The British Broadcasting Company (BBC) began its radio service in the United Kingdom.
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The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) resumed TV broadcasting for the first time since the end of WWII.
The Greenwich Time Signal is broadcast for the first time.
For the first time in history, the BBC (British Broadcasting Company) transmitted a two-hour-long live broadcast from Calais, France, to television screens in the UK.
The natural history series 'Life on Earth,' presented by David Attenborough, aired on BBC One in the UK for the first time.
The BBC broadcast the world's first science fiction television program, an adaptation of the play R.U.R.