Eventi
BBC was set up as the
British Broadcasting Company
by a group of manufacturers of
wireless equipment and was
the world’s first ‘national broadcaster’General Strike. Independence
of the company was called into
question by government and
trade unions.British Broadcasting Corporation
was founded with a Royal
Charter and granted a licence
to broadcast.An experimental television service
began. A trial period for two
different technologies were used
but John Logie Baird’s mechanical
system was quickly dropped.
Electronic 405 line system
became standard.Signal could be received by 81 per cent
of the population. The television
service required a viewing licence
on top of the existing radio licence.Number of television licence
payers had risen to four and a half million.Controversial introduction of ‘commercial’ or ‘independent’ television (ITV).
It was seen as ‘vulgar’ by some middle-class audiences.BBC introduces a second channel with colour.Colour transmissions began.
The ‘switchover’ to the new 625
lines took over twenty years.The old system was finally switched off.Channel 4 went on air and widened the range of
programming and served a diverse range of
audiences not served by the BBC and ITV.
Funded via advertising revenue. It commissioned
independent companies as a ‘broadcaster-
publisher’ rather than makes its own content. It
became a third source of news and current
affairs during a period of great social unrest in
the UK.Periodi
New television service was constrained, in terms of both geographical and social ‘reach’. Limited service for the metropolitan middle class and it was a long time before
the single BBC channel was widely availableClosedown of broadcasting because of World War 2ITV companies were obliged to operate on a purely regional basis. they were only serving a distinctive community and abiding by tight regulatory controls laid down by the franchising authority.
Filmed American series became commonplace on UK television during this period and ‘live links’ via satellite introduced overseas news and joint broadcasting events.This period saw the UK introduction of satellite broadcasting and the
re-emergence of cable television, offering a variety of
channels on broadband cable.The Broadcasting Acts of 1990 and 1996 legislated
for a new television environment in which
regulation of ‘independent television’ was
loosened and Channel 4 gained control
over its ad revenue.Freeview became a joint project between BBC, BSkyB and Crown Castle. It was set up as
a free DTT service when ITV’s ONDigital service failed in 2002.
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