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The Broadcasting Corporation of America was a former subsidiary of AT&T.
When AT&T employees, notably Lee DeForest, developed advances in vacuum tube technologies in the 1910s, the telephone giant entered the radio business. BCA was the subsidiary formed to perform the actual broadcasting. For much of its existence, it was involved in patent disputes with RCA (then the Radio Corporation of America). AT&T decided to end this in 1926 by entering into an agreement which, among other things, transferred the assets of BCA to RCA, a development which helped advance the National Broadcasting Company to the premier place in U.S. broadcasting that it was to hold for many years.
The BroadcastingCorporation of America was a former subsidiary of ATandT.
BCA was the subsidiary formed to perform the actual broadcasting.
ATandT decided to end this in 1926 by entering into an agreement which, among other things, transferred the assets of BCA to RCA, a development which helped advance the National Broadcasting Company to the premier place in U.S. broadcasting that it was to hold for many years.
Live television broadcasts of selected parliamentary sessions started in ?1995, and ABC NewsRadio, a continuous news network when parliament is not sitting, was launched on October 5, 1996.
This is in contrast with the Canadian BroadcastingCorporation (CBC) and public broadcasting in New Zealand, which receive substantial revenue from advertising, and the British BroadcastingCorporation (BBC), which receives the bulk of its revenue from licence fees and worldwide commercial operations.
Relations between public broadcasters and the governments that provide all or much of their funding, and establish and maintain their legal status, have typically been through periods of turbulence since the rise of current affairs and documentaries in broadcasting.
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