{"id":15519,"date":"2015-11-13T07:58:07","date_gmt":"2015-11-13T11:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=15519"},"modified":"2015-11-13T07:58:07","modified_gmt":"2015-11-13T11:58:07","slug":"a-timeline-of-radio-in-the-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/a-timeline-of-radio-in-the-uk\/","title":{"rendered":"A timeline of radio in the UK"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Crosley-Dial\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Many thanks to SWLing Post<\/em> reader, Daniel, who shares a link to this article on the BT website<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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From Marconi and the transistor radio to DAB: the history of radio in the UK<\/h3>\n

93 years ago this week, the BBC made its first radio broadcast. We look back at some of the most significant events in radio\u2019s history.<\/strong><\/p>\n

On November 14, 1922 the British Broadcasting Company began its first radio broadcast. Since then the radio landscape has changed dramatically.<\/p>\n

Radio is still an incredibly popular medium. According to Ofcom\u2019s 2015 Communications Market Report, nine in ten UK adults listen to the radio each week. We listen for an average of 21.4 hours a week, but the way we do this has changed.<\/p>\n

Families had to huddle around the radio in the 1930s, but now we can listen to the radio anywhere, anytime using our smartphones. We look at some of the most significant milestones of British radio over the last 93 years[…]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Click here to read through the entire article and timeline at BT.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many thanks to SWLing Post reader, Daniel, who shares a link to this article on the BT website: From Marconi and the transistor radio to DAB: the history of radio in the UK 93 years ago this week, the BBC made its first radio broadcast. We look back at some of the most significant events […]<\/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":[8,3,305,288,1],"tags":[18,4091,440,375],"class_list":["post-15519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-news","category-nostalgia","category-radio-history","category-uncategorized","tag-radio","tag-radio-history","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-42j","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4787,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/tuning-in-radio-4-documentary-on-the-history-of-early-radio-in-britain\/","url_meta":{"origin":15519,"position":0},"title":"“Tuning In” Radio 4 documentary on the history of early radio in Britain","author":"Thomas","date":"November 1, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Tuning In, a history of early radio in Britain, will be broadcast November 3rd on BBC Radio 4. 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