As a result of this and other elements, the episode was not broadcast when The Avengers aired on American network television ; it did air on British television, but with the whipping scene edited down to one crack of the whip, due to objections made by Rediffusion Television.

Upon the merger with Rediffusion this site became the main production base for the new company Thames Television and is still in use as an independent facility, Teddington Studios.

Created for a 1967 Rediffusion series, The Seven Deadly Virtues, Orton's play dealt with charity -- especially Christian charity — in a confusion of adultery and murder.

After Merchant married the playwright Harold Pinter in 1956, she appeared in many of his plays, including the 1960 revival of his first play, The Room at the Hampstead Theatre, A Slight Ache, A Night Out, The Collection and The Lover ; the latter also a celebrated television production partnering Alan Badel at Associated Rediffusion, for which she was given an Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Newcomer and the BAFTA Award for Best Actress, both in 1963.

His first television appearance was as the lead in a Rediffusion play entitled Half Hour Story: Flowers at my Feet in 1968.

This led to a situation where a successful company could be closed down through no fault of its own ; to prevent this the governing body of ITV, the Independent Television Authority, ordered a merger with the existing London weekday company Rediffusion, with ABC having majority control of the new operation.

ATV Network Limited was ' dissolved ' as a company in 1992 ; however, just like Rediffusion, it made a strange comeback many years later.

This occurrence was seen as controversial by many and highly significant by most given Thames ' history within ITV, both as a long-standing franchisee in its own right ; its heritage from the start of the network, through its founding parents ABC and Rediffusion London ; the fact that it was one of the major contributors of content to the network ; and due to the auction method used to conduct the new ' franchise round ' – a significant change from previous rounds, brought about by the 1990 Broadcasting Act.

The Wembley studios themselves were problamatic to begin with to LWT ; the studios would need costly conversions to colour in the next few years, the workforce was slightly larger than LWT had wanted but had to employ all of the staff, and the workers who had previously worked Weekdays under Rediffusion were now working Weekends under LWT, and so wanted extra pay to cover the inconvenience.

Many employees at the new company were recruited from the Manchester and Birmingham studios of the former ABC Weekend Television and the London station Rediffusion ; the upheaval of enforced job changes on these employees combined with a relatively new management of a new ITV station and huge investment by shareholders provided fertile ground for the unions.

Coates also wrote a number of pieces that were used as television start-up music: the BBC Television March ( for BBC-TV ), was used daily from 1946 to the end of 1958 and occasionally from then until 1960, the Rediffusion March ( written as Music Everywhere ; for Associated-Rediffusion, from 1956 to 1957 ), Sound and Vision ( for ATV in London from 1955 to 1968 and in the Midlands from 1956 to 1971 ), and the South Wales and the West Television March ( for TWW from 1958 to 1968 ).

At the beginning, Associated-Rediffusion was losing money amazingly fast ; so fast, in fact, that by the end of 1956, Associated Newspapers sold 80 percent of its stake back to BET and Rediffusion at a severe loss.

By 1964, when Associated-Rediffusion changed its name to Rediffusion London, the efforts of the owners had left them sitting on a substantial cash pile ; and it is arguable that this success may have led to the 1967 decision by the Independent Television Authority to effectively break up the company.

From the 1990s on he has written music for TV programmes made by British production company Associated Rediffusion ; these include the Channel 4 series ' Inside Victor Lewis-Smith ' ( 1995 ), ' Ads Infinitum ' ( BBC2, 1999 ) and the 2003 documentary on the BBC Radiophonic Workshop ' Alchemists of Sound '.

When the infant BBC Television service was started in 1936, Rediffusion, which had supplied cable radio services since 1928, started providing " Pipe TV " to its customers who had difficulties tuning into the weak TV broadcast signal.

After many months of negotiation, agreement was reached between Hydro Quebec and Rediffusion on February 28, 1950 for an initial 5 year period.

The Rediffusion cable system was operational in 1952 and eventually supplied 80, 000 homes in Montreal Quebec.

The Erpingham Camp, Orton's take on The Bacchae, written through mid-1965 and offered to Rediffusion in October of that year, was broadcast on 27 June 1966 as the ' pride ' segment in their series Seven Deadly Sins.

By 1935 a hard wired cable-based radio network was later deployed throughout the country to broadcast the Rediffusion service directly from London to homes and business across Barbados.

The deal was worth over £ 8m ( 2008: £ 129m ) to Rediffusion.

At Last the 1948 Show is a satirical TV show made by David Frost's company, Paradine Productions ( although it was not credited on the programmes ), in association with Rediffusion London.

