Articles by BBC Yearbook

How television works

Published 8 September 2023

This new ‘television’ idea is getting popular, but how does it work?

The Coronation broadcasts

Published 6 May 2023

The BBC looks back at the Coronation earlier in 1937

Ten Years of Technical Progress

Published 6 May 2022

Looking back at the first ten years of technical developments at the BBC

Radio on the move

Published 22 November 2021

It’s all change for BBC radio as the national networks move frequencies as part of a Europe-wide reorganisation

BBC Local Radio

Published 8 November 2021

The BBC’s local radio services in 1980

A year of decisions

Published 6 August 2021

The BBC looks back at a momentous year for technology and broadcasting

American broadcasting

Published 9 July 2021

The BBC takes a rather sniffy view of developments in radio in the United States

Goodbye to Savoy Hill

Published 19 March 2021

As the BBC gets ready to move from Savoy Hill to Broadcasting House in 1932, the staff look back at the old headquarters

Progress in television

Published 25 September 2020

The BBC brings us up to speed on recent developments in television in 1961

BBC-2 transmitting stations

Published 27 March 2018

BBC-2 transmitters in service and planned in 1968

Years of Light

Published 26 September 2017

The BBC reviews the first two years of the Light Programme

Audience Research

Published 25 September 2017

A look at what’s popular and how popularity is measured from the BBC in 1961

The beginning of a new service

Published 4 September 2017

Pay a visit to the newly opened Brookmans Park transmitter in 1931 as the BBC’s “Regional Scheme” begins

The Coronation Broadcasts

Published 12 May 2017

The BBC’s coverage of the coronation of King George VI in 1937

The old BBC: the press, the Crawford Committee and the end

Published 10 February 2017

Part seven of our series remembering the British Broadcasting Company

The old BBC: entering the last year

Published 3 February 2017

Part six of our series remembering the British Broadcasting Company

The old BBC: material changes and programme developments

Published 27 January 2017

Part five of our series remembering the British Broadcasting Company

The old BBC: early progress and expansion

Published 20 January 2017

Part four of our series remembering the British Broadcasting Company

Direct broadcasting by satellite

Published 16 January 2017

The BBC in 1986 details what went wrong with the planned BBC/IBA satellite service

The old BBC: early difficulties and the Sykes Committee

Published 13 January 2017

Part three of our series remembering the British Broadcasting Company

The old BBC: the beginning

Published 6 January 2017

Part two of our series remembering the British Broadcasting Company

The old BBC: Remembering the British Broadcasting Company

Published 1 January 2017

The first part of our special series remembering the British Broadcasting Company, 90 years after it became today’s BBC

Under construction

Published 17 November 2016

The BBC Handbook for 1961 celebrates the opening of the first studio at Television Centre

TV80: Television To-day

Published 2 November 2016

The BBC Handbook for 1938 looks back at the first year of television

Northern exposure

Published 24 October 2016

A new BBC transmitter is being built near Slaithwaite in 1931

New Broadcasting House

Published 20 October 2016

Construction is well underway of the BBC’s new Broadcasting House in 1931

Television returns in 1946

Published 3 October 2016

The BBC Yearbook for 1947 tells us how television returned in June 1946

Heard around the world

Published 18 August 2016

The BBC Year-book of 1931 explains how a King’s speech was heard around the world

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