[Midlands News: 07.07.1960: Open Day At Alpha Studios]

Date
1960

Duration
00:00:46

Film Type
Black & White / Silent

Production
Professional

Genre
Television News

Summary
An open day at the Lunchbox studio at Alpha Television at Aston in Birmingham.

Description
We see the exterior of the Alpha Television Studio at Aston in Birmingham (Television Theatre). We then see a group of comedians (this may be the resident band from Lunchbox - Jerry Allen and this trio) dressed as building workers. They are then seen in a television studio with Noele Gordon, the presenter of the ATV daytime magazine programme Lunchbox. A crowd of spectators can be seen standing outside.

Credits
No Credits Specified

Production Company
ATV

Notes
Story number 2605. Alpha Television was a combined studio and transmission operation between ATV and ABC that broadcast commercial television to the Midlands between 1956 and 1969. Lunchbox was broadcast by ATV from 1957 to the end of 1963. The building work that is visible may be for the extension to the studios that took place around this time.

Tags
Broadcasting, Media

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