The Why Don't YouTube? Newsletter
Why Don't YouTube?A weekly roundup of British television's past in online video links - an extended mix of Twitter's @whydontyoutube
| Platform |  | Pricing | Only free issues | Publishes | Twice weekly |
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The Why Don't YouTube? Newsletter - August 10th-13th 2026
August 10th
30 YEARS AGO TODAY: the first of Oasis’ two nights at Knebworth, as reported on by ITN, keeping some critical remove and interviewing Pete Tong for some reason, that weekend and by The O Zone two and a half weeks later.
20 Y...
The Why Don't YouTube? Newsletter - August 7th-9th 2026
August 7th
60 YEARS AGO TODAY: It’s A Knockout brings its big cumbersome costumes and lots of water to BBC1 for the first of seventeen series, followed by four on S4C, two on Channel Five, and presumably there’d have long been another re...
The Why Don't YouTube? Newsletter - August 3rd-6th 2026
August 3rd
30 YEARS AGO TODAY: sideways social historian Ray Gosling was in a period when if he came up with an overarching sociological theme someone would commission him to make a series out of it few questions asked. That wouldn’t las...
The Why Don't YouTube? Newsletter - July 31st-August 2nd 2026
Yep, from this week we’ve done what we should have done long ago and combined the two mailouts into one time-specific look-back, still going out twice a week on Mondays and Fridays (outside the festive period and god, don’t even ask us yet...
The Why Don't YouTube? Catchup - July 24th-30th 2026
Yeah, never mind that just yet, our holy grail has (some time within the last three months but we were only alerted to it on Tuesday) landed - the full version of Richard Stilgoe’s 1974 Nationwide Pigeonhole masterwork (here from a much lat...
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