Timeline of the BBC

This is a timeline of the history of the British Broadcasting Corporation.

Contents 1 1920s 2 1930s 3 1940s 4 1950s 5 1960s 6 1970s 7 1980s 8 1990s 9 2000s 10 2010s 11 See also 12 References 13 External links

1920s

• 1922
  • 18 October - The British Broadcasting Company is formed.
  • 14 November - First BBC broadcasts from London (station 2LO).
  • 15 November - First broadcasts from Birmingham (station 5IT) and Manchester (station 2ZY).
  • 24 December - First broadcast from Newcastle upon Tyne (station 5NO).
• 1923
  • 8 January - First outside broadcast, the British National Opera Company's production of The Magic Flute from Covent Garden.
  • 18 January - The UK Postmaster General grants the BBC a licence to broadcast.
  • 13 February - First broadcast from Cardiff (station 5WA).
  • 6 March - First broadcast from Glasgow (station 5SC).
  • 28 September - First publication of the Radio Times listings magazine (price 2d).
  • 10 October - First broadcast from Aberdeen (station 2BD).
  • 17 October - First broadcast from Bournemouth (station 6BM).
  • 16 November - First broadcast from Sheffield (station 2FL).
• 1924
  • 28 March - First broadcast from Plymouth (station 5PY).
  • 23 April - First broadcast by King George V, opening the British Empire Exhibition at Wembley Stadium.
  • 14 September - First broadcast from Belfast (station 2BE).
• 1925
  • First BBC shortwave transmissions are broadcast from Daventry's Borough Hill.
• 1926
  • 4 May - The General strike begins. The BBC broadcasts five news bulletins a day as no newspapers are published.
  • 25 July - The previously experimental long-wave station 5XX moves from Chelmsford to Daventry and becomes the first station to achieve near national coverage. The Daventry station will later become the main transmitter of the BBC National Programme.
• 1927
  • 1 January - The British Broadcasting Company becomes the British Broadcasting Corporation, when it is granted a Royal Charter. Sir John Reith becomes the first Director-General.
  • 15 January - First live sports broadcast on the BBC. The rugby union international England v Wales is commented on by Teddy Wakelam.
  • 22 January - First live football match broadcast, featuring Arsenal's home league fixture against Sheffield United from Highbury.^[1]
  • March - The BBC coat of arms is adopted
  • 7 July - Christopher Stone presents a record programme, becoming the first British disc-jockey.
  • 21 August - The first high-powered regional station (5GB), forerunner of the Midland Regional Programme, opens at Daventry.
• 1929
  • 20 August - First transmissions of John Logie Baird's experimental 30-line television system.

1930s

• 1930
  • 14 July - Transmission of the first experimental television play, The Man With the Flower in His Mouth.
  • 30 September - Number of radio licences reaches 12 million "or roughly every second home in the country".^[2]
• 1932
  • 1 May - Broadcasting House, the BBC's headquarters and home to its main radio studios, is opened.
  • 22 August - First experimental television broadcast from Broadcasting House.
  • 19 December - The Empire Service (precursor of the World Service) launches.
  • 25 December - King George V becomes the first monarch to deliver a Christmas Day message by radio, on the Empire Service.
• 1936
  • 2 November - The BBC opens the world's first regular high-definition television service, from Alexandra Palace.
• 1937
  • 12 May - First use of TV outside broadcast van, for the coronation procession of King George VI.
  • 21 June - The BBC broadcasts television coverage of the Wimbledon Tennis Championships for the first time.
  • 16 September - BBC television broadcasts world's first live football match, a specially arranged fixture between Arsenal and Arsenal reserves.^[3]
• 1938
  • 3 January - The BBC begins broadcasting its first foreign-language radio service, in Arabic.
  • 30 April - The BBC broadcasts television coverage of the FA Cup for the first time.
  • 27 September - Start of the European Service on radio, broadcasting in French, German and Italian. Portuguese and Spanish are added before the start of the Second World War.
• 1939
  • 1 September - The BBC Television Service is suspended, about 20 minutes after the conclusion of a Mickey Mouse cartoon (Mickey's Gala Premiere), due to the imminent outbreak of the Second World War, amid fears that the VHF transmissions would act as perfect guidance beams for enemy bombers attempting to locate central London - also, the technicians and engineers of the service will be needed for war efforts such as the RADAR programme. On radio, the Home Service replaces the National and Regional Programmes.

