TV Live

TV Live is a website dedicated to the history of UK and International television presentation from the 1950′s right up to the present day. It was born on 28th June 2007 consisting of just three pages of thumbnails. Since then the site has grown to well over 1000 pages of images and videos. TV Live is run by a group of volunteers passionate about the preservation of television presentation.

The site has had a difficult history; in the early days, there were many problems with hosting and technical issues. The site was forced to shut down in June 2009 due to a server crash causing us to lose all our content. Now the site shares hosting with TV Whirl and the site now goes from strength to strength.

The latest version of the website (branded ‘paper’) was launched on 26th April 2011. A new look to TV Live is expected to launch in September 2012.

From launch, TV Live was powered by Website Baker, but due to security issues and a lack of stable updates, the entire site was moved to WordPress in August 2011.

Most of the footage on TV Live is captured from old VHS tapes and even Betamax tapes.