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The School Broadcasting Council for the United Kingdom had been set up in 1947, replacing the CCSB, and included Scotland and Wales. In 1953, 25,691 British schools were registered for school radio; 9.55am, 11am and 2pm were for primary schools; 11.20am, 2.20pm and 2.40pm were for secondary modern schools; 11.40am was for grammar schools.
The BBC began broadcasting schools programmes on television on 24 September 1957, airing in the afternoon. Morning transmissions began on 19 September 1960. Until 1972, schools programming along with adult education programmes were usually the only daytime programmes shown on both BBC and ITV, as the government regulated and restricted the ...
BBC Radio Scotland – An English-language radio station for Scotland. BBC Radio nan Gàidheal – A Scottish Gaelic language radio station. BBC Radio Orkney – A part-time radio station for Orkney which opts out of Radio Scotland. BBC Radio Shetland – A part-time radio station for Shetland which opts out of Radio Scotland.
BBC Radio Northampton 16 June 1982 Northamptonshire: Northampton — 104.2 103.6 10C 734 MW 1107 kHz (1982 - 17 April 1992) BBC Radio Suffolk 12 April 1990 Suffolk: Ipswich — 95.9 103.9 104.6 95.5 10C 720 — BBC Three Counties Radio 24 June 1985 (as BBC Radio Bedfordshire) Bedfordshire Hertfordshire Buckinghamshire: Dunstable — 90.4 92.1 ...
BBC Radio 1: New and contemporary hit music BBC: FM 97.1–99.7 12B 700 700 0101 901 BBC Radio 1Xtra: Black contemporary music BBC 12B 701 701 0127 907 BBC Radio 2: Classic and adult contemporary music BBC FM 88.1–90.2 12B 702 702 0102 902 BBC Radio 3: Classical music, drama and culture BBC FM 90.3–92.6 12B 703 703 0103 903 BBC Radio 4
September – Schools programmes on the BBC are now branded under the title of School Programmes with broadcasts limited to the morning hours. 1998. BBC Bitesize is launched as a free online study support resource for school-age pupils in the United Kingdom to aid pupils in both schoolwork and for older pupils, exams. [15] 1999
Top of the Form was a BBC radio and television quiz show for teams from secondary schools in the United Kingdom which ran for 38 years, from 1948 to 1986. The programme began on Saturday 1 May 1948, as a radio series, at 7.30pm on the Light Programme. It progressed to become a TV series from 1962 to 1975.
Children's Hour was broadcast from 1922 to 1964, originally from the BBC's Birmingham station 5IT, [1] soon joined by other regional stations, then in the BBC Regional Programme, before transferring to its final home, the new BBC Home Service, at the outbreak of the second World War. Parts of the programme were also rebroadcast by the BBC World ...