The British Broadcasting Company Ltd was a British commercial company formed on October 18, 1922 by British and American electrical companies doing business in the United Kingdom. Its original office was located on the fifth floor of the General Electric building in London. On December 14, 1922, John Reith was hired to become the Managing Director of the company. On December 31, 1926, the company was dissolved and its assets were transferred to the Crown Chartered British Broadcasting Corporation. Corporate logo of the British Broadcasting Corporation. ... The subject of the BBC as the broadcasting service of the United Kingdom, is associated to many inter-related articles on Wikipedia. ... October 18 is the 291st day of the year (292nd in Leap years). ... 1922 (MCMXXII) was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... The General Electric Company, or GE (NYSE: GE) is a multinational technology and services company. ... The Houses of Parliament and the clock tower containing Big Ben Part of the London skyline viewed from the South Bank London is the capital city of England and the United Kingdom. ... December 14 is the 348th day of the year (349th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1922 (MCMXXII) was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... John Charles Walsham Reith, 1st Baron Reith (July 20, 1889 - June 16, 1971), later Sir John Reith (1927-), then Baron Reith (1940-) established the British tradition of independent public service broadcasting. ... December 31 is the 365th day of the year (366th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1926 (MCMXXVI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... Corporate logo of the British Broadcasting Corporation. ...

Brief history

Post Office stations

In Britain prior to 1922, the General Post Office retained exclusive rights given to it by government, to manage and control all means of mass communication with the exception of the printed word for which authority had devolved to another governmental entity. The foundation of the British system still revolves around a specific interpretation of the word station, which means a location. As such all Post Offices are located at stations, which is also true of railway stations and police stations and even battle stations. The laws which evolved into the Wireless Telegraphy Act of 1947 upon which all modern British communication laws are built in one way or another, concerns four essential parts: the establishment of a station (or location) for purposes of broadcasting; the use of a station (location) for purposes of broadcasting; the installing of a transmitter at a station (location), and the use of a transmitter at a station (location). All four of these activities require a government license which was originally granted by the General Post Office. The term General Post Office is used by a number of postal administrations worldwide. ... The Wireless Telegraphy Act is the name given to the foundation of all communication laws in the United Kingdom. ...

"Electrical" Post Offices

The invention of the electrical telegraph came under the control of the 1869 Telegraph Act which was based upon a law that forbade the encoding of electrical cables with messages without a license. The messages were viewed as electronic forms of a letter. This invention was followed by the wireless telegraph which was then placed under the 1904 Wireless Telegraph Act. The invention of the telephone with its switchboards and routing systems was interpreted by the General Post Office as an electronic post office. When the telephone was combined with the wireless telegraph to create wireless telephony, the same reasoning was used to control this new medium which became known as wireless broadcasting. However, because wireless broadcasting messages were no longer point-to-point but scattered, there were complaints about this interpretation. Telegraphy (from the Greek words tele = far away and grapho = write) is the long distance transmission of written messages without physical transport of letters, originally over wire. ... Wireless is an old-fashioned term for a radio receiver, referring to its use as a wireless telegraph. ... The telephone or phone (Greek: tele = far away and phone = voice) is a telecommunications device which is used to transmit and receive sound (most commonly voice and speech) across distance. ... ... ...

Advent of wireless broadcasting

In the USA, the development of the telegraph, wireless telegraph, telephone and wireless telephony proceeded according to the dictates of entrepreneurial commercial interests concerned only with supply and demand for profit. This approach was not possible in the United Kingdom due to the tight legal controls of state monopoly held by the General Post Office (GPO). Therefore licenses to commence test wireless broadcasts had to be obtained from the GPO and initially, some companies in Britain were successful in obtaining a license for limited times and purposes. In economics, government monopoly is a form of coercive monopoly, in which a government agency is the sole provider of a particular good or service and competition is prohibited by law. ...

