[…] were awarded the franchise at the beginning of ’54.Daphne Shadwell DRAFT Page 46So you both went to AR? Association Rediffusion.DS: It was Associated Rediffusion. And then what was Central called? JPH: ATV.DS: ATV. Did they start at the same time?JPH: Yes. Weekend in London and Midweek in[…]
[…]et john. But yes, you came and we're working on that.John P Hamilton 30:05 That's To recap, the company I was working for at the time was associated Rediffusion. For bill chief as your contact was chief engineer, as you rightly say, we were recruited on the basis that we took our leave f[…]
[…] when they first started, and the other one was for Associated Rediffusion. So I thought, "I'm going to write another letter." […]
[…]he end of the flyer and there were two addresses. One was for ABC, which was the name that ATV had when they first started, and the other one was for Associated Rediffusion. So I thought, "I'm going to write another letter." So on the way home I sketched out a letter on the train and wrote it out pr[…]
[…]ng in the reference library there they recruited somebody to the staff who came to be shown round all the areas of the library and she had worked for Associated-Rediffusion which was the first independent television company and she had been reluctant to leave there but she had to widen her professio[…]
[…]w who were the nice people in the village didn't want to know us, we were just the schoolmasters family whereas the people with whom we were normally associated we didn't want to have anything to do with. So we were in effect very isolated in that village and I think that probably may have had[…]
[…]n that. Mr. Jones, who just retired from Fox British, met me one day, and I said, Oh, I'm job hunting. He said, Well, Fox Studios have been bought by associated Rediffusion. Write to them, and he said, I'll find the name of the man that you write to, which he did and I wrote, went up and saw them an[…]
[…]ely lady. She reminded me very much of Peggy Bacon, whom I'd worked with in radio. And the other thing that I enjoyed doing and feel very proud to be associated was with was working with a man called John Hunter Blair come from BBC, Scotland, to experiment with programmes for schools on television. […]
[…] to say that our programme was late. It was, I suppose, 11 o’clock, before we could get all those people together. Earlier in the evening Rediffusion had done a programme on ITV, and the Producer of that was Milton Shulman, and Milton had got together George Brown, that Canadian actor El[…]
