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#102 SB: Simultaneous Broadcasting... and Mary English
On 29 August 1923, the BBC officially launched SB: Simultaneous Broadcasting.
They'd been testing SB for months, via crossed lines and cross conversations with the General Post Office. It would dramatically change the shape and big idea of what broadcasting was and could be. Using landlines, they linked stations - so a Covent Garden concert could be heard nationally for the first time, as other stations gave over the schedules to big concerts, or news bulletins, or... whatever London wanted. Generally speaking.
Yes, other stations could take over too - Birmingham or Glasgow might offer a…
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