I apologise if this is classed as spam, but I thought I'd point out that BBC TV, now known as BBC One, 70 years old!
77 years of transmitting pictures, 49 years of globes, 6 months of HD, 21 years of Eastenders, 21 years of Childens, and 70 years of pure entertainment, I'm sure you'll agree. Of course the channel never got it's name until 42 years after, though it's been a real life-changing point of everyone's lives. Perhaps if it wern't for BBC One, we'd have no TV at all!
I don't suppose BBC One will celebrate this at all, do you think? Or would they save it 'til the 75?
The first transmissions were broadcast on September 30 1929. Sound and picture could be broadcast simultaniously on March 30th 1930 by using BBC's Brookmans Park transmitter. From late 1930, morning and evening programmes were shown lasting half an hour each.
The BBC began its own regular television programming from the basement of Broadcasting House, London on August 22, 1932. The studio moved to expanded quarters at 16 Portland Place, London, in February 1934, and continued broadcasting the 30-line images, carried by telephone line to the medium wave transmitter at Brookmans Park, until September 11, 1935, by which time advances in all-electronic television systems made the electromechanical broadcasts obsolete.
After a series of test transmissions and special broadcasts that began in August, regular BBC television broadcasts officially resumed on November 2, 1936, from a converted wing of Alexandra Palace in London, housing two studios, various scenery stores, make-up areas, dressing rooms, offices, and even the transmitter itself, now broadcasting on the VHF band. BBC television initially used two systems, on alternate weeks: the 240-line Baird system and the 405-line Marconi-EMI system, each making the BBC the world's first regular high-definition television service. The two systems were to run on a trial basis for six months. However, the Baird system, which used a mechanical camera for filmed programming and Farnsworth image dissector cameras for live programming, proved too cumbersome and visually inferior, and was dropped in February 1937.
Courtesy of Wikipedia and my skills of typing things which make it look like I never copied and pasted them... well the first bit anyway.
When people complain that there are too many repeats these days it's worth pointing out that the second programme transmitted was a repeat* of the first.
* well, not strictly speaking as it was live so it was performed for a second time.
No, BBC One is not 70 today...BBC Television is. There was no such thing as BBC One in 1936 for the simple reason that there was no BBC Two to make the differentiation necessary. And when BBCtv celebrated it's 50th anniversary in 1986, most of the programmes were shown on BBC Two.
No, BBC One is not 70 today...BBC Television is. There was no such thing as BBC One in 1936 for the simple reason that there was no BBC Two to make the differentiation necessary. And when BBCtv celebrated it's 50th anniversary in 1986, most of the programmes were shown on BBC Two.
The first transmissions were broadcast on September 30 1929. Sound and picture could be broadcast simultaniously on March 30th 1930 by using BBC's Brookmans Park transmitter.
Although one of the first TV transmissions by Baird and the BBC was done in secret. The BBC didn't want to get involved with TV so Baird got a friend of his from the BBC to transmit some of his TV pictures after closedown from Brookmans Park. The signals were carried from his workshop in South London via a phone line!
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