BBC announce the arrival of television in 1956

IN 1956 it was announced that the North would have television within a year.

Speaking on Saturday at the opening of the second Ideal Homes and Trades Exhibition, which is being held in the Northern Meeting Rooms, Inverness, Mr Melville Dinwiddie, regional controller for Scotland of the BBC, announced that test programmes from the new television station under construction at Rosemarkie would be made early next year, and that regular transmissions would proceed shortly afterwards. "Everybody in the area who intended to have television in their homes should make preparations now," he said.

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