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1922. 18 October – The British Broadcasting Company is formed.; 14 November – Following the closure of numerous amateur stations, the first BBC broadcasts from London (station 2LO).
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.
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 ...
The first weather report was broadcast on January 14, 1923 from Manchester and the first election coverage was produced on November 15, 1922, when no broadcasting was held before 5pm or after 1am ...
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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] At 5pm on 24 December 1922, he played Father Christmas in the play 'The Truth About Father Christmas' – considered to be the first official broadcast of a radio drama.
14 November – First BBC broadcasts from London (station 2LO) and the opening day saw the broadcast of the very first BBC News bulletin. [1] Wishing to avoid competition, newspaper publishers persuaded the government to ban the BBC from broadcasting news before 7pm and to force it to use wire service copy instead of reporting on its own. [2] 1923
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