Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
In the UK, most broadcasters provide catch-up TV services which allow viewing of TV for a window after it was broadcast. Online video can be viewed via mobile devices, computers, TVs equipped with a built in Internet connection, or TVs connected to an external set-top-box, streaming stick or games console.
2007 in British television – A series of scandals involving allegations of phone-in segments of television programmes and quiz channels conning viewers, The BBC launches BBC iPlayer, The town of Whitehaven in Cumbria becomes the first place in the UK to lose their analogue television signals and start the digital switchover and ITV Play is ...
This is a timeline of cable television in the United Kingdom.. The first part of the timeline covers the development of cable across the country, including details of the cable-exclusive channels which launched in the 1990s as part of cable television's attempt to compete with BSkyB's satellite television.
The outbreak of the Second World War in 1939 led to the suspension of television broadcasts in the UK. The television licence was introduced in June 1946 to coincide with the post-war resumption of the BBC service the same month. Television licences always included a licence to receive radio broadcasts. From 1971, only the reception of ...
9 November – BBC News 24, the corporation's UK television news service, launches at 17.30. It is initially only available to viewers with cable television, but is simulcast on BBC1 overnight. December – ITN purchases a 49% share of Euronews [18] and supplies the content of the channel along with the remaining shareholders. However, carriage ...
Timeline of cable television in the United Kingdom; Timeline of Carlton Television; Timeline of Central Independent Television; Timeline of Channel 4; Timeline of Channel 5; Timeline of Channel Television; Timeline of children's television on ITV; Timeline of children's television on other British TV channels; Timeline of children's television ...
Family watching TV, 1958. The concept of television is the work of many individuals in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The first practical transmissions of moving images over a radio system used mechanical rotating perforated disks to scan a scene into a time-varying signal that could be reconstructed at a receiver back into an approximation of the original image.
30 July – The Television Act 1954 paves the way for the launch of commercial television in the UK. 26 October – The Independent Television Authority (ITA) awards the first franchises which include weekday and weekend franchises for London,. [1]