Features

The Sound Broadcasting Act gets Royal Assent and the Independent Television Authority is renamed the Independent Broadcasting Authority on Monday 12 June 1972. That day's Engineering Announcements for the television and radio trade is a special edition giving details of the changes.

First ever IBA Engineering Announcements - Monday 12 June 1972

Opportunity Knocks says Goodbye to Didsbury on ABC's last Saturday - a complete show, minus adverts, that looks back at 12 years of ABC in the North.

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Opportunity Knocks: Goodbye to Didsbury (27 July 1968)

David Hamilton closes ABC North down for the very final time on Sunday 28 July 1968 with this special trip down memory lane, also featuring Keith Martin with the final weather forecast.

Goodbye to ABC, final programme on ABC, 28 July 1968

In the week of 22 February 1971, LWT teeters on the edge yet again and faces a takeover from Rupert Murdoch. Ludovic Kennedy and Barrie Penrose at the BBC's '24 Hours' stir the pot... or investigate the troubled broadcaster.

BBC '24 Hours' on the fall of LWT, week commencing 22 February 1971

From the late 1970s, BBC Radio 1's 'Mailbag' interviews producer Johnny Beerling about the station's use of jingles. With thanks to Jon Tarrant.

Johnny Beerling interviewed about BBC Radio 1 jingles

Broadcasting minister Christopher Chataway is about to decide how commercial radio will be introduced into the UK. David Lomax reports for the BBC's '24 Hours'.

BBC '24 Hours' on the Sound Broadcasting Bill, 14 January 1971

Launch night of the new BBC Radio 1 and BBC Radio 2. Kenneth Horne takes us through what you can expect from the two new networks. Music edited out - in places, literally with scissors at the time. Also gone is the Michael Parkinson sports monologue. Sorry.

Spotlight 1 and 2, 30 September 1967

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