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- The British Broadcasting Company Limited (BBC) was a short-lived British commercial broadcasting company formed on 18 October 1922 by British and American electrical companies doing business in the United Kingdom.
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The UK’s first live radio broadcast came from the factory of the Wireless Telegraph Company in Chelmsford, under the ownership of Guglielmo Marconi in June 1920. Sponsored by the Daily Mail's...
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- November 1922 - 2LO launched. Following the closure of numerous amateur stations, the BBC started its first daily radio service in London – 2LO. After much argument, news was supplied by an agency, and music drama and 'talks' filled the airwaves for only a few hours a day.
- December 1922 - John Reith appointed. Thirty-three year old John Charles Walsham Reith became General Manager of the BBC on 14 December 1922. I hadn't the remotest idea as to what broadcasting was.
- September 1923 - Radio Times first edition. The first edition of The Radio Times listed the few programmes on offer. It also provided advice for budding radio enthusiasts, and numerous advertisements by the fledgling radio industry, offering the latest in radio receiving technology.
- February 1924 - the Pips first heard. Heard on BBC radio since 1924, the six electronically generated 'pips' to indicate the Greenwich Time Signal (GTS) were invented by the Astronomer Royal Sir Frank Watson Dyson, and the Director General of the BBC John Reith.
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History. The BBC's radio services began in 1922. The British Government licensed the BBC through its General Post Office, which had original control of the airwaves because they had been interpreted under law as an extension of the Post Office services.
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John Reith, the BBC's founding father, looked westwards in the 1920s to America's unregulated,commercial radio, and then east to the fledgling Soviet Union's rigidly controlled state system....
