BBC ITV. However, the BBC monopoly on radio services would persist until 8 October 1973 when under the control of the newly renamed Independent Broadcasting Authority (IBA), the UK's first Independent local radio station, LBC came on-air in the London area. As a result of the Pilkington Committee report of 1962, in which the BBC was praised for the quality and range of its output, and ITV was very heavily criticised for not providing enough quality programming, the decision was taken to award the BBC a second television channel, BBC2, in 1964, renaming the existing service BBC1. BBC2 used the higher
The Radio 2 Breakfast Show The Radio 2 Breakfast Show The Radio 2 Breakfast Show refers to a range of programming on weekday mornings on BBC Radio 2 from 1967, and predating "Wake Up To Wogan" which started in 1993. From Radio 2's inception in 1967 a breakfast programme was broadcast in tandem with The Radio 1 Breakfast Show, featuring a mix of news, music, traffic and weather reports.. Unlike its Radio 1 counterpart which had started with a single presenter, "Breakfast Special" was a continuation of a Light Programme format which had been running since 1965 with a roster of presenters who hosted in