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Timeline of BBC history
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The BBC was formed by a team of wireless manufacturers
Daily broadcasting began in the Strand
John Reith became General Manager of the BBC
First edition of the Radio Times
BBC established by Royal Charter as the British Broadcasting Corporation Sir John Reith became the first Director General
John Logie Baird broadcast some of his first TV broadcasts from the studios near Covent Garden, London It was black and white, flickered and made up of 30 lines definition
Broadcasting House opens
King George V becomes the first monarch to broadcast on the radio
The Type 'A' microphone was invented
The BBC becomes the first broadcaster to provide HD content
The first broadcast outside: The cameras were taken to King George VI's coronation
The first foreign broadcaster was employed from an Egyptian radio show, speaking Arabic
Desert Island Discs were presented
Woman's Hour - First radio programme for women presented
Children’s television service was created after the war - one of its earliest successes was Muffin The Mule.
News was first broadcast on TV
The first Olympics games (London) was televised
Weather broadcasts were revived after the war
The Archers' (the world's longest running soap opera) trial began
An experiment to televise live debate from the Commons was considered successful, but the public could not see it
Vision Electronic Recording Apparatus –V.E.R.A., has been billed as the first video tape recorder
Queen Elizabeth's coronation was the first to be broadcast live
The Radiophonic Workshop was established
Blue Peter began
The television centre opened
The first and most successful sci-fi show, Doctor Who, was aired
The Forsyte Saga evolutionised costume drama
'Our World' - Pictures by satellite had been received by the BBC
BBC TWO - the first full colour TV service in Europe
Radio 1 was aired for the first time
The Open University goes on air
Newsround - The first children’s TV news bulletin
The Family - the first ‘fly-on-the-wall’ documentary
Designed by BBC engineers to provide subtitles for the deaf, CEEFAX (derived from 'see-facts') was the first teletext service in the world.
Life On Earth - natural history programmes had been seen before, until David Attenborough started this series that the genre really took off
The Wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana - The wedding had an estimated global TV audience of 750 million
The BBC Microcomputer was launched
Breakfast Time – the UK’s breakfast TV service was first broadcast
EastEnders - the BBC's most watched programme ever was first aired
Live Aid was organised by Bob Geldof and Midge Ure to raise funds for Ethiopia famine relief.
DAB was promoted heavily by the BBC, and as a result was taken up more rapidly in the UK than anywhere else in Europe
The BBC News 24 Channel was the second 24 hour news service in Britain - the first for the BBC
bbc.co.uk was launched
The first BBC digital TV channel - this then later became BBC Three
Come Dancing returns as 'Strictly' - The original Come Dancing ran between 1949 and 1998, but only reached cult status when it was re-launched as Strictly Come Dancing in 2004
The first BBC sci-fi show, Doctor Who, was relaunched into a modern era of sci-fi
BBC iPlayer - streaming technology had developed sufficiently to offer whole TV programmes online
BBC Pacific Quay – the first all-digital BBC centre was opened
BBC Arabic and BBC Persian Television were created
Red Button - Video on demand, the ability to answer quiz questions, and background programme information are just some of the features now on offer
Super Hi-Vision (SHV) pictures were first broadcast from London to Tokyo from BBC studios
The 125th anniversary of the Wimbledon Tennis Championships was marked with the UK’s first live 3D coverage of the men's and ladies' singles finals
London 2012 Olympics - The BBC delivered its most successful online event ever, which attracted a record-breaking 55m global browsers to BBC Sport online
Available across multiple platforms, BBC iPlayer Radio was launched
BBC Connected Red Button is a new service from the BBC that seamlessly brings TV, radio and online together