Origins

Tim Madge

Chapter 2 in Beyond the BBC, 1989, pp 20-34 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Engineers invented British broadcasting, not programme planners and makers. These men of wit and vision stamped one word firmly into the history of broadcasting in the UK, a word that has remained engraved especially in the heart of the BBC: quality. P. P. Eckersley, that much under-rated founder member of the BBC, says in The Power Behind the Microphone that ‘“publicists” often say the creation of the BBC was a “far-sighted measure of sociological planning”. In fact it was nothing of the sort; the BBC was formed as the expedient solution of a technical problem … scarcity of wavelengths’.

Keywords: Television Service; Committee Report; Commercial Television; Public Service Broadcasting; Video Cassette Recorder (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1989
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-20163-1_3

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