1940s

• 1940
  • 7 January - Start of the BBC Forces Programme on radio, precursor of the post-war Light Programme.
  • 11 May BBC starts Hindi news service.
• 1944
  • 27 February - BBC General Forces Programme replaces the BBC Forces Programme (also broadcast on shortwave).
• 1945
  • 29 July - Regional radio programming resumes, and the Light Programme starts.
• 1946
  • 7 June - BBC Television broadcasts (405 lines) resume after the war. One of the first programmes shown is the Mickey Mouse cartoon from 1939.
  • 29 September - The Third Programme starts broadcasting on radio.
• 1947
  • 7 October 1947 - Adelaide Hall singing at a RadiOlympia variety show is the oldest surviving telerecorded programme in Britain.^[4]
  • 9 November - First use of telerecording of an outside broadcast: the Service of Remembrance from the Cenotaph is televised live, and a telerecording shown that evening.^[4]
  • 20 November - The wedding of Princess Elizabeth and Philip Mountbatten, Duke of Edinburgh is televised by the BBC.^[4] Its watched by an estimated 400,000 viewers.
• 1948
  • 29 July - The London Olympic Games is televised.
  • 26 December - The first Reith Lecture is broadcast on radio.

1950s

• 1950
  • 21 May - Lime Grove television studios open.
  • 27 August - First live television from the European continent, using BBC outside broadcast equipment.
• 1951
  • 1 January - First broadcast of The Archers, now the world's longest-running soap opera.
• 1953
  • 2 June - The coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in Westminster Abbey is televised by the BBC and watched live by an estimated audience of 20 million people in the United Kingdom.
• 1955
  • 2 May - The BBC begins broadcasting its radio service on VHF (FM), using the Wrotham transmitter.
  • 10 October - Alexandra Palace begins test transmissions of a 405-line colour television service.
• 1956
  • 28 March - Television transmissions begin from the new Crystal Palace site in south London.
• 1957
  • 25 December - First TV broadcast of the Queen's Christmas Day message.
• 1958
  • 5 May - First experimental transmissions of a 625-line television service.
  • 16 October - First broadcast of the United Kingdom's longest-running children's television show Blue Peter.

1960s

• 1960
  • 29 June - BBC Television Centre opens in Shepherd's Bush.
• 1962
  • 4 January - popular sit-com Steptoe and son begins
  • 28 August - Experimental stereo radio broadcasts begin.
• 1963
  • 30 September - A globe is used as the BBC Television Service's logo for the first time.
  • 23 November - First broadcast of the world's longest-running science fiction television programme, Doctor Who.
• 1964
  • 21 April - BBC2 starts broadcasting (on 625 lines), it was originally planned to broadcast the previous day but a major power failure foiled that plan; the existing BBC Television Service is renamed to BBC1.
• 1965
  • 1 May - The General Overseas Service is renamed to the BBC World Service.
• 1967
  • 25 June - The first worldwide live satellite programme, Our World, featuring the Pop band, the Beatles, is televised.
  • 1 July - Experimental colour TV transmissions (625 lines) begin on BBC Two, starting with the Wimbledon tennis championships.
  • 30 September - BBC Radio 1 is launched, as a response to the threat from pirate radio station broadcasts of popular music. At the same time the Light, Third and Home services are renamed Radios 2, 3 and 4.
  • 8 November - BBC Local Radio starts. The first station is BBC Radio Leicester.
  • 2 December - Colour television officially launched on BBC2.
• 1969
  • 15 November - BBC1 starts broadcasting in colour (simultaneous with rival ITV). First appearance of the Mirror Globe, coloured blue on black.

1970s

• 1971
  • 3 January - Open University programmes start on both radio and television.
  • BBC adds stereo capability to Radio 3, with new technology called Pulse Code Modulation.
• 1972
  • 23 October - The BBC announces that development work has begun on the Ceefax teletext service.
  • BBC adds stereo capability to Radio 2.
• 1973
  • March - Experimental Ceefax teletext transmissions begin.
  • BBC adds stereo capability to Radio 4.
• 1974
  • 5 July - A quadrasonic (4-channel) radio programme goes out at midnight, using Radio 4 to carry the two front channels and Radio 3 to carry the two rear channels.
  • 23 September - Regular Ceefax teletext service begins.
  • December - BBC 1 mirror globe changes colour to yellow on blue.
• 1978
  • 3 April - Regular radio broadcasts from Parliament begin.
  • 23 November - The BBC's radio stations switch medium wave frequencies: Radio 1 moves from 247 m (1214 kHz) to 275 and 285 m (1089 and 1053 kHz), Radio 2 moves from 1500 m (200 kHz long wave) to 330 and 433 m (909 and 693 kHz), Radio 3 moves from 464 m (647 kHz) to Radio 1's old frequency, and Radio 4 moves to Radio 2's old frequency. [2]
• 1979
  • 27 January - Radio 2 is the first BBC radio station to broadcast 24 hours a day. Its final nighttime closedown is at 2.00 on this date; from the next day onwards, "You, the night and the music" fills the "small hours" between 2.00 and 5.00. [3]
  • 2 September - Subtitling of television programmes on Ceefax begins.

