27th January 2026
- Births
- 1949 TV announcer, Phil Fothergill.
- 1971 TV/radio weather presenter, Sarah Wilmshurst.
- 1988 TV presenter and voiceover artist, Iain Stirling.
- Deaths
- 1968 TV presenter, Maxwell Knight.
- 2015 Former TV news reporter, Ian McDougall.
- 2017 TV/radio presenter, Alastair Pirrie.
More anniversaries
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- REWIND: programmes, channels, branding, teletext, test card/in-vision teletext music, people.
- STUDIO A: broadcast buildings, studios, outside broadcast facilities.
- TX: transmitters.
Acknowledgements
Research for On This Day in TV History is by Paul R. Jackson.
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