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The grand opening of NBC’s new colour studios in Burbank, California, is celebrated by the ‘NBC Chimes’ staff magazine in Four members of the ACTT union go on a trip to East Germany in 1960 and like what they find A satirical profile of Sir Lew Grade from Barry Took in Punch magazine in 1972 In 1980, Jack Tinker, theatre critic of the Daily Mail, turns his unsympathetic eye to the launch of ITV in 1955 Inside TV-am’s popular children’s magazine show, the Wide Awake Club, in 1988 Some technical details of how Independent Local Radio sounds so different in 1977 How the four American networks – ABC, CBS, Mutual and NBC – covered the as*as*ination of President Kennedy Lord Hill of Luton on ending the Toddlers’ Truce and handing £750,000 to ITV Ice hockey on the radio propels Stewart MacPherson from the press office at the Wembley Pool into a career with the BBC The first geostationary satellite linking Europe and North America goes into service in 1965 The first ITV contracts are announced in November 1954… but, as Variety reports, politicians are worried Is Pebble Mill a white elephant? It has been, but that might be about to change says the Daily Telegraph in 1972 Angus Wilson reviews the contribution made to the arts by ABC Weekend TV’s ‘Tempo’ in 1964 The TVTimes celebrates 3,000 years of ‘Crossroads’ in 1978 in a – frankly bonkers and baffling – celebratory article ‘written’ The TVTimes finds the secrets of As*ociated-Rediffusion’s casting director Weston Drury in 1956 Hints on receiving the Home Service, Light and Third Programmes from BBC Engineering in 1951 Philip Harben introduces his new cookery show – The Grammar of Cookery – in 1964, part of ABC’s Headway ad*lt education service You know him from Trumpton and Camberwick Green. We know him from his 8 daily start-up pieces for BBC-1 (two on Sundays) in use 1964-7. Have Listen to Television start the day each day on Transdiffusion’s free SoundCloud playlist