passes with another one. Very sorry to see Thinking Allowed and Free Thinking go, particularly the latter so soon after it was cast out from Radio 3.

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Hugh Sykes @hughsykes.bsky.social · 2h

Parts of the BBC-Speak statement are surreal: "...reshaping BBC speech audio" in order to "build a strong future for trusted journalism". That is exactly what Winifred Robinson & You and Yours are. If It Ain't Broke Don't Fix It.

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Historical Television Website @htw.bsky.social · 2h

At least they're belatedly doing things that ought to have been done years ago. Don't just quietly cut backroom staff since politicians don't care about that sort of thing, cut Question Time and Newsnight instead because when politicians personally care about something *then* they sit up and notice.

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Illuminatus @illuminatus.bsky.social · 3h

Is this a tactical move though? Make visible cuts to services that very particular (and vocal) constituencies will be up in arms about to put pressure on legislators? I wonder when Radio 3 might start seeing this too?

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Jane Hill @janehill.bsky.social · 3h

You & Yours is easily dismissed, but it’s actual practical journalism that makes a difference. BBC to cut raft of Radio 4 programmes including You and Yours www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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BBC to cut raft of Radio 4 programmes including You and Yours

The corporation said it would be investing in a new consumer programme, while announcing more cuts.

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Jim Lynn @jimlynn.uk · 07/10/2026

The TV Show Database on ITV used a set of lines in the corner to broadcast software, which you read using an optical read you could build yourself. vhistory.wordpress.com/2016/03/30/m...

Mike Thorne and a Commodore microcomputer, with a telesoftware patch flashing in the corner of the screen

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TRANSDIFFUSI⭕️N @transdiffusion.org · 23h

Imagine a 248-page book packed with ATV and ITC material from 1955 to 1981 delivered in November for £25! #ATVShowBook Imagine no more! --> transdiffusion.org/atv-show-book/

A montage of pages from the TBS ATV Show Book

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HappyToast @happytoast.co.uk · 23h

New Director General wants the BBC to *checks notes* die on a toilet

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Goon Pod @goonpod.bsky.social · 22h

It’s 40 years since the airing of the last sitcom to feature the gag of a dinner party guest mistaking a bowl of pot pourri for posh crisps

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Saturday Mornings @saturdaymornings.co.uk · 22h

Here's Andi explaining (or trying to...) how they've made it easier for you to use that new fangled Email to get in touch with Live & Kicking. Letters and faxes seem a lot simpler... #saturdaymornings

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Historical Television Website @htw.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

"Emu's Broadcasting Company, Ahhh haaa"

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ChinnyVision @chinnyvision.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Absolute bollocks. As any fool knows, London got UHF 625 TV in 1964 and before that it was 405 line VHF. So why is there a UHF aerial on the rooftop on the right? Idiots. Rest is fine obvs.

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Historical Television Website @htw.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The Skydance logo looks like AI slop from the 1990s and I'm being generous here.

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Historical Television Website @htw.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

BBC Archive's old TV comparison video was understandably popular so here's another from the same 1965 series comparing tape recorders. Perfect for recording The Power of the Daleks off the TV using a microphone close (but not too close!) to the speaker www.youtube.com/watch?v=k01-...

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1965: The Best Tape Recorders on the Market | Choice | BBC Archive

YouTube video by BBC Archive

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UKPRES @ukpres1.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

In 1987 Cuddly Kenny Everett was meeting his neighbours on BBC 1 this autumn.

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archivetvmusings @archivetvmusings.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Blakes 7 - Power by Ben Steed (5th October 1981). "It's a problem, isn't it? You can have war between races, war between cultures, war between planets. But once you have war between the sexes, you eventually run out of people."

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Historical Television Website @htw.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Not if you want to watch TV if you're living on a narrowboat, in a caravan or tent in the 'middle of nowhere'. Also there's some rural fibre provision but the network still needs much greater expansion for 100% coverage (please don't mention Starlink).

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TRANSDIFFUSI⭕️N @transdiffusion.org · 05/10/2026

If you want to know the time ask the TV oracle (1976) A touch of a button and you can get instant news, weather and traffic reports

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If you want to know the time ask the TV oracle

A touch of a button and you can get instant news, weather and traffic reports

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Why Don't YouTube? @whydontyoutube.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

70 YEARS AGO TODAY: Zoo Quest, David Attenborough's first TV series, bringing a big audience to wildlife by travelling to witness a rare animal in its natural habitat, immediately prior to capturing it and bringing it back for London Zoo.

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Zoo Quest - Zoo Quest for a Dragon: 1. Borneo - Part One

First transmitted in 1956, David Attenborough and cameraman Charles Lagus begin their quest in Borneo, the first in the chain of islands they must cross in order to reach Komodo.

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Illuminatus @illuminatus.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

"Before Jupp took up her role in documentaries, she had moved to the US and was a senior member of the BBC's AI team, developing and leading the BBC's approach to artificial intelligence." Riiiiiiiight. Ok.

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Rachel Jupp is a bold choice for BBC News chief, says Katie Razzall

The new director of news takes over from Deborah Turness, who resigned as CEO last year.

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Historical Television Website @htw.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Will be years before 5G+ mobile broadband is both widely available and dirt cheap, unless subsidised by central government (very unlikely at present) and providers obliged to do quick upgrades. And knowing Vodafone it will be another 20 years before this area finally gets upgraded 😜

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Historical Television Website @htw.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I'm still in favour of reducing the number of broadcast digital TV multiplexes to make room for more mobile services (but not complete elimination for the time being) as long as the mobile operators are quickly forced to use those additional allocations.

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Historical Television Website @htw.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Yes, in *theory*, but as we've seen in the past any new frequencies require additional money to implement so they will charge extra for '6G' or whatever so won't be cheap. Also Vodafone has been laughably slow in giving my area 5G even though they once tried to install it but epically failed.

