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1995 in British television – This year sees the launch of several new satellite TV channels, as well as the first National Television Awards, while Channel 5 Broadcasting Ltd is awarded the licence to run Channel 5. Father Ted also debuts on Channel 4. 1995 also sees the beginning of the sport game show They Think It's All Over.
This is a list of when the first publicly announced television broadcasts occurred in the mentioned countries. Non-public field tests and closed circuit demonstrations are not included.
The first programme broadcast – and thus the first ever, on a dedicated TV channel – was "Opening of the BBC Television Service" at 15:00. [10] 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 ...
They were initially free to receive, and Sky Movies was the first to move to a subscription early in 1990. Sky News was the UK's first dedicated news channel. The new service was the UK's first consumer satellite TV service, beating rival BSB, with which Sky would later merge to become BSkyB. Sky's satellite service grew to become a ...
11 June – First broadcast from Liverpool (relay station 6LV). 8 July – First broadcast from Leeds and Bradford (relay station 2LS). 21 July – An experimental long-wave station (5XX) is established at the Chelmsford works of the Marconi Company. 15 August – First broadcast from Kingston upon Hull (relay station 6KH).
BBC2 was the first European broadcaster to show colour programmes from 1 July 1967, ahead of ITV and BBC1, who both began broadcasting in colour from 15 November 1969. This list includes shows that were recorded in colour but whose first UK broadcast was in black-and-white; most of these shows were sold to US networks who were already ...
The world's first scheduled, high-definition (as then defined; meaning 240-line) television programmes were broadcast on 2 November 1936 by the British Broadcasting Corporation. They had been preceded by a number of low-definition BBC test broadcasts, as well as a 180-line Deutscher Fernseh Rundfunk service, from Berlin, since March 1935.
11 January – The first weather forecast with an in-vision presenter is televised in the UK. The first weather presenter was George Cowling. [15] 9 April – The Grove Family, generally considered to be the first British TV soap opera, makes its debut on the BBC Television Service. [16] [17]