Hurrah for Auntie Beeb. What a TV service it is. the world’s largest broadcaster and the only TV service which broadcasts world-wide. In the UK, there are no adverts as the BBC is funded by television licence fees and other means.
BBC programming is the best in the world, as is the BBC Natural History Unit. Comedies and dramas produced by the BBC are appreciated the world over.
The photo shows the home of BBC TV, but the head office is still in its original location at Broadcasting House. Both buildings are icons of the London landscape.
Even commercial TV is not as bas as other countries. They are only allowed seven or eight minutes of advertising per hour. In other countries, it is the ads which stick in one’s mind more than the miniscule program slots in-between.
Germany was first with high quality 625 line transmissions, but British TV quickly took up the cause. Colour didn’t come until 1967, but British TV programs didn’t need colour to make them good. When Coronation Street was first broadcast in colour, there were complaints from many fans that colour took away from the dirt and grime in which the soap was set
So there you have it. British TV in a nutshell. The best of everything, and it still is
