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75 years of BBC TV

Duration:
10 minutes
First broadcast:
Wednesday 02 November 2011

On 2 November 1936 the first regular TV service in the world was launched by the BBC.

Initially it only had a few hundred viewers and was only broadcast for two hours a day.

Viewers watched variety acts beamed live from the studios.

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