1980s

• 1980
  • November - The charity appeal Children in Need is launched.
• 1981
  • 7 June - first air of Managing the Micro on BBC-1 (shot 15 May^[5])
  • 29 July - The Wedding of Prince Charles & Lady Diana Spencer is produced by BBC Television & Radio with an audience of 750 million viewers and listeners in over 60 countries. Welsh Actor Richard Burton and Scottish writer, actor & Royal expert Tom Fleming are among the commentators.
  • Autumn - BBC Micro is produced for BBC Computer Literacy Project.
  • 5 September - BBC 1 Mirror globe changes colour to green on blue.
• 1983
  • 17 January - BBC Breakfast Time - the UK's first breakfast television service - is launched, ahead of the ITV franchise TV-am, which follows on 1 February and Sixty Minutes 24 October
• 1985
  • 23 January - Television coverage of proceedings in the House of Lords begins.
  • 18 February - BBC One is given a major relaunch, along with the introduction of a new ident, the COW (Computer Originated World).
  • 19 February - EastEnders premieres on BBC One, with the death of Reg Cox.
  • 13 July - Live Aid is broadcast to the world on BBC One and BBC Radio 1, the first broadcast of its kind.
• 1986
  • 1 April - All commercial activities of the BBC are now handled by BBC Enterprises Ltd.
  • 27 October - BBC One starts a full daytime television service. Before today, excluding special events coverage, BBC One had closed down at times during weekday mornings and afternoons broadcasting trade test transmissions and, from May 1983, pages from Ceefax.
• 1988
  • 1 September - BBC External Services is renamed the World Service, and Radio 1 starts regular broadcasts on VHF in Scotland, northern England, the Midlands, and south Wales, Avon and Somerset, between 97-99 MHz. [4] (Crystal Palace has been broadcasting R1 on 104.8 MHz since October 1987, and would later switch to 98.8 MHz at 11.00 on 19 December 1989. [5])
  • 20 September - The Radio Data System (RDS) launches, allowing car radios to automatically retune, display station identifiers and switch to local travel news.
• 1989
  • 21 November - Television coverage of proceedings in the House of Commons begins.

