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On 13 February 1923 at 5pm, BBC broadcasting in Wales began when the British Broadcasting Company (as it then was) opened its Cardiff station. Soon after, in December 1924, the company...
Feb 13, 2023 · At 5pm on 13 February 1923, listeners in Wales tuned in for the first time to hear the BBC broadcasting from Wales for the first time. On that day, John Reith Controller of the BBC spoke...
Feb 13, 2023 · When baritone Mostyn Thomas sang traditional Welsh language folk song Dafydd y Garreg Wen on the evening of the BBC's first broadcast from Wales on 13 February, 1923, it signalled the start...
Feb 13, 2013 · From those 200 pioneering listeners to the first broadcast, it took until 1936 for Wales to reach 300,000 radio licences, a figure at which it was estimated that everyone in Wales had direct...
Feb 13, 2023 · The creation of BBC Cymru Wales came in February 1964 as a result of the report of the Pilkington committee on broadcasting. This was a government-appointed committee that considered the...
- Jamie Medhurst
Feb 13, 2023 · At 5pm on 13 February 1923, listeners tuned in to hear the BBC broadcasting from Wales for the first time. John Reith, Controller of the BBC, spoke these words: “Hello, 5WA – the Cardiff station of the British Broadcasting Company calling. This is the general manager of the company talking”.
Feb 13, 2023 · Three months after the BBC began broadcasting from its London station with the call sign 2LO, Wales had its own station – 5WA – which brought a diet of music, talks, and religious services to listeners in Cardiff, the south Wales valleys, and over the Bristol Channel in parts of the west of England.
