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Spotlight

A Day With The BFI
The national film and videotape archive - by Mark Boulton

A Knight To Remember
A tribute to one of ITV's best known regional symbols

BBC Network Control
How the channels were kept on air

BBC Scotland Announcers
How it all started - by a Scottish viewer

BBC Television Symbols In The 1990s
Cutting edge technology for 1990s BBC

BBC Test Cards/Ceefax Pages
A history of BBC test signals and schedule fillers

BBC Weather Presentation
A history of the forecasts - by Paul R Jackson

Channel 4 Test Cards/Teletext Pages
The EPT-1 test card and teletext pages from 4-Tel

Industrial Disputes
Strike action blacks out TV services in the 60s, 70s and 80s

ITV Regional Presentation
Designs that didn't make it

London Weekend Television - Farewell
The end of an era

National BBC Strike 2005 (Part 1)
Monday May 23 2005

National BBC Strike 2005 (Part 2)
Monday May 23 2005

National BBC Strike 2005 (Part 3)
Monday May 23 2005

The Gallery
Moments in television history

TV Logos Of Ireland
Part 1 - The Early Years: 1961 - 1966 - by Eamonn Hanratty

TV Logos Of Ireland
Part 2 - From One Channel To Two - by Eamonn Hanratty

TV Logos Of Ireland
Part 3 - New Channels, New Emblems - by Eamonn Hanratty

TV Logos Of Ireland
Part 4 - Saint Brigid And Her Cross - by Eamonn Hanratty

Take Two

BBC Power Problems
Wednesday December 03 2003

BBC Power Problems
Saturday June 30 2001

Children's BBC Problems
Phillip Schofield presses all the wrong buttons

Gas Leak Takes Channel 4 Down
Monday November 18 2002

ITV Network Transmission Issues
May 31 2008 and June 13 2008

Late Night BBC Three Problems
Monday February 10 2003

Miscellaneous BBC Mishaps
Late-2001 and early-2002

The Continuity Booth

Advice
So you want to be an announcer?

Guided By The Voices
The invisible stars of television

Interview
Anglia - memories of the early years - Colin Bower

Interview
Colin Weston

Interview
Voice of London Weekend Television - Trish Bertram

Interview
Tony Currie

Interview
Life as an Anglia continuity announcer - David Clayton

ITV Regional Announcers
The end of an era

ITV Start-Up Sequences
1950s - 1980s

Thames Television
ITV's lynchpin

LINKS BBC UK Presentation • ITV Presentation

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