The history of television culture and production
A restored vintage 1960s BBC outside broadcast van visited Founders Square on 20 October to coincide with the BBC’s 100th anniversary celebrations. The Department of Media Arts and the Centre for the History of Television Culture and Production invited the Broadcast Television Technology Trust Read More …
The Department of Media Arts is happy to announce excellent results in the 2021 Research Excellence Framework (REF). The department’s research outputs, which included books, journals and television productions linked to the work of the Centre, were ranked 2nd for Read More …
The ADAPT TV Project, funded by the European Research Council and led by Professor John Ellis, has won an award for best online education resource at the Learning on Screen Awards 2019 for its ‘how television used to be made’ Read More …
As part of the ADAPT project into the history of the uses of television technology, both Tim Heath and Rowan Aust have now successfully completed their PhDs on the history of British television production practices. Tim’s research focused on the Read More …
Thursday 23rd and Friday 24th November 2017 National Science and Media Museum, Bradford Pioneering ex-BBC television crews responsible for bringing colour into our homes in the late 1960s will bring TV history to life in the foyer Read More …
The ADAPT team has been busily working with the BBC on their celebrations of the 50th anniversary of regular colour broadcasting in the UK. Coverage of the project, including highlights of recently edited OB simulation footage, appears on the BBC Read More …