Television
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Updated: 29 Sep 2017
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John Logie Baird began experimenting with a television service1939-46, closedown because of the second world war1952 before the signal could be recieved by 81 per cent of populationThe number of television license payers had risen to four and a half millionBBC introduced second channel with colour and higher resolution pictureColour transmissions began in 1967 but switchover to the new 625 lines of UHF from original 405 lines of VHF took twenty yerasChanel 4 went on air with a new remitIndependent televisionFreeview was set upUKTV changed to DaveBBC iPlayer was launched being a catch up and on demand serviceNetflix and LoveFilm began streaming services
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