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14 November – London radio station 2LO transfers to the British Broadcasting Company and (from 18:00 GMT) transmits its first two news bulletins. [1] 15 November Af the 1922 general election, the first following the partition of Ireland, the Conservative Party under Bonar Law wins an overall majority.
The election was the first not to be held in Southern Ireland, due to the signing of the Anglo-Irish Treaty on 6 December 1921, under which Southern Ireland was to secede from the United Kingdom as a Dominion – the Irish Free State – on 6 December 1922. This reduced the size of the House of Commons by nearly one hundred seats when compared ...
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
1922. 18 October – The British ... BBC Radio 5 Live, a dedicated news and sport network, ... BBC News 24, the corporation's UK television news service, ...
The third Daily Herald, 1922–1929 [ edit ] The Herald was the official organ of the Trade Union Congress from 1922, during which point the fledgling Labour Party brought in Hamilton Fyfe , who recruited prestigious journalists such as Douglas Cole (better known as G.D.H. Cole) and Evelyn Sharp , who were supportive of socialism.
1922 was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar, the 1922nd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 922nd year of the 2nd millennium, the 22nd year of the 20th century, and the 3rd year of the 1920s decade. As of the start of 1922, the ...
2MT was the first British radio station to make regular entertainment broadcasts, [1] and the "world's first regular wireless broadcast" for entertainment. Transmissions began on 14 February 1922 from an ex-Army hut next to the Marconi laboratories at Writtle, near Chelmsford in Essex.
The British Broadcasting Company Limited (BBC) was a short-lived British commercial broadcasting company formed on 18 October 1922 by British and American electrical companies doing business in the United Kingdom.