THE GREAT MULLARD MAGIC BLOG — tv

Don't you just love this American advert from 1951, even then just like now you could buy a TV antenna from Tesco!! The British store Tesco however, was founded by Jack Cohen, the son of Jewish migrants from Poland in 1919 when he began to sell war-surplus groceries from a stall at Well Street Market, Hackney in the East End of London.   The Tesco brand name first appeared in 1924 after Jack Cohen bought a shipment of tea from Thomas Edward Stockwell. He made new labels using the initials of the supplier's name (TES), and the first two letters of his...

My 7 year old niece Ellie was bemoaning the fact that the family telly only had one remote control and isn’t it a pity that she couldn’t switch channels using her ‘tablet’ !@£$.     There then followed a “kids of today speech” where both nephew & niece were astounded that tellies were black and white, had an 18-inch screen only three channels and no such thing as a remote control back when I was their age.  This little dialogue got me thinking and so led to this blog entry on the subject of remote control in general as well as remote...