1990s

• 1990
  • 27 August - Radio 5 begins broadcasting.
  • 5 September - New BBC building at White City opens.
• 1991
  • 16 January - Radio 4 News FM starts Gulf War broadcasts on BBC Radio 4 FM frequencies.
  • 16 February - BBC One and BBC Two receive new idents generated from laserdisc, BBC One with a '1' encased in a swirling globe, and BBC Two with eleven idents based around the numeral '2'.
  • 2 March - Radio 4 News FM closes and BBC Radio 4 returns to FM.
  • 15 April - The World Service Television News service is launched. Unlike World Service radio which is funded by direct grant from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, WSTV is commercially funded and carries advertising, which means that it cannot be broadcast in the UK.
  • 31 July - The BBC's Lime Grove Studios close.
  • 31 August - BBC television starts officially broadcasting in stereo using the NICAM system. (Some transmtters had been broadcasting in stereo since 1986, but these were classified as tests.)
  • 14 October - World Service TV launches its Asian service.
• 1992
  • 21 January - BBC Select launched overnight as a subscription service.
  • 29 February - BBC Radio 3 ceases broadcasting on medium wave (AM)
  • 1 November - The satellite TV channel UK Gold, run by the BBC with Thames Television, starts broadcasting.
• 1994
  • First BBC website created for the BBC Two series The Net.
  • 27 March - Radio 5 ends transmission.
  • 28 March - BBC Radio Five Live, a dedicated news and sport network, starts round-the-clock broadcasts.
  • 1 July - Radio 1 ceases broadcasting on medium wave (AM) at 9.00.
  • July - Arabic television service launched with funding from the Saudi Arabian Mawarid Group.
• 1995
  • 16 January - World Service Television is renamed BBC World at 20.00.
  • 30 January - BBC Prime launched as a global channel by BBC Enterprises.
  • BBC Enterprises, the BBC's commercial arm, restructured as BBC Worldwide Ltd.
• 1996
  • 21 April - Arabic television closes down when the Saudi backer pulls out following a row over coverage of the execution of a princess accused of adultery.
  • June - Radio 1 starts live streaming on the internet.^[6]
  • 7 June - The BBC is restructured by the Director-General, John Birt. In the new structure BBC Broadcast will commission programmes, and BBC Production will make them.
  • 29 December - What was billed as the last ever episode of Only Fools and Horses is watched by 24.35 million viewers, the largest ever TV audience for a sitcom.
• 1997
  • The BBC broadcasts the much praised "Perfect Day" corporate advertisement, featuring 27 artists singing lines of Lou Reed's original. The song later becomes a fund-raising single for Children in Need.
  • 28 February - The BBC sells its transmitters and transmission services to Castle Transmission Services for £244 million, to help fund its plans for the digital age.
  • 6 September - The funeral of Diana Princess of Wales is presented on BBC Radio & Television and aired to over 200 countries worldwide. Nearly 3 billion viewers and listeners watch the ceremonies. In the USA, BBC's coverage is aired on A&E and CSPAN Cable Networks, while History Channel airs coverage from competing Sky News. David Dimbleby hosts the BBC coverage with Tom Fleming narrating the service inside Westminster Abbey.
  • 4 October - Current corporate identity adopted. At a reported cost of £5m the new logo was introduced due to the increase in digital services, as it is designed to be more visible at small size it is better suited for use in websites and on screen "DOGs." On Screen Identities changed, with BBC One adopting the Balloon Idents, and BBC Two retaining their 2's used from 1991, with new legend.
  • 8 November - The last ever closedown on BBC One. From the following day, BBC One broadcasts 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, with BBC News 24 filling the early hours.
  • 9 November - BBC News 24, the Corporation's UK television news service, is launched at 17.30.
  • November 1997 - BBC News Online, a web-based news service, begins to expand and become more popular.
  • December 1997 - BBC Online, BBC's web presence, officially launched.
• 1998
  • August - The BBC's domestic TV channels become available on Sky Digital's satellite service. An unintended consequence of this is that people in the rest of Europe can now watch BBC One and Two, using viewing cards from the UK, as the signal is encrypted for rights reasons. This applies even within the UK: people in England can now watch BBC channels from Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, and vice versa.
  • 23 September - The BBC launches BBC Choice, its first new TV channel since 1964, available only on digital TV services. The BBC Parliament TV channel also starts broadcasting on digital services.
  • 15 November - Public launch of digital terrestrial TV in the UK.
• 1999
  • 10 May - BBC network news relaunched with new music, titles and a red and ivory set. This design was used for the October 25 relaunch of News 24 - enhancing cross-channel promotion of the service.
  • 20 May - The BBC's digital teletext service starts.
  • 1 June - BBC Knowledge starts broadcasting on digital services.

2000s

• 2000
  • 15 September - Final edition of Breakfast News on BBC One and BBC News 24, the last conventional news broadcast in the morning.
  • 2 October - The first edition of Breakfast is broadcast, the new morning show on BBC One and News 24 from 6:00-9:30. (9:00 on BBC News 24), from daily.
  • 15 October - Final edition of the BBC Nine O'Clock News on BBC One. Next day the programme controversially moved to Ten O'Clock News.
  • 16 October - Oxfordshire, once part of the South East, becomes part of South Today.

• 2001
  • 3 March - Bomb explodes outside Television Centre. The blast was later attributed to dissident Irish Republican terrorists and it is suggested the BBC Panorama programme which named individuals as participants in the Omagh bomb was the motive.
  • 3 September - Kent and Sussex get their own news programme, South East Today.
  • 1 October - BBC London is launched, replacing Newsroom South East.
  • 19 November - Last showing of current BBC Two idents. These set of idents would have ended in 1997 with BBC One's ident change but due to popularity the 1991 idents continued only with a new BBC logo and some newer ident sets. The new idents were Ivory 2's, interacting in a yellow world, with Purple box logo, the first BBC Channel to have one.

