{"id":10724,"date":"2014-09-04T08:20:03","date_gmt":"2014-09-04T12:20:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=10724"},"modified":"2014-09-04T08:20:03","modified_gmt":"2014-09-04T12:20:03","slug":"how-to-listen-a-1930-bbc-radio-manual","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/09\/how-to-listen-a-1930-bbc-radio-manual\/","title":{"rendered":"How to listen: A 1930 BBC radio manual"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/BBC-Radio-Manual.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10730\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/BBC-Radio-Manual.jpg\" alt=\"BBC-Radio-Manual\" width=\"600\" height=\"932\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/BBC-Radio-Manual.jpg 600w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/BBC-Radio-Manual-193x300.jpg 193w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/BBC-Radio-Manual-64x100.jpg 64w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Many thanks to David Goren for sharing this article from <a title=\"Open Culture\" href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2014\/08\/1930-bbc-manual-how-to-listen-to-the-radio.html\" target=\"_blank\">Open Culture<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A comparison between the invention of radio and that of the Internet need not be a strained or superfical exercise. Parallels abound. The communication tool that first drew the world together with news, drama, and music took shape in a small but crowded field of amateur enthusiasts, engineers and physicists, military strategists, and competing corporate interests. In 1920, the technology emerged fully into the consumer sector with the first commercial broadcast by Westinghouse\u2019s KDKA station in Pittsburgh on November 2, Election Day. By 1924, the U.S. had 600 commercial stations around the country, and in 1927, the model spread across the Atlantic when the British Broadcasting Corporation (the BBC) succeeded the British Broadcasting Company, formerly an extension of the Post Office.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike the Wild West frontier of U.S. radio, since its 1922 inception the BBC operated under a centralized command structure that, paradoxically, fostered some very egalitarian attitudes to broadcasting\u2014in certain respects. In others, however, the BBC, led by \u201cconscientious founder\u201d Lord John Reith, took on the task of providing its listeners with \u201celevating and educative\u201d material, particularly avant garde music like the work of Arnold Schoenberg and the Second Viennese School. The BBC, writes David Stubbs in Fear of Music, \u201cwere prepared to be quite bold in their broadcasting policy, making a point of including \u2018futurist\u2019 or \u2018art music,\u2019 as they termed it.\u201d As you might imagine, \u201clisteners proved a little recalcitrant in the face of this highbrow policy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Continue reading at Open Culture\" href=\"http:\/\/www.openculture.com\/2014\/08\/1930-bbc-manual-how-to-listen-to-the-radio.html\" target=\"_blank\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many thanks to David Goren for sharing this article from Open Culture: A comparison between the invention of radio and that of the Internet need not be a strained or superfical exercise. Parallels abound. The communication tool that first drew the world together with news, drama, and music took shape in a small but crowded [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8,56,3,305,26],"tags":[104,3223,4094],"class_list":["post-10724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-broadcasters","category-news","category-nostalgia","category-radios","tag-bbc","tag-how-to-listen","tag-nostalgia"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-2MY","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10566,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/bbc-radio-4-extra-the-first-pirate\/","url_meta":{"origin":10724,"position":0},"title":"BBC Radio 4 Extra: The First Pirate","author":"Thomas","date":"August 19, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"The First Pirate is the title of a Radio 4 Extra--an interview with\u00a0Les Woodland who tells the story of Captain Plugge, founder of Radio Normandy, the first station to take on the BBC. 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