Transdiffusion Broadcasting System

About Transdiffusion Broadcasting System

Transdiffusion is dedicated to using modern methods of communication to educate and inform on broadcasting history. We do this by making available Transdiffusion's broadcasting archive for research and educational purposes.

Transdiffusion developed from a school-based tape-recording club founded in 1964. Its members communicated by sending 'radiotapes' to each other – letters recorded on reel-to-reel audiotape. This tapes usually included items recorded from television and radio.

After the fashion for 'tapesponding' ended, Transdiffusion was left with an archive of hundreds of audiotapes of television and radio material, some of it lost to the original broadcasters. A collection of printed archives about television and radio was collected at the same time, and later a large library of off-air VHS recordings from around the world.