• 2002
  • 11 February - CBBC Channel and CBeebies begin broadcasting on the major digital television platforms: Freeview (digital terrestrial), digital cable and Sky Digital (digital satellite).
  • 2 March - BBC Four is launched at 19:00 in a simulcast with BBC Two. It replaces BBC Knowledge.
  • 29 March - BBC One rebrands with the controversial Rhythm and Movement Idents, including Dancers in Red dancing in different locations. The red box logo was also used for these idents.

• 2003
  • 9 February - BBC Three is launched at 19:00 in a simulcast with BBC Two. It replaces BBC Choice.
  • 8 December - BBC News 24 relaunched again with a new set and titles, as well as a new Breaking News sting. Networked news on BBC One and Two remains with the same titles though the set was redesigned in a similar style to that of the new News 24.

• 2004
  • 28 January - Publication of the Hutton Inquiry, and subsequent resignation of the Chairman Gavyn Davies.
  • 30 January - Resignation of the Director General, Greg Dyke. Mark Byford takes over as acting Director General.
  • 16 February - Network news titles relaunched in the style of BBC News 24, introduced two months earlier.
  • 17 May - Appointment of Michael Grade as new Chairman
  • 21 May - Appointment of Mark Thompson as new Director General
  • 5 July - 50th Anniversary of television news broadcasts.
  • 1 October - BBC Technology, incorporating the BBC's Broadcast Engineering division, is sold to Siemens AG Business Services for approximately £200m, and a £2bn, 10 year outsourcing contract.

• 2005
  • 20 March - Mark Thompson announces staff of 27,000 to be cut by 3,780.
  • 23 May - Over one third of staff join strike in response to job cuts n:BBC drops programmes as third of staff join strike.
  • 1 August - BBC Broadcast, formerly Broadcasting & Presentation and responsible for the playout and branding of all BBC Channels, is sold to Creative Broadcast Services, owned by the Macquarie Capital Alliance Group and Macquarie Bank. It is renamed Red Bee Media on 31 October.
  • December - Czech and Polish sections of the BBC World Service cease to exist. Eight other sections are to follow soon.

• 2006
  • 27 May - The BBC's first scheduled HDTV broadcast on BBC HD
  • 14 August - The One Show first broadcast on BBC One and was a modern day version of highly popular series Nationwide. Popular journalism returned to BBC One early evening schedule.
  • 1 September - BBC Entertainment replaces BBC Prime in global markets.
  • 7 October - BBC One rebrands from the Rhythm and Movement idents to the current Circle Idents.
  • 28 November - Resignation of Chairman Michael Grade, to join ITV.
  • 31 December - The BBC's then-current Royal Charter and Agreement expired.

• 2007
  • 22 January - BBC News 24 re-relaunched with new titles and new Astons.
  • 18 February - BBC Two rebrands from the yellow 2's, to the current Window on the World 2's.
  • July - BBC Knowledge launched as a global channel by BBC Worldwide.
  • 3 September - CBBC identity relaunched, with its third marketing campaign since the launch of the CBBC Channel.
  • 20 October - BBC Switch teenage block of shows is launched to cater for the under-served 12-16 year olds.
  • 25 December - BBC iPlayer an online service for watching previously aired shows is launched

• 2008
  • 22 January - BBC Three has its identity relaunched, showcasing new shows such as Lily Allen and Friends.
  • 21 April - Name changes for BBC News 24 and BBC World. Now BBC News and BBC World News.
  • 19 September -BBC Alba, a Scottish Gaelic language digital television channel, launched through a partnership between BBC and MG ALBA.
  • 16 October - Blue Peter reaches fifty years old on BBC One with a live celebration at BBC Television Centre.

• 2009
  • 14 January- BBC's Persian language news channel was launched

2010s

• 2010
  • 19 February - EastEnders celebrates 25 years with a special live edition, where the murderer of Archie Mitchell is revealed. Over 16 million viewers tuned in to find Stacey Slater to be the killer.
  • August/September - The One Show received new presenters, Jason Manford, Alex Jones and Chris Evans, who take over from Christine Bleakley and Adrian Chiles who now present Daybreak on ITV.
  • 9/10 September - One of EastEnders well known characters "Peggy Mitchell" (portrayed by Barbara Windsor) leaves the show after 16 years. A storyline involving "The Queen Victoria" being burnt down, and making an emotional walk out of Albert Square.
  • 3 November - BBC One HD; a high-definition simulcast of a national version of BBC One is launched across all digital platforms.

• 2011
  • 29 April - The Wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton takes place, with the BBC airing the ceremonies across its radio, TV and online platforms in the UK.

See also

• Early television stations
• BBC Archives

References

External links

• The BBC Story

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