First test broadcasts

Beginning in 1920, a number of licenses were issued to British and American subsidiary companies in Britain for the purpose of conducting experimental transmissions under terms of a license issued by the General Post Office in accordance with the Wireless Telegraphy Act of 1904. On June 15, 1920, Marconi's Wireless Telegraphy Company, Limited, in Chelmsford, Essex, was licensed to conduct an experimental broadcast featuring Dame Nellie Melba. The signal was received throughout Europe and as far as Newfoundland. Further transmissions were also made. The Wireless Telegraphy Act is the name given to the foundation of all communication laws in the United Kingdom. ... June 15 is the 166th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (167th in leap years), with 199 days remaining. ... 1920 (MCMXX) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar) // Events January January 7 - Forces of Russian White admiral Kolchak surrender in Krasnoyarsk. ... Chelmsford is the county town of Essex, England. ... Essex is a county in the East of England. ... Dame Nelly Melba in role of Rosina from the Barber of Seville Dame Nellie Melba (May 19, 1861 - February 23, 1931), born Helen Porter Mitchell, was an Australian opera soprano, the first Australian to achieve international recognition in the form. ... For other uses, see Europe (disambiguation). ... Map of Newfoundland Newfoundland (French: Terre-Neuve; Irish: Talamh an Éisc; Latin: Terra Nova) is a large island off the northeast coast of North America, and the most populous part of the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador. ...

Military intervention

On November 23, 1920 the General Post Office halted all further transmissions due to complaints of alleged interference to Armed Forces military communications. As the number of wireless (radio) receiving sets increased during the early 1920s, the General Post Office came under extreme pressure from hobby listeners to allow the experimental wireless (radio) broadcasts to resume. November 23 is the 327th day of the year (328th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 38 days remaining. ... 1920 (MCMXX) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar) // Events January January 7 - Forces of Russian White admiral Kolchak surrender in Krasnoyarsk. ... The armed forces of the United Kingdom are known as the British Armed Forces or Her Majestys Armed Forces, officially the Armed Forces of the Crown. ...

Test transmissions resume

On February 14, 1922, which was two years after ceasing their original transmissions, Marconi's Wireless Telegraphy Company, Limited was issued a license for experimental transmissions under the call sign 2MT. Peter Eckersley was given charge of providing both the broadcast entertainment and the engineering. The station operated out of a hut in a field at Writtle near Chelmsford in Essex, England. February 14 is the 45th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1922 (MCMXXII) was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... Captain Peter Pendleton Eckersley (PP Eckersley) (1892-1963) was a pioneer of British broadcasting. ... The village of Writtle lies in Essex, England, just to the west of Chelmsford. ... Chelmsford is the county town of Essex, England. ... Essex is a county in the East of England. ... Royal motto (French): Dieu et mon droit (Translated: God and my right) Englands location within the British Isles Official language English de facto Capital London de facto Largest city London Area – Total Ranked 1st UK 130,395 km² Population – Total (mid-2004) – Total (2001 Census) – Density Ranked 1st UK...

On May 11, 1922, the Marconi Company was issued another license for experimental broadcasts from a station identified as 2LO which was located at Marconi House in the Strand, London. The programme consisted of a boxing commentary of the fight between Kid Lewis and Georges Carpentier. Further tests were also advertised as demonstrations of "Wireless Telegraphy and Telephony" which were "subject to permission from the Postmaster General". These demonstrations were performed by the "Demonstration Department (of) Marconi's London Wireless Station 2LO". May 11 is the 131st day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (132nd in leap years). ... The Marconi Company Ltd. ... In the United Kingdom, the Postmaster General is a now defunct ministerial position. ...

On May 16, 1922, Metropolitan Vickers Company, Ltd. ("Metrovick"), in Manchester commenced test broadcasting from its own station identified as 2ZY. May 16 is the 136th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (137th in leap years). ... Manchester is a city in the North West of England, UK. The city is named from the old Roman name Mamucium plus ceaster, derived from the old Latin Castra. Manchester is a metropolitan borough with city status. ...

