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
BBC HD (international) would be launched in 2008. However, the HD version did not begin broadcasting until 20 July 2009. BBC HD started broadcasting to the Scandinavian countries in 2008. A localised Latin American feed started in 2011. In 2012 a Brazilian feed was created, though later that year, the Brazilian feed merged with that for the rest of the region, with separate audio and subtitle channels. It was launched in Romania on 31 December 2010, but closed on 6 August 2013. BBC First replaced BBC HD in Poland on 26 October 2018. BBC HD Nordics was a television channel broadcasting high-definition programming