The BBC
British Broadcasting Company (1922-1926)
The British Broadcasting Company Ltd (BBC) was a British commercial company formed in 1922. Daily radio broadcasts were made from various towns and cities, beginning from 2LO in London. In 1926, the company was dissolved and its assets were transferred to the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC).
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BBC Radio 1922-1930 In 1922, the first British radio station making regular entertainment broadcasts was 2MT and this led to the creation of a sister station 2LO and subsequently the BBC. 2MT closed down the following year.
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John Reith (1889-1971)
John Reith was a Scottish broadcasting executive who established the tradition of independent public service broadcasting in the United Kingdom. In 1922 he was employed by the BBC (British Broadcasting Company Ltd.) as its general manager; in 1923 he became its managing director and in 1927 he was employed as the Director-General of the British Broadcasting Corporation. His concept of broadcasting as a way of educating the masses marked for a long time the BBC and similar organisations around the world.
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Radio Times (1923-)
Radio Times is a British weekly magazine which provides radio and television listings. It was the world's first broadcast listings magazine when it was first issued on September 28, 1923, carrying details of BBC radio programmes.
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John Logie Baird (1888-1946)
John Logie Baird (1888 – 1946) was a Scottish engineer, innovator, one of the inventors of the mechanical television, demonstrating the first working television system in January 1926, and inventor of both the first publicly demonstrated colour television system, and the first purely electronic colour television picture tube.
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British Broadcasting Corporation (1927-)
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster, formed as the British Broadcasting Company Ltd (BBC) in 1922. In 1926, the company was dissolved and its assets were transferred to the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) in 1927.
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The Listener (1929-1991)
The Listener was a weekly magazine established by the BBC in 1929 which ceased publication in 1991.
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The BBC National Programme was a UK radio broadcasting service which was on the air from 1930 – when it replaced the earlier BBC radio station 5XX – until 1939, when it was subsumed into the BBC Home Service, two days before the outbreak of World War II.
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The BBC National Programme was a UK radio broadcasting service which was on the air from 1930 – when it replaced the earlier BBC radio station 5XX – until 1939, when it was subsumed into the BBC Home Service, two days before the outbreak of World War II.
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The BBC World Service, the world's largest international broadcaster, broadcasts radio and television news, speech and discussions in more than 40 languages to many parts of the world on analogue and digital shortwave platforms, Internet streaming, podcasting, satellite, DAB, FM and MW relays. Beginning as the BBC Empire Service in 1932, it became the World Service in 1965.
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The BBC Television Service (1936-1960)
The BBC began its own regular television programming from Broadcasting House, London, in August 1932. The studio moved to larger quarters in February 1934, and continued broadcasting the 30-line images, carried by telephone line until September 1935, by which time advances in all-electronic television systems made the electromechanical broadcasts obsolete. After a series of test transmissions and special broadcasts that began in August 1936, the BBC Television Service officially launched on November 2, 1936 from a converted wing of Alexandra Palace in London.
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BBC Home Service (1939-1967)
The BBC Home Service was a British national radio station that broadcast from 1939 until 1967, when it became the current BBC Radio 4.
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The BBC Forces Programme was a BBC radio station which operated between 1940 and 1944.
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BBC Light Programme (1945-1967)
The Light Programme was a BBC radio station which broadcast chiefly mainstream light entertainment and music from 1945 until 1967, when it was rebranded as BBC Radio 2.
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BBC Third Programme (1945-1967)
The BBC Third Programme was a national radio service produced and broadcast by the BBC between 1946 and 1970. It quickly became one of the leading cultural and intellectual forces in Britain, playing a crucial role in disseminating the arts. The Third Programme was rebranded to BBC Radio 3 in 1970.
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BBC for Schools and Colleges (1957-2015)
BBC Schools, also known as BBC for Schools and Colleges, is the educational programming strand set up by the BBC in 1957, broadcasting a range of educational programmes for children aged 5–16.
