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Timeline of Events

1922

10.18.1922

The British Broadcasting Company (later Corporation) is founded by a consortium, to establish a nationwide network of radio transmitters to provide a national broadcasting service.

1923

12.31.1923

The chimes of Big Ben are broadcast on radio for the first time by the BBC.

1932

8.22.1932

The BBC first experiments with television broadcasting. (See also Timeline of the BBC.)

1954

7.5.1954

The BBC broadcasts its first television news bulletin.

1957

4.1.1957

The BBC broadcasts the spaghetti tree hoax on its current affairs programme ''Panorama''.

1969

10.5.1969

The first episode of ''Monty Python's Flying Circus'' airs on BBC.