{"id":3362,"date":"2025-05-04T14:13:37","date_gmt":"2025-05-04T14:13:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/75-years-of-bbc-tv-history-of-the-bbc\/"},"modified":"2025-05-04T14:13:37","modified_gmt":"2025-05-04T14:13:37","slug":"75-years-of-bbc-tv-history-of-the-bbc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/75-years-of-bbc-tv-history-of-the-bbc\/","title":{"rendered":"75 Years of BBC TV &#8211; History of the BBC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YOQCA0r1PZk?autoplay=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>Subscribe and \ud83d\udd14 to the BBC \ud83d\udc49 https:\/\/bit.ly\/BBCYouTubeSub<br \/>\nWatch the BBC first on iPlayer \ud83d\udc49 https:\/\/bbc.in\/iPlayer-Home http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/historyofthebbc At 3pm on 2 November 1936 the BBC began the world&#8217;s first regular hi-definition television service, from specially constructed studios at Alexandra Palace in North London. As part of this, two different technical systems were being tested on alternate weeks for six months: John Logie Baird&#8217;s mechanical system producing pictures of 240 lines, and the EMI-Marconi electronic system, which produced images of 405 lines. On the toss of a coin, Baird&#8217;s system inaugurated the service, followed by EMI-Marconi&#8217;s. The latter was to prove the winning system.<\/p>\n<p>The formal opening ceremony was followed by a Movietone newsreel and then a variety show, featuring Adele Dixon and the BBC Television Orchestra. A short documentary, Television Comes to London, revealed the preparations leading up to the launch. In all, the service was on the air for two hours on its first day.<\/p>\n<p>Watch a selection of clips from programmes which all came from Alexandra Palace, when the BBC was there, 1936-1981.<\/p>\n<p>#bbc<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=YOQCA0r1PZk\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Subscribe and \ud83d\udd14 to the BBC \ud83d\udc49 https:\/\/bit.ly\/BBCYouTubeSub Watch the BBC first on iPlayer \ud83d\udc49 https:\/\/bbc.in\/iPlayer-Home http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/historyofthebbc At 3pm on 2 November 1936 the BBC began the world&#8217;s first regular hi-definition television service, from specially constructed studios at Alexandra Palace in North London. As part of this, two different technical systems were being tested on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":3363,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[6694,6692,6697,6698,6699,6719,15,55,169,1264,6717,6707,6716,6704,6703,6706,6718,193,6691,6709,6701,6715,6708,6702,6712,6700,6720,6714,6713,6710,6705,6695,6696,5682,3057,6711,6693],"class_list":["post-3362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-history","tag-6694","tag-6692","tag-alexandra-palace","tag-ali-pali","tag-ap","tag-ask-zena-skinner","tag-bbc","tag-bbc-2","tag-bbc-news","tag-bbc-two","tag-colour-testing","tag-coronation","tag-eileen-fowler","tag-electronic","tag-emi-marconi","tag-george-robey","tag-gerald-priestland","tag-history","tag-history-of-the-bbc","tag-jasmine-bligh","tag-john-logie-baird","tag-keep-fit","tag-king-george-vi","tag-mechanical","tag-muffin-the-mule","tag-north-london","tag-open-university","tag-personally-speaking","tag-peter-ustinov","tag-petula-clark","tag-picture-page","tag-service","tag-studios","tag-system","tag-television","tag-television-is-here-again","tag-years","post_format-post-format-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3362\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/reel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}