Just as Victor Lewis-Smith bought the rights and logo to Rediffusion many years ago, so too in 2006 " ATV Network Limited " was revived as a company brand independent of Granada and its previous archive.

The outcome proposed by the ITA was a " shotgun marriage " between ABC and Rediffusion, the resultant company being awarded the contract to serve London on weekdays.

Rediffusion had believed that their contract renewal was a ' formality ' and their application reflected this complacency: The company had treated the ITA high-handedly in interviews.

In programming, Rediffusion was originally considered stuffy but in the previous contract round of 1964, it had re-invented itself, dropping the name ' Associated Rediffusion ' in favour of the more swinging ' Rediffusion London ', to reflect the cultural changes of the time, and output altered accordingly.

A merger between the two existing contract holders Associated British Cinemas ( Television ) Limited and Rediffusion Television Limited was impossible due to internal politics as was a merger between their respective parent companies Associated British Picture Corporation and British Electric Traction.

When Thames was formed, the new company acquired the numerous properties of both the former Rediffusion and ABC.

One of these shows was the comedy Do Not Adjust Your Set, formerly Rediffusion, – nominally a children's show, but forerunner of Monty Python's Flying Circus.

This station was more highly regarded by the ITA ( amongst others ) than Rediffusion whose programming was seen as downmarket and whose management-style was viewed as high-handed.

Questioning the ITA's decision Rediffusion attempted to slow down the merger: Only the threat of giving the licence solely to ABC made it relent.

The series was originally made for black and white television by Smallfilms for Associated Rediffusion in 1958, but was later revived in 1975 when new episodes in colour were produced for the BBC.

Photogenic and with a soft spoken voice, Whyton normally wore a cardigan as he presented the children's programmes, Small Time, Lucky Dip, Tuesday Rendezvous ( on which The Beatles made their second television appearance, performing " Love Me Do "), Five O ' Clock Club, Ollie and Fred's Five O ' Clock Club and Five O ' Clock Funfair for Associated-Rediffusion and Rediffusion London.

The first television version was produced by Associated-Rediffusion ( later Rediffusion London ), while the revival was made by Thames Television ( whose arrival as the new London weekday ITV company had led to the original show's demise ).

The areas on the fringes of the transmitter coverage provided an opportunity for Rediffusion and other commercial companies to expand cable systems to enlarge the viewing audience for the one BBC television channel which then existed.

When TVB first began broadcasting, to distinguish it from the cable television broadcaster, Rediffusion Television, it was commonly known as " Wireless Television " ( Cantonese: mo sin din si ) in Chinese, although there is more than one terrestrial television station now.

This comes after the government had switched to using the wireless television, which Rediffusion was one of two ( currently four ) free-to-air stations ( the other is TVB ).

Notable stations included Radio Thamesmead ( later RTM Radio ) in southeast London, one of the first cable radio stations in the UK, which began on the Rediffusion cable system in the southeast London area in 1978.

The business gave rise to a number of other companies, including Associated-Rediffusion, later known as Rediffusion London, one of the first companies to win a terrestrial ITV ( commercial television ) franchise in the UK.

Big changes had occurred in the ITV franchises in Britain in 1968, and ABC had been forced to merge with rival company Rediffusion London to create what became one of the powerhouses of UK television production — Thames Television.

Besides his own companies, he was Chairman of Malayan Airways Ltd, Singapore Telephone Board, Malayan Banking and was on the board of directors of numerous companies including Wearne Brothers, Sime Darby, Kwong Yik Bank ( Loke Yew was one of its founders ), Great Eastern Life, H A O ' Connors Ltd, Straits Steamship Co Ltd and Rediffusion ( Singapore ) Ltd.

Nine of the 14 episodes from the first ( Rediffusion ) series were released on DVD in the UK and the US in August 2005.

In 1956 Sykes performed, wrote scripts, and acted as script editor for the pioneering Rediffusion TV comedy The Idiot Weekly, Price 2d, the first attempt to translate the humour of the Goons to television.

In 1977, Cheung won first runner-up by singing Don McLean's " American Pie " at the Asian Music Contest held by Rediffusion Television ( RTV ).

It launched in 1957 under the name Rediffusion Television as the first television station in Hong Kong.

With the arrival of the first experimental television broadcasts in the 1930s, Rediffusion began manufacturing TV sets and supplying " Pipe TV ", an early form of cable TV, service to its customers, until the cessation of television broadcasts during the Second World War.

Rediffusion Television ( RTV ) () was the first television station in Hong Kong, established on May 29, 1957, making it both the first British colony and the first predominantly Chinese city to have television.