A History of British Broadcasting

With the BBC Charter renewal in the news, Taylor Downing recommends studies of the institution’s past, present and future.

Singer Tom Jones rides a crane at BBC Television Centre, 1971.

'From scarcity to abundance' is the phrase usually used to describe the explosion in the number of channels and broadcasting bandwidth over the last 60 years, from one television channel in Britain in 1950 to about 400 channels today. However the same could apply to the explosion in writing about broadcasting history.

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