Sir George Barnes (1904-1960) was a British broadcasting executive, who was a station Controller of both BBC Radio and later BBC Television in the 1940s and 1950s. After spells at the Royal Naval Colleges in Osborne and later Dartmouth, he attended King's College, Cambridge, from 1922 to 1927, before he returned to Dartmouth to be a Master at the school there. Year 1904 (MCMIV) was a leap year starting on a Friday (see link for calendar). ... 1960 (MCMLX) was a leap year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1960 calendar). ... Wikibooks has more about this subject: Marketing Note: broadcasting is also a term for hand sowing. ... BBC Radio is a service of the British Broadcasting Corporation which has operated in the United Kingdom under the terms of a Royal Charter since 1927. ... BBC Television is a service of the British Broadcasting Corporation which began in 1932. ... Full name The King’s College of Our Lady and St Nicholas in Cambridge Motto Veritas Et Utilitas Truth and usefulness Named after Henry VI Previous names - Established 1441 Sister College(s) New College Provost Prof. ... Year 1922 (MCMXXII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar). ... 1927 (MCMXXVII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ...

However, this proved not to be a permanent career for Barnes, and after a short spell at the Cambridge University Press he joined the BBC in 1935 as a Producer in the Talks Department. He produced talks with several high-profile figures, including in 1937 producing what is now the only record of author Virginia Woolf’s voice in the ‘Craftsmanship’ edition of Words Fail Me series, broadcast on April 29, 1937. The same year he produced four talks by William Butler Yeats. The headquarters of the Cambridge University Press, in Trumpington Street, Cambridge. ... The British Broadcasting Corporation, usually known as the BBC (and also informally known as the Beeb or Auntie) is the largest broadcasting corporation in the world in terms of audience numbers, employing 26,000 staff in the United Kingdom alone and with a budget of more than GB£4 billion... 1935 (MCMXXXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Year 1937 (MCMXXXVII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... Virginia Woolf (née Stephen) (January 25, 1882 – March 28, 1941) was an English novelist and essayist who is regarded as one of the foremost modernist literary figures of the twentieth century. ... April 29 is the 119th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (120th in leap years). ... Year 1937 (MCMXXXVII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... W.B. Yeats in Dublin on 24 January 1908. ...

In 1946 he was promoted to be the first ever Controller of the new BBC Radio station, the Third Programme, which still exists today in the form of BBC Radio 3, as it was renamed in 1967. He held this position for four years before in October 1950 becoming the Director of BBC Television. His appointment caused the resignation of the Controller of Programmes, Norman Collins, who disagreed with a man whose background was in sound broadcasting being appointed as his superior in the television service. 1946 (MCMXLVI) was a common year starting on Tuesday. ... The BBC Third Programme was the third national radio network broadcast by the BBC, has since become Radio 3, but was originally known (at least within the BBC) as C. The other two were the Home Service (mainly speech based) and the Light Programme, dedicated to light music, usually cover... BBC Radio 3 is a domestic UK BBC radio station, which devotes most of its schedule to classical music. ... 1967 (MCMLXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar (the link is to a full 1967 calendar). ... 1950 (MCML) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... BBC Television is a service of the British Broadcasting Corporation which began in 1932. ... Norman Collins was a British radio and television executive, and one of the major figures behind the establishment of the Independent Television (ITV) network in the UK, which was the first organisation to break the BBC’s broadcasting monopoly when it began transmitting in 1955. ...

It was under his tenure as Director that interest in television exploded, particularly with the screening of the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in 1953. Drawing an audience of an estimated 20 million British and 300 million worldwide viewers — an unprecedented viewership — the Coronation broadcast, when viewed later by the Queen, caused her to knight Barnes on the spot at the BBC's Lime Grove Studios. Television coverage was now nationwide, although in 1955 the service was faced with the prospect of competition for the first time when the rival ITV network was launched. The coronation of Empress Farah, of Iran in 1967. ... Elizabeth II (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Windsor; born 21 April 1926) is Queen of sixteen sovereign states, holding each crown and title equally. ... 1953 (MCMLIII) was a common year starting on Thursday. ... Lime Grove Studios was a film studio complex built by the Gaumont Film Company in 1915 situated in a street named Lime Grove, near Hammersmith, west London and described by Gaumont as the finest studio in Great Britain and the first building ever put up in this country solely for... 1955 (MCMLV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... It has been suggested that Channel 3 (UK) be merged into this article or section. ...

Barnes retired from broadcasting in 1956, becoming the Vice Chancellor of the University College of North Staffordshire, which was later to become known as Keele University. He died in 1960, at the age of just fifty-six, leaving a wife, Anne, and their son Anthony. Year 1956 (MCMLVI) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Keele University is a research-intensive campus university located near Newcastle-under-Lyme in Staffordshire, England. ... 1960 (MCMLX) was a leap year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1960 calendar). ...