Incorporation and shares

On October 18, 1922, the British Broadcasting Company, Ltd. was incorporated under the 1908 to 1917 Companies Acts with a share capital of £100,000., with 99,993 cumulative ordinary shares valued at £1 each: October 18 is the 291st day of the year (292nd in Leap years). ... 1922 (MCMXXII) was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ...

The holders of the Cumulative Ordinary Shares are entitled to receive out of the profits of the Company a fixed Cumulative Dividend at the rate of 7½% per annum on the capital for the time being paid up thereon but are not entitled to any further or other participation in profits.

Directors

• The Rt. Hon. Lord Gainford, Headlam Hall, Gainford, Durham. (Chairman);
• Geoffrey C. Isaacs, Marconi House, Strand, WC2. (Managing Director, Marconi's Wirelesss Telegraph Co. Ltd.);
• Archibald McKinstry, The Red Lodge, Southill Avenue, Harrow-on-the-Hill. (Joint Managing Director of Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Export Company, Limited.);
• Major Basil Binyon, "Hawtthorndene", Hayes, Kent. (Managing Director of Radio Communication Company Limited.);
• John Gray, "Bdeaulieu", Park Farm Road, Bromley, Kent. (Chairman of the Hotpoint Electric Appliance Company, Limited.);
• Sir William Noble, Magnet House, Kingsway, London WC2. (Director of The General Electric Company, Limited.);
• Henry Mark Pease, 18 Kensington Court Mansions, London W8. (Managing Director of Western Electric Company, Limited.)

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International origins

The British Broadcasting Company, Ltd., was formed using a blueprint that the US Navy and the General Electric Company had attempted to institute in the USA. During World War I, all of the ship-to-shore stations controlled by a US subsidiary company of Marconi's Wireless Telegraph Company, Limited in Chelmsford, England, were seized and handed to the US Navy for the duration of the War. After the War, the US Congress forced the US Navy to divest itself of the stations and they turned to the General Electric Company which in 1919 formed a subsidiary called the Radio Corporation of America. With the US Navy on its board, RCA then absorbed the former Marconi stations. The United States Navy (USN) is the branch of the United States armed forces responsible for naval operations. ... The General Electric Company, or GE, (NYSE: GE) is a multinational technology and services company. ... World War I, also known as the First World War, and (before 1939) the Great War, the War of the Nations, and the War to End All Wars, was a world conflict lasting from August 1914 to the final Armistice (cessation of hostilities) on November 11, 1918. ... The Congress of the United States is the legislative branch of the federal government of the United States of America. ... RCA, formerly an initialism for the Radio Corporation of America, is now a trademark used by two companies for products descended from that common ancestor: Thomson Consumer Electronics, which manufactures RCA-branded televisions, DVD players, video cassette recorders, direct broadcast satellite decoders, camcorders, audio equipment, telephones, and related accessories; and... For other uses, see RCA (disambiguation). ...

In 1926 RCA created the National Broadcasting Company. Peaking in the 1930s, there were attempts to bring all radio communications in America back under single monopoly control by using the patent laws. This move failed. However, it was against the backdrop of these developments between 1922 to 1927 in which the original British Broadcasting Company. Ltd. was formed and then merged into a Crown corporation, in part to sever the influence of the General Electric Company in the USA. The National Broadcasting Company or NBC is an American television broadcasting company based in New York Citys Rockefeller Center. ...

