The document discusses the history of British broadcasting through radio and television. It provides information on how radio was initially used for military and ship communication before the BBC became a main broadcaster. It also mentions illegal pirate radio stations that played pop music from ships at sea before Radio 1. The document then matches different radio stations to their content types and shares television ownership statistics throughout the decades, including the start dates of ITV, color television, and Channel 4.

1. British broadcasting history
Radio
Radio was first used by armies and by ships for communicating from one
point to another. For a long time the main radio stations listened to were broadcast
from the BBC. Before Radio 1 started in 1967, many young people listened to illegal
‘pirate’ radio stations, such as Radio Caroline, which broadcast pop music from ships
at sea.
Match the radio to its content:
Radio 1 Sport and talk
Radio 2 Classical music
Radio 3 Light music
Radio 4 Current affairs
Radio 5 Pop music
Television is the most successful medium of all, with over 99% of homes
having a TV set. On average people in Britain watch 25 hours of TV a week.
Can you work out what happened when?
1936 ITV starts
Colour television
1938
1953 First BBC broadcast
1955 5,000 TV sets owned
The Queens Coronation big growth in
1967
ownership of TV sets
1981 Channel 4 starts