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Andrew Bowden 🐀 @andrewbowden.me.uk · 05/10/2026

I regularly get annoyed by people saying we don't need broadcast because mobile can do it all. Number of times mobile signals fall apart in rural areas is incredible.

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Historical Television Website @htw.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Just one reason why there can't be a UK digital terrestrial switch off for at least another ten years. Also Ofcom's mobile coverage checker no longer tells you whether or not you have 5G in your area which is rather telling www.ofcom.org.uk/mobile-cover...

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Map Your Mobile

Ofcom’s mobile checker shows which network offers the best 4G or 5G signal where you need it most.

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Historical Television Website @htw.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Z-Shed would be interesting to see but I suspect that it wouldn't exactly be riveting to watch especially by modern standards. Plus potentially still tricky to clear for modern broadcast despite now being over 50 years old.

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Historical Television Website @htw.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

On reflection, two things Multi-Coloured Saturdays ought to have done but didn't: firstly give us a longer clip from Z-Shed if it was that pivotal. And secondly have shown Swap Trek in full (assuming it still exists complete of course) because based on a vague memory Swap Trek wasn't *that* long.

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Paul Arthur @doctorwhoprophunt.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Here's a special, and impromptu, prop hunt post to celebrate 50 years of Multi-Coloured Swap Shop. doctorwhoprophunt.blogspot.com/2026/10/mult...

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MULTI-COLOURED PROP HUNT

This wasn’t the post I’d planned to make. But this morning I watched Multi Coloured Saturdays on the iPlayer. It’s an old documentary about ...

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Ten Acre Books @tenacrebooks.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

We're counting down to the release of our new book The Reality War. Pre-order now to get the early discount price of £12.99, which will rise to the RRP of £14.99 upon release.

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Samira Ahmed @samiraahmeduk.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Marvellous time going through #GraemeGarden’s comedy career in archive photos and stills…

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Jonny Morris @jonnymorris.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

This is interesting and I am not remotely surprised but nevertheless delighted that it more-or-less tallies with what I thought was going on. But a couple of extra thoughts... www.theguardian.com/media/2026/o...

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‘Goodbye Whoniverse. God, that was fun!’: Russell T Davies on writing the end of Doctor Who

In an extract from his new memoir, the screenwriter bids farewell to the show he helped save – and welcomes its new future, whatever that is

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archivetvmusings @archivetvmusings.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The first episode of Stingray was originally broadcast in selected ITV regions on this day in 1964. "Anything can happen in the next half hour!"

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Andy AVAV Systems @avavsystems.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Round up of recent hauls All my usual suspects Studio2Stereo Phase4 BBC Themes Top of the Poppers Cheesecake Stereo Samplers Lovely White Label Test Pressing /Promo, Studio2 John Keating Space Experience Much will be heading for @charityclassics.bsky.social So much tat, so little time (& space)

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The House Of Splain @thehouseofsplain.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Have you ever wanted to ask Noel Edmonds a question? No need! All the important topics are covered in his 1980 annual, which we've read! Full episode youtu.be/gef6LUf8rmY

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Richard Drew #MDANT @ourmanincairo.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Crew photo 1991 #swapshop - I’m the idiot in the baseball hat.

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Ben Baker @benbaker.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

How much would you pay for weekly Cheggers? #SwapShop

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Historical Television Website @htw.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

*speaks slowly but deliberately whilst walking towards the camera*

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Ste Gordon @sgordonthe87.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

and a legend was born.

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Curious British Telly @curiousbritishtelly.co.uk · 04/10/2026

New Curious British Telly video is Network 21: The Illegal TV Station You Could Tune Into in 1986

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Network 21: The Illegal TV Station You Could Tune Into in 1986

YouTube video by Telly Viewer

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Stephen Green @beanygreen.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

He wasn’t born with a beard y’know.

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Mike Knell @blat.at · 03/10/2026

Ah, what a great read: "EMI came up with the famous but now discontinued 405 -line, 50 frames interlaced (giving 25 complete picture frames per second) scanning system." That standard lasted in service for 48 years. PAL-625 lasted about 40 years. Neither DVB-T or -T2 will last anywhere near that.

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Mark Fraser @mfraz74.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I do remember seeing it WH Smith when I used to by The Maplin Magazine, but like you I couldn't justify buying it. There's quite a lot of speculation regarding Channel 5, high definition wide screen TV and CD-i. What a Life's always a good laugh.

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Historical Television Website @htw.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

They're fantastic aren't they? At the time I couldn't justify paying for them considering how little use they would have been but now in particular they're a goldmine of information. Just read about the earlier proposal to make Channel 5 exclusively for local TV which as we now know wasn't viable!

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Historical Television Website @htw.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Television magazine was primarily aimed at the television trade of course but did very occasionally contain TV ident/presentation coverage and prior to the internet was the only regular public source for that sort of thing apart from a few books. Nowadays we're spoilt for choice by comparison.

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Historical Television Website @htw.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Finally found it again! As seen in a newsagent at the time, the article published in Television magazine from September 1990 that helped to re-awaken my interest in television presentation pre-internet: "BBC Tuning Signals 1934-63" on page 862. www.worldradiohistory.com/UK/Practical...

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Historical Television Website @htw.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Of course it still is. However, the first promotional trailer for a natural history series I saw after David Attenborough's 100th birthday featuring another presenter (the otherwise-excellent Chris Packham) featured Packham calling an animal 'iconic'. THAT WOULDN'T HAVE HAPPENED WITH ATTENBOROUGH.

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Historical Television Website @htw.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Same could apply to online news sites complaining about the undue prominence frequently given to headlines on printed newspapers.

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