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Daily Archive: Tuesday, 4 October 1955

Sellers Peter Out

The BBC yesterday opened its experimental television service for the Channel Islands according to The Times. It notes that the signal is received at Guernsey and relayed from there to Jersey and the first reports are that reception is “quite satisfactory”.

Transmissions are also of interest to “Six members of the Soviet broadcasting organisation,” who according to The Times, “who are coming to London this week as guests of the BBC will be enabled to study all aspects of the BBC system including television, domestic sound broadcasting, the external services, and the technical services. They will visit one or more BBC transmitters.” (more…)