A very early printed photograph of a BBC announcer reading the news . The BBC began daily radio services in London in the 1920s on the radio station 2LO. Under the general management of 33 year old John Charles Walsham Reith the BBC began to expand its programmes on 14 December 1922. The first chief engineer was Peter Eckersley. 1927 saw the establishment of British Broadcasting Corporation by Royal Charter with Reith as its first Director-General. John Logie Baird began experimenting with television broadcasts on BBC frequencies in November 1929.

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