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In November 1969, BBC1 and ITV started broadcasting in 625-line PAL colour on UHF. Their programming was now entirely produced using the new 625-line standard, and thus the 405-line broadcasts served only as a rebroadcast in monochrome for people who did not have the newer receivers and who could only receive BBC1 and ITV.
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26 January 1926:First public demonstration of television to members of the Royal Institution by John Logie Baird in his London laboratory. 24–27 May 1927:Baird demonstrates long distance transmission of television pictures over telephone lines from London to Glasgow (438 miles). 20 September 1927:Baird makes first electronic image recordings onto o...
14 March 1930:Simultaneous sound-and-vision 30-line television transmissions are made possible by a new transmitter (Brookman’s Park). 14 July 1930: First British television drama: Pirandello’s The Man with a Flower in his Mouth. March 1931:The Gramophone Company (HMV) and Columbia Graphophone Company merge to form a new company, Electrical and Mus...
23 December 1941:Baird gives first demonstration of 600-line electronic stereoscopic television in colour. 7 June 1946:BBC television reopens after the war. July–August 1948: London hosts the 1948 Summer Olympics, the first Olympic tournament to be broadcast to home television. 17 December 1949:BBC TV Midlands transmitter opens.
27 August 1950:First live link from the continent (Calais to London) lays the foundation for the later Eurovision network. 12 October 1951:BBC TV North transmitter opens, serving the North of England. 15 January 1952:BBC TV Scotland transmitter opens. 2 June 1953:Biggest outside broadcast to date: the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II. 22 September ...
11 July 1962:First transatlantic satellite link via Telstar. 16 April 1964:First live link from Japan via Telstar II. 20 April 1964: BBC2 scheduled to open on 625 lines. Massive power failure in West London means gala opening night is cancelled. BBC2 opens the following morning, 21 April, with episode of Play School. 2 May 1965:First trans-Atlantic...
29 July 1981:Biggest outside broadcast to date: the wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer (750 million viewers in 74 countries). 1 January 1982:New ITV contracts start. New companies include Central Television, TVS and TSW. 2 November 1982:Channel 4 television begins broadcasting. 17 January 1983:BBC Breakfast Time (breakfast television)...
29 April 1990:Launch of British Satellite Broadcasting (BSB) (satellite television broadcaster). 2 November 1990:Sky and BSB merge to form BSkyB. 1 January 1993:New ITV contracts start. New companies include Carlton Television, Meridian Broadcasting, Westcountry Television and GMTV. Old companies lost in the franchise change include TV-AM, TVS, TSW...
22 October 2002:UK’s Freeview free-to-air digital terrestrial television (DTT) service officially begins. 2 February 2004:Merger of Granada Television and Carlton Television is completed. The new company is named ITV plc. 27 May 2006:The BBC begins broadcasting in high-definition (HDTV) on their new subscription channel BBC HD. 17 October 2007:The ...
30 March 2010:Freeview HD is launched across the UK, featuring the new Channel 4 HD. 1 October 2010:Sky launches Europe’s first stereoscopic (3DTV) television channel. 28 February 2011:Product placement is permitted on UK television for the first time. 2012–2013: The BBC sells Television Centre, and moves most of its operations from Television Cent...
Nov 27, 2017 · On 16 May 1969 the Postmaster General finally gave BBC1 and ITV permission to start their UHF colour services, and by 1 January 1970 colour television could be received in areas served by these main transmitters: Crystal Palace (London), Winter Hill (South Lancashire/Manchester), Sutton Coldfield (Midlands), Emley Moor (South Yorkshire), Black ...
Mar 17, 2022 · Although colour television had arrived, not all programmes were ready to make the switch, and colour programming was introduced gradually. After the BBC2 launch in 1967, colour broadcasting went live on the remaining two channels—BBC1 and ITV—on 15 November 1969.
Feb 15, 2015 · UK launched Europe’s first colour service on Dec 2nd 1967. This was broadcast using the Phase Alternating Line (PAL) system, which was based on the work of the German television engineer Walter Bruch. PAL was based on NTSC but much improved, NTSC was dubbed “never twice the same colour”.
Jun 30, 2017 · Colour on BBC Two continued apace, and colour broadcasting finally came to BBC1 and ITV on 15 November 1969. By 1972 there were 1.5 million colour sets in use, by 1974 that had risen to 5.5...
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The BBC's experimental UHF NTSC tests ceased, to be replaced by PAL tests beginning in the afternoon trade tests from 26 May 1965, and the decision to use PAL for British colour television was taken the following year.
