Take your holiday at home with #ABCWeekend this week in 1957.

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BOTH SIDES OF THE CAMERA

Our microsite goes behind the scenes of :abcweekend: #ABCWeekend TV in 1960

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LEICESTER WOMAN (70) KISSES ITV ANNOUNCER – AT BIRMINGHAM STUDIO

The Leicester Illustrated Chronicle takes a viewer to meet #ABCWeekend's John Edmunds in 1958 :abcweekend:

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David Hamilton and John Duncanson host #ABCWeekend North at Christmas in a studio with viewer-sent Christmas cards lining the studio wall.

An #ABCWeekend Outside Broadcast unit (and a #GPO television OB support vehicle) at the start of this 1967 Pathé News feature. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCAHS8-3ng4

#Christmas on #Transdiffusion

• Christmas Day: #ATV's Emergency – Ward 10's 500th episode in 1962 in detail!

• Boxing Day: A comprehensive review of the changes to #TV schedules on the day of #QueenElizabeth's funeral.

• New Year's Eve: Geoff Nash explains 2023 #television to the viewer of 1936.

• New Year's Day: Inside #ABCWeekend's The Human Jungle as the series launches in 1963.

Down With Aerials! Pathé News (Trevor Lucas announcing?) reports on a joint #ABCWeekend and #Telefusion plan to wire up #cableTV in #Chesterfield, previously an off-air blackspot. Note the ABC extended #ident music over the opening titles! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wiz-gM4Xz3Y

What films should you watch on #ITV in the #Midlands over Christmas? In 1964, #ATV's Jill Bechley recommends The Pride and the Passion on Christmas Day. #ABCWeekend's John Benson says The Prince and the Showgirl on Boxing Day, whilst his colleague John Edmunds goes for Kind Hearts and Coronets on Christmas Sunday. https://transdiffusion.org/2016/12/25/announcers-choice/

It's Christmas Week 1958 and #ABCWeekend's Outside Broadcast fleet, based in #Manchester, are rushing hither and yon to get live pictures to the #ITV network from Lincolnshire.

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