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BBC tv (1960-1964)
After a series of test transmissions and special broadcasts that began in August 1936, the BBC Television Service officially launched in November 1936. After ITV was launched in 1955, The BBC Television Service was renamed BBC tv in 1960 and continued to show popular programming, including comedies, drama, documentaries, game shows, and soap operas. The channel also introduced the science fiction show Doctor Who in November 1963,- which went on to become one of Britain's most iconic and beloved television programmes.
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BBC One (1964-)
BBC One is the first and principal television channel of the British Broadcasting Corporation in the United Kingdom, Isle of Man and Channel Islands. It was launched in November 1936 as the BBC Television Service, and was the world's first regular television service with a high level of image resolution. It was renamed BBC TV in 1960, using this name until the launch of the second BBC channel BBC2 in 1964, whereupon the BBC TV channel became known as BBC1, with the current spelling adopted in 1997.
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BBC Two (1964-)
BBC Two is the second flagship television channel of the British Broadcasting Corporation in the United Kingdom, Isle of Man and Channel Islands. It covers a wide range of subject matter, but tends to broadcast more "highbrow" programmes than the more mainstream and popular BBC One.
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BBC Radio 1 (1967-)
BBC Radio 1 is a British radio station operated by the British Broadcasting Corporation which also broadcasts internationally, specialising in modern popular music and current chart hits throughout the day. Radio 1 also provides alternative genres including electronica, dance, hip hop, rock and indie.
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BBC Radio 2 (1967-)
BBC Radio 2 is one of the BBC's national radio stations and the most popular station in the United Kingdom. Much of its daytime playlist-based programming is adult contemporary or AOR, although the station also broadcasts other specialist musical genres.
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BBC Radio 3 (1967-)
BBC Radio 3 is a British radio station operated by the BBC. Its output centres on classical music and opera, but jazz, world music, drama, culture and the arts also feature. The station broadcasts the BBC Proms concerts, live and in full, each summer in addition to performances by the BBC Orchestras and Singers. There are regular productions of both classic plays and newly commissioned drama.
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BBC Radio 4 (1967-)
BBC Radio 4 is a radio station owned and operated by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) that broadcasts a wide variety of spoken-word programmes including news, drama, comedy, science and history. It replaced the BBC Home Service in 1967.
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BBC Local Radio (1967-)
BBC Local Radio is the BBC's local and regional radio service for England and the Channel Islands, consisting of forty stations. They cover a variety of areas; with some serving a city and surrounding areas. The stations were launched progressively; starting with BBC Radio Leicester on November 1967, with the last station to launch being the short-lived BBC Dorset FM in April 1993.
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Children's BBC (CBBC, 1985-)
CBBC (short for Children's BBC) is a British children's television brand owned by the BBC and aimed for children aged from 6 to 12. The CBBC brand was used for the broadcast of children's programmes on BBC One on weekday afternoons and on BBC Two mornings.
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BBC Radio 5 (1990-1994)
BBC Radio 5, a BBC radio network, carried sport, children's and educational programmes from 1990 to 1994. A rolling-news and sport station, named BBC Radio 5 Live, replaced Radio 5 in March 1994.
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BBC Parliament (1992-)
BBC Parliament (previously The Parliamentary Channel) is a British free-to-air television channel which broadcasts live and recorded coverage of the House of Commons, House of Lords and Select Committees of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, the Scottish Parliament, the London Assembly, the Northern Ireland Assembly and the Welsh Assembly. The channel also broadcasts reports from the European Parliament and the annual conferences of the main political parties and the Trades Union Congress.
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BBC Radio 5 Live (1994-)
BBC Radio 5 Live is the BBC's national radio service that broadcasts mainly news, sport, discussion, interviews and phone-ins. It is the principal radio station covering sport in the United Kingdom, broadcasting virtually all major sports events staged in the UK or involving British competitors.
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BBC Learning Zone (1995-2015)
The BBC Learning Zone was an educational strand run by the BBC as an overnight service on BBC Two. It shows programming aimed at students in Primary, Secondary and Higher Education and to adult learners.
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BBC News (1997-)
BBC News is a British free-to-air television news channel. It was launched as BBC News 24 in November 1997 as part of the BBC's foray into digital domestic television channels, becoming the first competitor to Sky News, which had been running since 1989.
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