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Later Director-General Greg Dyke, profiling Reith in 2007, noted that the term Reithian has entered the dictionary to denote a style of management, particularly with relation to broadcasting. [13] Reith summarised the BBC's purpose in three words: inform, educate, entertain; this remains part of the organisation's mission statement to this day ...
The Reith Lectures is a series of annual BBC radio lectures given by leading figures of the day. They are commissioned by the BBC and broadcast on Radio 4 and the World Service . The lectures were inaugurated in 1948 to mark the historic contribution made to public service broadcasting by Lord Reith , the corporation's first director-general.
The BBC's radio studio in Birmingham, from the BBC Hand Book 1928, which described it as "Europe's largest studio" John Reith and the BBC, with support from the Crown, determined the universal needs of the people of Britain and broadcast content according to these perceived standards. [36]
The first director-general of the BBC, Lord Reith, encouraged the use of a 'BBC accent' because it was a "style or quality of English which would not be laughed at in any part of the country". He distinguished the BBC accent from the 'Oxford accent', to which he was "vehemently opposed". [51]
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The BBC World News box logo is shown throughout the countdown, similar to BBC News. In 2014, the countdown has been redesigned again, with the BBC World News box logo showing its slogan, "Live the Story," at the bottom left of the screen. In 2019, alongside the BBC News channel, World News received a Reith Refresh.
BBC Four is the first channel to use the new corporate font of the BBC, which is the BBC Reith. [18] The DOG for the channel remained the same in the 4:3 screen size safe zone; [5] this was only changed in 2011 when it was switched to widescreen 16:9. As of 2021, these idents have had the longest lifespan of any on a BBC channel.
On Reith and his sexuality, I take issue with the description of Reith as bi-sexual. Having researched the early history of the BBC in PhD-level depth and breadth, including reading Reith's UNEDITED diaries in the BBC Written Archive at Caversham, Berkshire, in my estimation as a properly trained historian, Reith was a homosexual.