John Reith appointed General Manager of the British Broadcasting Company, a few months after the official start of British broadcasting. In 1927 he becomes director general of the British Broadcasting Corporation.
Bell and Howell and Kodak agree on 16mm standard for amateur film makers. Eastman-Kodak reversal 16mm film marketed following year.
1923
24 May
Irish Civil War formally ends after ceasefire declared.
28 September
Radio Times first published
1924
22 January
Following the loss of the Conservative majority in the House of Commons, the Labour Party forms its first government under Ramsay MacDonald, with Liberal backing.
1925
8 September
Actor Peter Sellers born in Southsea, Hampshire (d. 1980)
30 October
First television transmission of a human face (William Taynton) made by John Logie Baird in London
1926
26 January
John Logie Baird demonstrates wireless TV transmission to the Royal Institution in London
January
John Logie Baird demonstrates television
3 May
General Strike paralyses the country for nine days
1927
1 January
British Broadcasting Corporation is established
1 January
British Broadcasting Corporation created, with newly-knighted Sir John Reith as director general
24 May
John Logie Baird demonstrates transmission of television pictures over telephone lines from London to Glasgow
John Logie Baird forms Baird Television Development Company, transmitting images via a Post Office Cable and demonstrating Phonovision video disc.
British Broadcasting Company Ltd formed
First television transmission of a human face (William Taynton) made by John Logie Baird in London
John Logie Baird forms Baird Television Development Company, transmitting images via a Post Office Cable and demonstrating Phonovision video disc. 