Copies of several compilations from the British 1960s comedy At Last The 1948 Show, held by many to be a forerunner of Monty Python's Flying Circus, were discovered in the archives of the Swedish broadcaster SVT, to whom the producers Rediffusion London had sold them upon the companies ' loss of its broadcasting licence ( the master tapes, along with much of Rediffusion's programming, having been wiped or disposed of by their successor Thames Television ).

The former Rediffusion studios at Wembley were sold off to London Weekend Television by order of the ITA.

In 1981, Rediffusion in the UK sold 61 % of its shares in RTV to an Australian consortium.

A subsidiary company, Overseas Rediffusion, operated these stations and also sold advertising time and programming for them.

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.

The company was sold in 1988 to Hughes Aircraft, which kept the Rediffusion name until it sold the company in 1994.

The Rediffusion Jersey cable network was sold to Jersey Cable Limited ( now Newtel Solutions ) in 1988.

By the end of 1956 Associated Newspapers sold 80 % of its stake back to BET and Rediffusion at a severe loss.

Its interests in Thames Television were sold in 1985, and the rest of Rediffusion soon followed.

Rediffusion Simulation was sold in 1988 to Hughes Aircraft.

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.

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.

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.

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.

It started in 1965 as a competitor to what was then called Rediffusion Television, later to become ATV, a cable operator that charged subscription fees for its operation, and the only terrestrial competitor to TVB.

Rediffusion quickly branched out into making, renting, and selling radios, both receivers for its cable services and conventional models.

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.

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.

Rediffusion London was ordered to merge with Associated British Corporation, the holder of the weekend Midlands and North of England franchises, to form Thames Television, with ABC given the controlling interest ( despite its generally weaker financial position ) and Rediffusion holding 49 %.

The 10-year franchise of Radio Rediffusion ended its radio operation in 1959.

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.

By 1964, when Associated Rediffusion changed its name to Rediffusion London, its efforts had left it sitting on a mountain of cash.

* BET and its association with Rediffusion By Gerald K Clode

Such an induction loop receiver is classically a very small iron-cored inductor ( telecoil ), although Rediffusion demonstrated a prototype Hall-Effect system in its PLL FM system.

Formed as a joint company, it merged the television interests of British Electric Traction ( trading as Associated Rediffusion ) owning 49 %, and Associated British Picture Corporation ( trading as ABC Weekend Television ) owning 51 %.

As a result of this re-allocation of interests, ABC took a controlling 51 % interest in Thames Television, although the profits were split 50 / 50 between ABC and Rediffusion.

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.

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

During the interview process several members of Rediffusion management also appeared in interviews for applicants for other regions, principally the London Television Consortium, as well as the interview for Rediffusion, leading the ITA to question the loyalty at the company.

This left Thames with a main production base at the former ABC studios at Teddington, and with their headquarters in the former Rediffusion property Television House until 1970, when Thames ' corporate base moved to their newly constructed studios and base at Thames Television House on Euston Road.

There were just two shareholders at the company, these being the former owners of Rediffusion, British Electric Traction, and the owners of ABC, the ABPC, later to become ( via mergers ) Thorn EMI.

The LTC had planned on buying the superior Teddington Studios of ABC, but following ABC's merger with Rediffusion, London to form Thames Television, the LTC were forced by the ITA to lease Rediffusion's site at Wembley.

Having previously worked weekdays for Rediffusion, transmission staff now had to work at weekends, and as a result, wanted extra pay for the inconvenience.

Having produced the live Alexander the Mouse, and the filmed The Adventures of Ho for his employers Associated Rediffusion / ITV in partnership with Firmin, Oliver Postgate and his partner set-up Smallfilms in a disused cow shed at Firmin's home in Blean near Canterbury, Kent.

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.

He was also a relief announcer for Rediffusion London and freelanced at Westward, Thames and TVS.

However, Radio Rediffusion closed down at the end of September 1973.

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

Due to the closure of Commercial Television and the sale of Rediffusion Television ( now Asia Television ) and Television Broadcasts Limited in Hong Kong at the time, many production staff from those two television stations were hired, thus creating a basis for domestic Chinese drama series production.

He achieved an early wider fame with the non-theatregoing public in 1963 through the Associated Rediffusion series Our Man at St Mark's followed by Our Man from St Mark's and then again in 1975 through the London Weekend Television situation comedy Two's Company, in which he played an English butler, Robert, to Elaine Stritch's American character, Dorothy.

This arrangement was short-lived, he resigned from the BBC in the summer of 1964, though his period at Rediffusion London as Controller was short.

After his mother's death in 1987, Bose began working as a copy writer at Rediffusion and was later promoted to advertising creative director.

He then joined the likes of Muriel Young and Leslie Mitchell as an announcer at Associated-Rediffusion from February 1956 until the company, by then called " Rediffusion London ", lost its franchise in 1968.