The Preseli Transmitting station was built in 1962 by the Independent Television Authority to broadcast BLACK AND WHITE 405 line TV for Wales West and North (Teledu Cymru).
This was then the new commercial TV company for rural Wales.
TWW from Cardiff provided programmes for South Wales and the West Country areas (Cardiff and Bristol). Before this the only other TV available came from the single BBC channel.
So it was on the evening of Friday, September 14, 1962 that Preseli went on the air with Channel 8.
I was fortunate to be part of the small band of broadcast engineers who were involved in ensuring that those early transmissions took place.
This required that we were on duty whenever programmes were being transmitted during the day or evening (night time programmes and 24 hour broadcasting were things of the future.)
As a consequence we operated a shift…
