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Originally Posted by griffonwing
So, for those of you in the UK. I will assume there is BBC-1, BBC-2, BBC-3 and.. BBC-4?
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In the beginning there was the British Broadcasting Company. And the Government decided that it would be much better as the British Broadcasting Corporation. Its mission was to "inform, educate and entertain".
Slowly the amount of broadcasting increased. By 1947, the BBC had one television channel and three domestic radio channels - Home, Light and Third. (There was also a foreign radio service - the Empire Sevice, later the World Service.)
This remained the state of broadcasting for about 20 years. Then a second television channel was added in 1964, and we got BBC1 and BBC2. In 1967, a fourth radio channel is launched, and the radio stations are renamed. The new one is called Radio 1, The Light, Third and Home services become Radio 2, Radio 3 and Radio 4.
Regional BBC Radio stations start up.
And this remains the BBC's line up for the next 25 years or so, until Radio 5, a live news and sport radio channel starts in 1990.
And then over the past ten years there's been the digital TV and radio launches. Domestically, Radio 6 & Radio 7, and TV's BBC3, BBC4 and BBC News 24.
And a global TV service too...
And then we come to independant television. This started in the mid fifties, giving us a TV line-up of BBC and ITV, joined by BBC2 in the mid sixties.
Channel 4 TV started in the early eighties.
And now there are far too many channels, but no greater volume of good programmes....