Sir Robert Fraser OBE
The Director General of the ITA welcomes you to Alpha
Year: 1960
Val Parnell
Val Parnell of ATV welcomes you to Alpha
Howard Thomas
Howard Thomas, head of ABC Weekend TV, welcomes you to Alpha
The Television Centre at Aston
Photographs of Alpha in the past, now, and how it will look after 1960
What is Alpha?
How Alpha Television Studios came to be
Looking around Alpha – 1
Take a peek inside Alpha
Looking around Alpha – 2
More from inside Alpha
ATV programmes and personalities – 1
The people and programmes that make up ATV at Alpha
ATV programmes and personalities – 2
More people and programmes that make up ATV at Alpha
ATV programmes and personalities – 3
Even more people and programmes that make up ATV at Alpha
ABC programmes and personalities – 1
The people and programmes that make up ABC at Alpha
ABC programmes and personalities – 2
More people and programmes that make up ABC at Alpha
ABC programmes and personalities – 3
Even more people and programmes that make up ABC at Alpha
Recollections of past programmes
Looking back at three recent ABC programmes
Presentation
Take a trip around Transmission Control
The Audience is part of the Show
What happens when an audience doesn't laugh? Invite them back!
Is it so easy?
Would you like to work at Alpha?
The Producer
What it takes to be a producer at Alpha
The work of a Designer
Inside the life of a television designer at Alpha
Floor Manager
What does a floor manager at Alpha do? Everything!
Production Services
Alpha Television, a full service studio
Engineering and Development
Networking from Alpha to the whole of the UK
“Let’s Go”
Behind the scenes at Alpha's Saturday sports and entertainment strand
Better results from your receiver
How to receive Alpha programmes for the best view of the Midlands
Lichfield transmitter
A look at the Lichfield transmitter
ABC Television
About ABC Weekend TV
Associated TeleVision
About ATV
The ITV system
The Independent Television Authority (ITA) was created in August 1954 to provide “for the period...
ITV’s regional pattern
London: The ITA’s transmitter at Croydon was opened on 22nd September 1955. It serves a...
The last announcement from Alpha, 1969
Joan Palmer provides ATV's last ever announcement from the Alpha studios, mentioning her predecessors, and hands over to Mike Prince in ATV's new Paradise Centre HQ
ATV Midlands starts the day in the 1960s
Ray Moore opens ATV Midlands for the day from Alpha in Birmingham in the mid-1960s
Pat Astley welcomes us to ATV Midlands in 1965
Welcome to another great week of programmes on ATV, starting with Tingha and Tucker
John Edmunds opens ABC Midlands for the day in 1964
DX reception from Lichfield channel 8 of John Edmunds opening ABC Midlands for the day in 1964
ABC Midlands opening with Bill Steele
Bill Steele opens ABC in the Midlands for the day in the late 1960s with Perpetuum Mobile and the ABC March
You’re watching ABC…
A collection of ABC tele-snaps from the 1960s
You’re watching ATV…
A selection of ATV tele-snaps from the 1960s
The Ted Harris column
An attempt to get a publicity shot of Alpha's new frontage proves a minor disaster