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#125 The BBC's First Relay Station: Sheffield 6FL and Fred Lloyd
We're back in our moment-by-moment timeline of British broadcasting's early days, and it's just after the BBC's first birthday...
16 November 1923: Sheffield 6FL becomes the BBC's first relay station, rebroadcasting programmes from Manchester.
But will there be original local content too? What of Sheffield's pre-BBC radio station? And is it coincidence that '6FL' could link to 'Fred Lloyd' - the man who made Sheffield broadcasting possible? Was it not he who marched into BBC Chief Engineer Peter Eckersley's office and said: "Have you heard the wireless in Sheffield? It's like an insurrection…
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