5ITwas aBritish Broadcasting Company(laterBBC)radio stationwhich broadcast fromBirmingham,England,between 1922 and 1927.
Birmingham was the first British city outsideLondonto have a radio service from the newly formed British Broadcasting Company, with 5IT starting regular broadcasting from itsWittonbase at 17:00 on 15 November 1922,[1]: 207 one day after2LOstarted daily BBC broadcasting from London[1]: 157 and one hour before the 18:00 launch ofManchester's2ZY.[1]: 161 5IT pioneered many innovations in early broadcasting, launchingChildren's Hourin 1922,[2]developing sophisticated methods of programme control and employing the first full-time announcers in 1923.[3]The station's first announcer on its opening night was its general managerPercy Edgar,[3]who was to be the dominant figure in Birmingham broadcasting and the BBC's most influential regional director until his retirement in 1948.[4]: 311
5IT moved its studios from Witton to a former cinema inNew Streetin 1923, moving again in 1926 to a completely new building inBroad Streetwith two studios – one of the largest the country,[5]if not Europe. The Broad Street studios now controlled and made programmes for a region stretching across central England fromThe PotteriestoNorfolk.
From 21 August 1927 the low-powered city station 5IT was replaced by the5GB(theBBC Midland Region) – the first of the BBC's regional services[6]– broadcast from the new high poweredDaventry transmitting stationatBorough HillnearDaventry.[4]: 282
References
edit- ^abcHennessy & Hennessy 2005
- ^Crisell, Andrew (2002),An Introductory History of British Broadcasting,Routledge, p. 20,ISBN0-415-24792-6,retrieved31 December2009
- ^abBriggs 1961,p. 190
- ^abBriggs 1965
- ^Hudson, Kenneth (1981),The archaeology of the consumer society: the second industrial revolution in Britain(illustrated ed.), London: Heinemann (published 1983), p. 100,ISBN0-435-32959-6,retrieved1 January2010
- ^Briggs 1978,p. 80
Bibliography
edit- Briggs, Asa(1961),The Birth of Broadcasting,The History of Broadcasting in the United Kingdom, vol. I, London: Oxford University Press (published 1995),ISBN0-19-212926-0,retrieved31 December2009
- Briggs, Asa (1965),The Golden Age of Wireless,The History of Broadcasting in the United Kingdom, vol. II, London: Oxford University Press (published 1995),ISBN0-19-212930-9,retrieved31 December2009
- Briggs, Asa (1978),Sound and Vision,The History of Broadcasting in the United Kingdom, vol. IV, London: Oxford University Press (published 1995),ISBN0-19-212967-8,retrieved1 January2010
- Hennessy, Brian; Hennessy, John (2005),The emergence of broadcasting in Britain,Lympstone: Southerleigh,ISBN0-9551408-0-3,retrieved31 December2009
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