The General Electric Company, Ltd. (GEC) in Britain, which was represented on the board of the BBC, had ties to General Electric International, which was a subsidiary of the General Electric Company in the USA. The Western Electric Company. Ltd., in the UK was originally formed as a subsidiary of American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T) in the USA where it served as its manufacturing subsidiary to equip the AT&T Bell Telephone system. Metropolitan Vickers Company, Ltd., was originally formed as the British Westinghouse Company. Westinghouse and AT&T were both represented in RCA. British Thomson Houston Company, Ltd., was a controlled UK subsidiary of the General Electric Company in the USA. Hotpoint Electric Appliance Company, Ltd., was another company that began life as a subsidiary of the General Electric Company in the USA. The General Electric Company plc or GEC was a major UK company involved in consumer and defence electronics, communications and engineering. ... The General Electric Company, or GE, (NYSE: GE) is a multinational technology and services company. ... Western Electric (sometimes abbreviated WE and WECo) was a US electrical engineering company, the manufacturing arm of AT&T from 1881 to 1995 . ... AT&T (formerly an abbreviation for American Telephone and Telegraph) Corporation (NYSE: T) is an American telecommunications company. ... AT&T Inc. ... AT&T Corporate Logo, 1969-1983 The Bell System is an informal name given to the US telecommunications company American Telephone & Telegraph Company (AT&T) before AT&T divested its local exchange telephone service operating companies on January 1, 1984. ... British Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company was a subsidiary of the American Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company. ... For other uses, see RCA (disambiguation). ... The General Electric Company, or GE, (NYSE: GE) is a multinational technology and services company. ...

The only other company later added to the original shareholders of the British Broadcasting Company, Ltd., was Burndept Limited. It represented the interests of over 20 small electrical manufacturers in the UK.

1922-1926 BBC Timeline

1922

• October 18: British Broadcasting Company, Ltd. formed but not registered.
• November 1: First broadcast receiving license introduced.

• November 14: 2LO began broadcasting on mediumwave, from Marconi House to London with the first newscast read by Arthur Burrows, first Director of Programmes.
• November 15:5IT in Birmingham and 2ZY in Manchester began broadcasting. All three BBC stations broadcast General Election results.

• December 14: John C. W. Reith hired as the Company's Managing Director.

• December 15: British Broadcasting Company, Ltd., registered as an incorporated company.
• December 30: John Reith began his first day of work as Managing Director.
• December 31: 35,774 receiving licenses issued by General Post Office. BBC staff numbered 4 employees.

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1923

• January 18: Postmaster General Neville Chamberlain issued a broadcasting license to the British Broadcasting Company, Ltd., from the General Post Office.
• February 13: 5WA began broadcasting to Cardiff, Wales.
• March 6: 5SC began broadcasting to Glasgow, Scotland.
• May 1: Studios opened at Savoy Hill.
• August 29: First network news delivered by all BBC stations.
• September 28: First published edition of Radio Times.
• October 1: Publication of Sykes Committee Report on Broadcasting.

• October 10: 2BD began broadcasting to Aberdeen, Scotland.
• October 17: 6BM began broadcasting to Bournemouth.

• November 16: 6FL began broadcasting to Sheffield as the first relay station.

• November 26: First experimental broadcast to North America.

• December 30: First landline relay from Radiola Paris, France.

• December 31: First broadcast of Big Ben chimes. BBC staff numbered 177 employees.

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1924

• February 5: First daily broadcast of the Greenwich time signal.

• February 17: First daily broadcast of the Big Ben time signal.

• March 28 5PY began broadcasting to Plymouth as a relay station.
• May 1: 2EH began broadcasting to Edinburgh, Scotland as a relay station.
• June 11: 6LV began broadcasting to Liverpool as a relay station.
• July 8: 2LS began broadcasting to Leeds and Bradford as a relay station.

• July 9: 5XX began experimental broadcasts on AM longwave from Chelmsford, Essex.

• August 15: 6KH began broadcasting to Hull as a relay station.
• September 15: 2BE began broadcasting to Belfast, Northern Ireland.

• September 16: 5NG began broadcasting to Nottingham.

• October 21: 6ST began broadcasting to Stoke-on-Trent as a relay station.
• November 12: 2DE began broadcasting to Dundee as a relay station.

• November 26: First transatlantic relay broadcast from KDKA, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.

• December 12: 5SX began broadcasting to Swansea as a relay station.

• December 31: Over 1 million receiving licenses have been issued by the General Post Office. The BBC now has 20 radio transmitting stations in operation and 465 employees.

