BBC One until the first Independent Television station began to broadcast on 22 September 1955, when ITV started broadcasting. The competition quickly forced the channel to change its identity and priorities following a large reduction in its audience. The 1962 Pilkington Report on the future of broadcasting noticed this, and that ITV lacked any serious programming. It therefore decided that Britain's third television station should be awarded to the BBC. The station, renamed BBC TV in 1960, became BBC1 when BBC2 was launched on 20 April 1964 transmitting an incompatible 625-line image on UHF. The only way to receive all channels was
BBC Radio 2 Country BBC Radio 2 Country BBC Radio 2 Country is a pop-up DAB service from the BBC which launched at 12 Noon on Thursday 5 March 2015. The station covers the and is only an active during the festival. On its debut the station continued to broadcast for 12 hours each day until Sunday 8 March 2015. It returned twice so far - on 10 March 2016, closing down on 13 March 2016 and on 9 March 2017, closing down on 12th March 2017. The station will not return for the 2018 festival. A number of famous country singers have presented