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  1. 24 June – Test match Cricket airs for the first time on the BBC Television Service, with coverage of the second test of The Ashes series between England and Australia, live from Lord's Cricket Ground. 1939. 4 March – The BBC Television Service airs one of the first plays to be written especially for television, Condemned To Be Shot by R. E ...

  2. Jul 4, 2014 · The morning show is now called BBC Breakfast, broadcasting from its new home in Salford, where it moved as part of the BBC's drive to spread its teams around the country. The Six O'Clock News ...

  3. 24 April – The very first children's television show For the Children. 12 May – First use of TV outside broadcast van, to cover the procession that followed the coronation of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth. 21 June – The BBC broadcasts television coverage of the Wimbledon Tennis Championships for the first time.

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    26 January 1926:First public demonstration of television to members of the Royal Institution by John Logie Baird in his London laboratory. 24–27 May 1927:Baird demonstrates long distance transmission of television pictures over telephone lines from London to Glasgow (438 miles). 20 September 1927:Baird makes first electronic image recordings onto o...

    14 March 1930:Simultaneous sound-and-vision 30-line television transmissions are made possible by a new transmitter (Brookman’s Park). 14 July 1930: First British television drama: Pirandello’s The Man with a Flower in his Mouth. March 1931:The Gramophone Company (HMV) and Columbia Graphophone Company merge to form a new company, Electrical and Mus...

    23 December 1941:Baird gives first demonstration of 600-line electronic stereoscopic television in colour. 7 June 1946:BBC television reopens after the war. July–August 1948: London hosts the 1948 Summer Olympics, the first Olympic tournament to be broadcast to home television. 17 December 1949:BBC TV Midlands transmitter opens.

    27 August 1950:First live link from the continent (Calais to London) lays the foundation for the later Eurovision network. 12 October 1951:BBC TV North transmitter opens, serving the North of England. 15 January 1952:BBC TV Scotland transmitter opens. 2 June 1953:Biggest outside broadcast to date: the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II. 22 September ...

    11 July 1962:First transatlantic satellite link via Telstar. 16 April 1964:First live link from Japan via Telstar II. 20 April 1964: BBC2 scheduled to open on 625 lines. Massive power failure in West London means gala opening night is cancelled. BBC2 opens the following morning, 21 April, with episode of Play School. 2 May 1965:First trans-Atlantic...

    29 July 1981:Biggest outside broadcast to date: the wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer (750 million viewers in 74 countries). 1 January 1982:New ITV contracts start. New companies include Central Television, TVS and TSW. 2 November 1982:Channel 4 television begins broadcasting. 17 January 1983:BBC Breakfast Time (breakfast television)...

    29 April 1990:Launch of British Satellite Broadcasting (BSB) (satellite television broadcaster). 2 November 1990:Sky and BSB merge to form BSkyB. 1 January 1993:New ITV contracts start. New companies include Carlton Television, Meridian Broadcasting, Westcountry Television and GMTV. Old companies lost in the franchise change include TV-AM, TVS, TSW...

    22 October 2002:UK’s Freeview free-to-air digital terrestrial television (DTT) service officially begins. 2 February 2004:Merger of Granada Television and Carlton Television is completed. The new company is named ITV plc. 27 May 2006:The BBC begins broadcasting in high-definition (HDTV) on their new subscription channel BBC HD. 17 October 2007:The ...

    30 March 2010:Freeview HD is launched across the UK, featuring the new Channel 4 HD. 1 October 2010:Sky launches Europe’s first stereoscopic (3DTV) television channel. 28 February 2011:Product placement is permitted on UK television for the first time. 2012–2013: The BBC sells Television Centre, and moves most of its operations from Television Cent...

  4. The first programme broadcast – and thus the first ever, on a dedicated TV channel – was "Opening of the BBC Television Service" at 15:00. [9] The first major outside broadcast was the coronation of George VI and Elizabeth in May 1937. The two systems were to run on a trial basis for six months; early television sets supported both resolutions.

  5. Oct 18, 2022 · 20 The UK’s first purpose-built broadcast centre, BBC Broadcasting House, opened in 1932. The press of the day called the cutting-edge new building in the centre of London "the brain centre of ...

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  7. Nov 10, 2021 · The BBC has come a long way since Burrows’ first announcement for 2LO. From the Corporation’s first experimental television broadcasts in 1932, to the advent of colour in 1969 and then the launch of BBC iPlayer in 2007, they have continuously pushed the boundaries of technology and challenged the definition of broadcasting.

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