commercial radio started in the uk on 2 may 1955.
commercial radio started in the uk on 2 may 1955.
when did commercial radio start in the uk?
2 may 1955
although no other broadcasting organisation was licensed in the uk until 1973, commercial competition soon opened up from overseas. the english language service of radio luxembourg began in 1933 as one of the earliest commercial radio stations broadcasting to britain and ireland. with no possibility of commercial broadcasting available from inside the uk, a former british royal air force captain and entrepreneur (and from 1935 conservative party member of parliament) named leonard f. plugge set up his own international broadcasting company in 1931. the ibc began leasing time on transmitters in continental europe and then reselling it as sponsored english-language programming aimed at audiences in britain and ireland. because plugge successfully demonstrated that state monopolies such as that of the bbc could be broken, other parties became attracted to the idea of creating a new commercial radio station specifically for this purpose. it was an important forerunner of pirate radio and modern commercial radio in the united kingdom. the onset of world war ii silenced all but one of the original ibc stations; only radio luxembourg continued its nightly transmissions to britain.
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