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A plan to transform London's 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 in the near future and the matter would be reported on by the Pilkington Committee. Mr. Bevins decla...