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- ↑ "Experiment launched in 1970s that brought cable TV to city". This is Bristol. 7 March 2011. Archived from the original on 3 June 2013. Retrieved 4 September 2013.
- ↑ Henwood, Flis; Miller, Nod; Senker, Peter; Wyatt, Sally (2002). Technology and In/equality: Questioning the Information Society. Routledge. pp. 52–53. ISBN 9780203134504.
- ↑ Fiddick, Peter (24 March 1975). "The truth implicit in Rediffusion's pull-out". The Guardian. p. 8.
