
On This Day...
11th May
Miscellaneous
1937
After only six months of regular TV broadcasts, the BBC took its cameras to the Coronation of King George VI. This would be the first use of the BBC's TV outside broadcast van.
Programmes
1976
The final edition of Vision On airs on BBC One.
Test Card/Teletext In-Vision Music
1983
BBC Two tape Dixie Omelette airs for the first time.

On This Day...
11th May
Births
1950
TV presenter, Jeremy Paxman.
1950
TV news reporter/presenter, Lauren Taylor.
1957
TV and radio presenter, Gill Pyrah.
Research for On This Day in TV History is by Paul R. Jackson.
Details about test card/teletext in-vision music and BBC trade test films are available as a result of decades of research and logging by members of the Test Card Circle.