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The BBC World Service began on 19 December 1932 as the BBC Empire Service, broadcasting on shortwave [25] and aimed principally at English speakers across the British Empire. In his first Christmas Message (1932), King George V characterised the service as intended for "men and women, so cut off by the snow, the desert, or the sea, that only ...
June – The World Service launches a programming covering the Wimbledon Championships called Sportsworld at Wimbledon. The BBC World Service is broadcast regularly on FM in the UK for the first time when it begins to be carried overnight on BBC Local Radio. 1993. 20 February – The BBC Albanian service is relaunched after being off air for 26 ...
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.
BBC World Service Television, often abbreviated to WSTV (World Service Television), was the name of two BBC international satellite television channels between 1991 and 1995. It was the BBC's first foray into worldwide television broadcasting. In Europe, it was the successor to BBC TV Europe, which it replaced on 11 March 1991. [1]
10 February–11 March – The BBC Television Service is temporarily suspended for the first time since World War II due to a national fuel crisis. 9 November – The memorial service broadcast from the Cenotaph airs on the BBC Television Service, using tele-recording for the first time.
16 January – BBC World Service Television was renamed as BBC World it was launched as an international free-to-air news channel on 26 January at 19:00 GMT. 27 February – European Business News (EBN) launches. The pan-European service is broadcast from London and features rolling coverage of UK business alongside business news from Europe. 1996
It is the BBC's first full time radio service to be broadcast exclusively online, and is available only via BBC Sounds. [102] 7 December – BBC Radio Bradford launches, broadcasting on the MW frequency of BBC Radio Leeds each weekday between 6 am and 2 pm. [103] [104] 2021
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.