Key Dates in British Broadcasting
1922 - British Broadcasting Company. Financed by licence fee.
1926 - British Broadcasting Corporation
WW2 - The dominating image of the BBC during the war (indeed the dominating image of the war in Britain) was one of relentless domesticity.
1939 - BBC would 'tell the truth and nothing but the truth, even if the news was horrid'
'We shall need a lot of entertainment before this business is over' (Ian Hay, 1939)
1944 - introduction of the Third Programme
- Programme A: 'should be of the highest possible cultural level, devoted to artistic endeavour, serious documentary, educational broadcasting, and the deeper investigation of the news, corresponding in outlook to a Times of the air'
1946 - broadcasting resumed
1954 - introduction of commercial television in the UK. The oligopoly of BBC was broken by the new ITV.
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