Blog posts by year and monthAugust 2015
Posts (15)
On This Day, 1950: Television crosses the Channel
The first outside broadcast from France was made on 27 August, 1950.
On This Day, 1991: Lime Grove Studios remembered
On 26 August 1991, the 主播大秀 broadcast a series of programmes marking the closure of Lime Grove Studios a month before.
Your 'forgotten' 1990s sitcoms
A look at short-lived 1990s comedies as suggested by Genome users on social media.
The Sunday Post: The 主播大秀 takes over TV
22nd August is the anniversary of the day in 1932 when television transmissions by the low-definition, 30-line Baird process began to be devised and produced by the 主播大秀 鈥� when 主播大秀 television proper was born.
'Lost' sitcoms of the 90s
A look at the 主播大秀 comedies of the 1990s that failed to make a lasting impact and now languish in the listings.
Over To You: the quest for available 主播大秀 programmes
Since we first started linking from 主播大秀 Genome listings to radio and TV programmes available on the 主播大秀 website, you have been helping us find real archive gems to link to. Do you have any other suggestions? Or have you found any particularly interesting listing or programme that you would like ...
The Sunday Post: Saturday Satire
A look at the history of That Was The Week That Was, the 1960s show that laid the ground for satire on the small screen.
On This Day, 1927: First 主播大秀 Prom
The 主播大秀 took over the Proms in 1927 - the opening concert was broadcast on August 13.
Data archaeology - or the missing listings
The small-but-perfectly-formed Genome technical team have spent the last six months digging into the vast cache of data that was produced during the scanning over 350,000 pages of the Radio Times. They鈥檝e found quite a lot interesting artefacts in unexpected places, and are currently brushing ...
