LEICESTER REDIFFUSION SERVICES
Malabar Road
Gerald Clode
Updated: June 2008
Leicester LE1 2PD Tel: 0533 21657
Remembering Rediffusion Leicester By :
Leicester Rediffusion HQ, Malabar Road
Shop / Showroom
Network Service Van
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Belvior Street Shop c 1969
Western Park Aerial Site ( 1968 )
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In 1968 Leicester Rediffusion reached a milestone of 10,000 Subscribers. The pictures below are staff members enjoying the celebration. Were you there ! Do you recognise anyone !
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Pictures Courtesy M H Chilton
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For more than 25 years the name Rediffusion dominated the Radio and Television market in the city of Leicester with it's cable system delivering interference-free viewing to over 11,000 homes in the city.
Rediffusion came to Leicester in 1961 operating out of a small premises in Clifford Street. In 1964 the business relocated to much larger premises in Dysart Street ( latter renamed Malabar Road ) and saw strong growth in rental subscribers through the 1970's.
The well respected service came to an untimely end in the mid 1980's when BET, the group parent company, disposed of their Rediffusion cable and TV rental businesses.
The Wired Vision (Cable) operation subsequently moved to smaller premised at Freemen’s Common under the "guise' of Rediffusion Cablevision
and continued to service the system until about 1990 under the ownership of the Maxwell Group. After the demise of the Maxwell empire in the mid '90s with debts of around $1bn, the system was abandoned.
Rediffusion offered a similar service in many major towns across the UK and in some overseas locations.
Little evidence of the system remains today but the name Rediffusion will live on in peoples memories for many years to come.
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