5IT
5IT was a
radio station which broadcast from Birmingham, England
, between 1922 and 1927.
Birmingham was the first British city outside
Witton base at 17:00 on 15 November 1922,[1]: 207 one day after 2LO started daily BBC broadcasting from London[1]: 157 and one hour before the 18:00 launch of Manchester's 2ZY.[1]: 161 5IT pioneered many innovations in early broadcasting, launching Children's Hour in 1922,[2] developing sophisticated methods of programme control and employing the first full-time announcers in 1923.[3] The station's first announcer on its opening night was its general manager Percy Edgar,[3] who was to be the dominant figure in Birmingham broadcasting and the BBC's most influential regional director until his retirement in 1948.[4]
: 311
5IT moved its studios from Witton to a former cinema in
The Potteries to Norfolk
.
From 21 August 1927 the low-powered city station 5IT was replaced by the 5GB (the BBC Midland Region) – the first of the BBC's regional services[6] – broadcast from the new high powered Daventry transmitting station at Borough Hill near Daventry.[4]: 282
References
- ^ a b c Hennessy & Hennessy 2005
- ISBN 0-415-24792-6, retrieved 31 December 2009
- ^ a b Briggs 1961, p. 190
- ^ a b Briggs 1965
- ISBN 0-435-32959-6, retrieved 1 January 2010
- ^ Briggs 1978, p. 80
Bibliography
- ISBN 0-19-212926-0, retrieved 31 December 2009
- Briggs, Asa (1965), The Golden Age of Wireless, The History of Broadcasting in the United Kingdom, vol. II, London: Oxford University Press (published 1995), ISBN 0-19-212930-9, retrieved 31 December 2009
- Briggs, Asa (1978), Sound and Vision, The History of Broadcasting in the United Kingdom, vol. IV, London: Oxford University Press (published 1995), ISBN 0-19-212967-8, retrieved 1 January 2010
- Hennessy, Brian; Hennessy, John (2005), The emergence of broadcasting in Britain, Lympstone: Southerleigh, ISBN 0-9551408-0-3, retrieved 31 December 2009
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