Events
The BBC was formed by a team of
wireless manufacturersDaily broadcasting began in the StrandJohn Reith became General Manager of the BBCFirst edition of the Radio TimesBBC established by Royal Charter as the
British Broadcasting Corporation
Sir John Reith became the first Director
GeneralJohn 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 definitionBroadcasting House opensKing George V becomes the
first monarch to broadcast
on the radioThe Type 'A' microphone
was inventedThe BBC becomes the first
broadcaster to provide HD contentThe first broadcast outside:
The cameras were taken to King George
VI's coronationThe first foreign broadcaster was
employed from an Egyptian radio
show, speaking ArabicDesert Island Discs were presentedWoman's Hour - First radio programme
for women presentedChildren’s television service was
created after the war - one of its
earliest successes was Muffin The Mule.News was first broadcast on TVThe first Olympics games (London) was
televisedWeather broadcasts were revived after
the warThe Archers' (the world's longest running
soap opera) trial beganAn experiment to televise
live debate from the Commons
was considered successful, but
the public could not see itVision Electronic Recording
Apparatus –V.E.R.A., has been
billed as the first video tape recorderQueen Elizabeth's coronation was the first
to be broadcast liveThe Radiophonic Workshop was establishedBlue Peter beganThe television centre openedThe first and most successful sci-fi
show, Doctor Who, was airedThe Forsyte Saga evolutionised costume drama'Our World' - Pictures by satellite had
been received by the BBCBBC TWO - the first full colour TV
service in EuropeRadio 1 was aired for the first timeThe Open University goes on airNewsround - The first children’s
TV news bulletinThe Family - the first
‘fly-on-the-wall’ documentaryDesigned 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 offThe Wedding of Prince Charles and Lady
Diana - The wedding had an estimated
global TV audience of 750 millionThe BBC Microcomputer was launchedBreakfast Time – the UK’s breakfast
TV service was first broadcastEastEnders - the BBC's most watched
programme ever was first airedLive 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 EuropeThe BBC News 24 Channel was the second
24 hour news service in Britain - the first for
the BBCbbc.co.uk was launchedThe first BBC digital TV channel - this
then later became BBC ThreeCome 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 2004The first BBC sci-fi show, Doctor Who, was
relaunched into a modern era of sci-fiBBC iPlayer - streaming technology had developed
sufficiently to offer whole TV programmes onlineBBC Pacific Quay – the first all-digital BBC centre
was openedBBC Arabic and BBC Persian Television were createdRed Button - Video on demand, the ability to answer quiz
questions, and background programme information are
just some of the features now on offerSuper Hi-Vision (SHV) pictures were first broadcast
from London to Tokyo from BBC studiosThe 125th anniversary of the Wimbledon Tennis
Championships was marked with the UK’s first live
3D coverage of the men's and ladies' singles finalsLondon 2012 Olympics - The BBC delivered its
most successful online event ever, which attracted
a record-breaking 55m global browsers to BBC Sport
onlineAvailable across multiple platforms, BBC iPlayer Radio
was launchedBBC Connected Red Button is a new service from the BBC that seamlessly
brings TV, radio and online together
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