What is BBC?

The British Broadcasting Company started daily transmissions on November 14th 1922, by which time more than one million ten-shilling (50p) company started daily transmissions on November 14th, 1922, by which time more than one million ten-shilling (50p) licenses had been issued. In 1927 the company was restructured as a public corporation -the BBC that we know today- by its founding father, John (later Lord) Reith, but by this time an even newer technology was being developed -television. In 1923 the Scotsman John Logie Baird began developing a system by which television would be made possible. Baird wasn’t the only one developing this new system at that time; indeed, Earl Ferdinand Braun had invented the first commercial cathode ray tube as early as 1897. By now the corporation was taking great strides in television development. Not only were there improvements in picture quality with the introduction of EMI’s Super Emitron, but also there were bolder drama productions and more confident program making. Clive of India broke new ground when W. P. Lipscomb used camera controls that enabled him to use slow, medium and fast panning shots. There were 23,000 licenses and the television industry now had its own slogan. “You can’t shut your eyes to it.” Predictions were made (not unrealistically) that by Christmas there could be as many as 80,000 receivers in use. Then on 1st September 1939, the screens went blank. Viewers waited for an announcement but none came. Britain and the BBC were about to go to war, and the first television era had come to an end.

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