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This is https://transdiffusion.org/, the independent broadcasting authority since 1964. A huge collection of television, radio & advertising archives, articles and more.
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BLOG UPDATE! I've gone and made a full rundown of the fifty TV programmes that have been broadcast most frequently throughout 2025. With the bonus added prize of revealing which FOUR television programmes appeared on all four BBC channels in 2025. brokentv.uk/2025/12/28/t...
December 28, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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This isn't news to regular users of my online teletext viewer as it's been online for ages, but one of the channels has a service from this evening 40 years ago.
This was recovered from a VHS tape and every page painstakingly repaired and turned back into a packet stream

zxnet.co.uk/teletext/vie...
December 28, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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This is a great game... guess the country from the TV channel that's being live streamed.

www.tvguessr.garden

h/t to a user on @pres.cafe for this brilliant waste of time!
TVGuessr - Guess the Country from Live TV
Watch live TV streams and guess the country of origin!
www.tvguessr.garden
December 26, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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Don’t fancy 2025’s telly today? Need to hide from family for an hour or two?

Enjoy Christmas 1975 instead! 🎅🏻🎄

Open the PDF, click on a programme title and start streaming from various platforms.

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December 25, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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And for those interested in the ad breaks during what I uploaded of the review as well, I've uploaded them into a separate video a month ago
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The final 2 sets of ad breaks during the South Bank Show Arts Review is what makes up today's upload, notably featuring one from Nicorette about the dangers of smoking and a lighter version of Pliladelphia (as cream cheese)
December 25, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Merry Christmas! Here’s our tele-snap of Rediffusion celebrating the day back in the late 1960s, and @kecskebak.bsky.social’s wonderfully detailed reconstruction of it.
December 25, 2025 at 1:04 AM
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Merry Christmas!!!

In the first of a series of planned updates, sub-tv.co.uk has its Christmas jumper on and some snow falling :-)
December 25, 2025 at 12:50 AM
We’re just hearing reports that Andrew Emmerson, a name presentation enthusiasts of the 1990s will be very familiar with, has died. Very upsetting. We doff our caps to you, good sir. Sleep well.
December 25, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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It's the 24th of December! What better time to do my first blog post of the year? While the 25th is renowned for putting on the same few programmes, are there any ubiquitous offerings on TV each Christmas Eve? There are, but often not ones you'd expect. brokentv.uk/2025/12/24/s...
So, What TV Programmes Appear Most Often on Christmas Eve?
Merry Excelmas! Here’s a quick post I thought of doing after exploring all the televisual fare on Christmas Eve this year, and wondering: are there any true mainstays on Christmas Eve BBC tel…
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December 24, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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They said it couldn't be done.

From Norwich, it's About Anglia...On Ice! (incoprorating Christine Webber Sings)

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ABOUT ANGLIA ON ICE - Christmas Eve 1986
YouTube video by Simon Andrews
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December 24, 2025 at 8:36 AM
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If you fancy a trawl through the history of the Christmas music that accompanied the Test Card and Ceefax Pages, here's a programme I made for Care Radio two years ago with added visual bits.
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Channel Hopping at Christmas 2023
YouTube video by Al Dupres
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December 14, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Lewis Ringway describes what happened with the Horizon Radio DAB hijack. [Contains strong language, obviously]
This Radio Station Just Got Hijacked With One Word!
YouTube video by Ringway Manchester
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December 22, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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The extra special 1975 Christmas Radio TV Times starts today!
Yuletide felicitations! The 1975 Christmas 'Radio TV Times' magazine is now available! 🎁

Explore 10 days of December 1975’s TV listings across both BBC and ITV.

Open the PDF, click on a programme title and start streaming from various platforms. 🤶

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1975 Christmas Radio TV Times Magazine
Travel back 50 years into Christmas TV's past. The Christmas Radio TV Times gathers links to TV programmes from Christmas week 1975.
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December 20, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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A look back at the Coast to Coast years - one of two VHS tapes released by TVS in 1992 to mark the end of their franchise.

This is the South East edition...

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TVS Scrapbook of the South-east - COAST TO COAST
YouTube video by Kevin Drobecz
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December 19, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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We are sad to report that longtime BBC Children's TV producer-director Angela Beeching has died at the age of 84. Angela recently shared her memories for our book Box of Delights, and her work on Jackanory and other classic programmes entertained millions of young viewers across three decades.
December 18, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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Yuletide felicitations! The 1975 Christmas 'Radio TV Times' magazine is now available! 🎁

Explore 10 days of December 1975’s TV listings across both BBC and ITV.

Open the PDF, click on a programme title and start streaming from various platforms. 🤶

visualmutterings.com/1975-christm...
1975 Christmas Radio TV Times Magazine
Travel back 50 years into Christmas TV's past. The Christmas Radio TV Times gathers links to TV programmes from Christmas week 1975.
visualmutterings.com
December 17, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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One of my Christmas traditions is reading this brilliant article about an absolutely fascinating period by Gary Rodger transdiffusion.org/2018/12/24/a...
Almost a silent night
CHRISTMAS IS CANCELLED - almost. Gary Rodger takes us through the industrial dispute that almost closed the BBC at Christmas in 1978
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December 18, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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It's 1984 BBC One Christmas Greeting promo, Who is Santa? ( everyone thought it was noel last year) However were missing the last 15second alas.. Has anyone seen this promo else where?
December 17, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Thanks for the memory…. (1964)

Sally Sutherland in the press office at Television House retires
Thanks for the memory…. » THIS IS REDIFFUSION from Transdiffusion
Sally Sutherland in the press office at Television House retires
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December 17, 2025 at 5:36 PM
LWT’s Humphrey Burton has died at the age of 94.
Sir Humphrey Burton, former Classic FM presenter and Bernstein biographer, dies aged 94
The former Classic FM presenter had a long and celebrated career in the arts.
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December 17, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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And now, from Norwich...BC - the show! (that never was)

An Anglia pilot for their erstwhile birthday mascot. Curious mix of semi-educational stuff, regionalism writ large and Helen McDermott adopting the spirit of Chairman Humph.

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UNSEEN ANGLIA: BC's Box of Delights - 21.12.86
YouTube video by Simon Andrews
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December 16, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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OFCOM begins consultation on STV's revised proposals for regional news.

= 70% shared content / 30% split in 6pm programme
- All short bulletins shared for North & Central
- Opts for Edinburgh / Dundee axed

Consultation runs until 9th February.

www.ofcom.org.uk/tv-radio-and...
Consultation: STV licence change request
This consultation sets out Ofcom's proposals on STV's request to change its regional programming commitments.
www.ofcom.org.uk
December 16, 2025 at 10:37 AM