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1925

• April 3: BBC Deputy Managing Director Rear-Admiral Charles Carpendale becomes President of the First General Assembly of the International Broadcasting Union at Geneva, Switzerland.

• April 6: 2LO transmitter power increased during move from Marconi House to the roof of Selfridges department store in Oxford Street.

• July 17: First edition published of The Radio Supplement.

• July 27: 5XX experimental AM longwave station moved from Chelmsford to Daventry where it commenced regular broadcasting on 1600 metres.

• December 31: BBC staff now numbers 658 employees.

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1926

• January 4: John Reith begins to impose his dress code on BBC radio announcers who have to wear evening dress to match BBC performing artists in evening dress.
• March 5: Parliamentary Crawford Committee publishes its broadcasting report which calls for the termination of the British Broadcasting Company, Ltd., and the creation of a Crown chartered, non-commercial British Broadcasting Corporation beginning in 1927.
• June 18: BBC The Radio Supplement is replaced by BBC World Radio publication.
• November 14: The International Broadcasting Union issues its Geneva Plan which reduces the number of BBC wavelengths. This forces the company to restructure by replacing its local radio stations with regional radio stations.
• December 16: Over 100 staff and directors of the British Broadcasting Company, Ltd., attend a dinner party for Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin.

• December 20: Publication of the Crown charter and license agreements creating the British Broadcasting Corporation.
• December 31: The General Post Offices has issued 2¼ million receiving licenses. The contracts of 773 British Broadcasting Company Ltd staff are terminated and, with the dissolution of the company, shareholders are paid at par value.

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See also

• BBC Radio - a specific article about BBC domestic radio broadcasting services.
• BBC Television - a specific article about BBC domestic television services.
• BBC World Service - a specific article about BBC external radio and television broadcasting services.

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References

• Mass Media Moments in the United Kingdom, the USSR and the USA, by Gilder PhD., Eric. - "Lucian Blaga" University of Sibiu Press, Romania. 2003. ISBN 973-651-596-6 This book contains historical background relating to the British Broadcasting Company, Ltd., its founding companies; their transatlantic connections; General Post Office licensing system; commercial competitors from Europe prior to World War II and offshore during the 1960s.
• The BBC - The First Fifty Years, by Briggs, Asa. Oxford University Press, Oxford. 1985. ISBN 0-19-212971-6 The first two lengthy chapters of this book cover in detail the BBC version of their history prior to the creation of the British Broadcasting Corporation in 1927.
• Radio: The Great Years, by Parker, Derek. - David & Charles, Newton Abbot. 1977. ISBN 0-7153-7430-3 Contains a full page readable reproduction of the first edition of the Radio Times, September 28, 1923. The lead article is by Arthur R. Burrows, Director of Programmes for the British Broadcasting Company, Ltd. His headline asks: "What's in the air?" Its stations are listed as serving "London, Cardiff, Birmingham, Newcastle, Manchester, Glasgow." An article by Peter Eckersley promises to inform readers about "Simultaneous Broadcasting."
• The First Fifty Years - (BBC Handbook 1973), by Curran, Charles. - British Broadcasting Corporation, London. 1972.
• British Broadcasting, A Study in Monopoly, by Coase, R. H. - Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA. 1950.
• The Power Behind the Microphone, by Eckersley, Peter P. - Jonathan Cape, London. 1941. Peter Eckersley was hired as Chief Engineer by the British Broadcasting Company, Ltd.
• Broadcast Over Britain, by Reith, John. - London. 1924. John Reith was the Managing Director of the British Broadcasting Company, Ltd. He was a Scottish Calvinist who insisted that his own personal views of the world were those adopted by the staff of the company. He stated in his book which was written just after he got the job that it was his job to tell listeners what they needed to hear.

External links

• History of Writtle where Captain Peter Eckersley conducted the first licensed British broadcasts. This site contains pictures of Peter Eckersly and the now famous shed from which he conducted his first broadcasts on behalf of Marconi's Wireless Telegraphy Company, Limited.