Reginald Bevins News Today

A plan to transform Londons BT Tower into a luxury hotel is just the latest change in its colourful 60-year history.

The BBC, whose plans for  an experimental colour television service were turned down by the Postmaster-General last January,are reopening the matter with h

Colour TV: Not A Starter This was the headline, 61 years ago, on a story in Electronics Weekly’s edition of December 21st 1960. The story opens: BBC plans for the starting of colour TV next November and for the introduction in stages of local sound broad-casting have suffered a major setback. Mr. Reginald Bevins, Postmaster General,told Parliament last week that at present a colour television service was “just not a starter.” His TV Advisory Committee had advised against its introduction ...