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17 October – First broadcast from Bournemouth (station 6BM). 16 November – First broadcast from Sheffield (relay station 6FL). 2 December – The first BBC radio broadcast in Scottish Gaelic (relay station 2EH). 11 June – First broadcast from Liverpool (relay station 6LV). 8 July – First broadcast from Leeds and Bradford (relay station ...
The first news bulletin is read by Arthur Burrows, the company's founding Director of Programmes. 15 November: 5IT in Birmingham and 2ZY in Manchester begin broadcasting. All three BBC stations broadcast the General Election results. 14 December: John C. W. Reith is hired as the company's managing director.
1922 in British radio – The British Broadcasting Company is formed and on 14 November, the UK's first BBC broadcasts from London (station 2LO) take place. 1923 in British radio – First outside broadcast, the British National Opera Company's production of The Magic Flute from Covent Garden. 1924 in British radio –
On 14 November 1922 the station was transferred to the new British Broadcasting Company which in 1923 took up the nearby Savoy Hill for its broadcasting studios. At midnight on New Year's Eve 1923, the twelve chimes of Big Ben were broadcast for the first time to mark the new year. [1] In 1927 the company became the British Broadcasting ...
11 May – Station 2LO becomes the second radio station to broadcast regularly in the United Kingdom, operating from Marconi House in London, initially for one hour a day. . The first radio sports commentary in Britain is made on the station when Arthur Burrows describes a boxing match between Ted "Kid" Lewis and Georges Carpentier at Olymp
6 April – The first editions of PM and The World Tonight are broadcast on Radio 4. 10 April – The first broadcast of a new news and current affairs programme Analysis. 1971. No events. 1972. No events. 1973. 10 September – Newsbeat bulletins air on BBC Radio 1 for the first time. 1974. No events. 1975. 9 June – Proceedings in the ...
The British Broadcasting Company broadcast its first radio bulletin from radio station 2LO on 14 November 1922. [10] Wishing to avoid competition, newspaper publishers persuaded the government to ban the BBC from broadcasting news before 7 p.m., and to force it to use wire service copy instead of reporting on its own. [9]
Burrows was also a keen wireless enthusiast. Prior to joining the BBC he was in charge of the original experimental transmissions from Marconi House, the first 2LO station. [2] Arthur Burrows was a man of several British broadcasting 'firsts': At 6pm on 14 November 1922, he read the BBC's first-ever, on-air news bulletin. [3]