The simple B-B-C jingle used between every 5 or so pieces of testcard music as a tuning signal.

BBC jingle

The BBC Home Service's news at 10pm on 14 August 1967 reports on the closedowns of the offshore stations as the Marine Offences Act comes into force.

BBC Home Service on the offshore radio closedowns

In 1941, the BBC began prefixing their transmissions to the European mainland with 'V' in morse code, a practice that was so successful they kept it up long after the end of the war. http://www.transdiffusion.org/2015/07/16/dot-dot-dot-dash

BBC 'V for Victory' tuning signal

It's 1971 and Ireland is hosting the Eurovision Song Contest for the first time. Terry Wogan is there, ready to commentate for BBC Radio 2, but clearly with very little bandwidth. Someone manages to get a better feed - but one, Radio 2 continuity discover, with no Wogan attached...

BBC Radio 2 coverage of the 1971 Eurovision Song Contest

Tony Wolfe makes test transmissions on 95.85 VHF on 10 November 1967 for the forthcoming BBC Radio Merseyside.

BBC Radio Merseyside test transmissions

Radio 1's low budget and lack of needle time in the 1960s often forced it and Radio 2 to join forces. Here's the (end cut, natch) opening of one such programme: Pete Murray's Sunday People.

Pete Murray's Sunday People on R1 and R2

Michael Aspel gives advice to engineers and viewers on how to adjust their new colour television sets in 1967.

The Colour Television Receiver - BBC2 - Michael Aspel - 1967

BBC-1 on a Sunday afternoon in 1965 is repeating the imported US series "Arrest and Trial" when the sound disappears. Continuity put on a record and apologise.

BBC1 lost of sound during "Arrest and Trial" in 1965

We come out of The Sam Costa Show on BBC Radio 2 in 1968 into the Greenwich Time Signal - but not the one we're used to these days.

The Sam Costa Show into the old-style Greenwich pips

BBC-1 returns us to the testcard and some music, which, after 20 seconds or so, turns out not be what you were expecting.

BBC-1 chimes and testcard music, 1965

It's July 1968 and the BBC suddenly split their 'North' region in two, with the eastern half of the region gaining a new start-up and a new news programme for some reason.

BBC-1 North (Leeds) opening, July 1968

Hankies at the ready: it's 29 September 1967 and David Dunhill is here to close down the BBC Home Service for the night... and forever.

BBC Home Service final closedown

From 1965 comes this bossa nova start-up from BBC-1, using Freddie Phillips's "Solid Steel Ticker". If it sounds a bit familiar, Phillips is now probably most famous for his later work on Camberwick Green, Trumpton and Chigley.

BBC-1 start-up: "Solid Steel Ticker" by Freddie Philips | 1965

BBC-1 comes on air in 1965 for the London, Midlands, West and North regions with its lunchtime programme in Welsh for the diaspora, using "Blu Part Invention" by Freddie Phillips.

BBC-1 start-up "Blu Part Invention" by Freddie Phillips | 1965

BBC Radio Medway comes on air with a truly American jingle ("we program just for you!" they sing) in 1970.

BBC Radio Medway launch package | 1970

The BBC Television Service starts the day with the Radiophonic Workshop's "Time Beat" and a welcome from Trevor Lucas.

BBCtv start-up: "Time Beat" by Ray Cathode (Maddalena Fagandini and George Martin) | 1962

BBC Radio Nottingham hands back to BBC Radio 1 for second half of the Tony Blackburn Show with a locally run-off copy of the signature tune ('Beefeaters' by Johnny Dankworth) and a pre-recorded custom announcement by Blackburn.

BBC Radio Nottingham into BBC Radio 1

The BBC German Service closes down for the day and hands back to the BBC European Service, who are currently carrying the BBC World Service (got it?)

BBC German Service closedown

BBC Radio Nottingham hands over to BBC Radio 1... and later comes back in with the most absurd segue ever.

BBC Radio Nottingham awful segue

Radio 1 closes for the day in the early 1970s.

BBC Radio 1 closedown

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