British Broadcasting Company
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found: Shareholders of the British Broadcasting Company, 2010.
found: Wikipedia, viewed 26 July 2022(British Broadcasting Company; British Broadcasting Company Ltd.; BBC; British commercial broadcasting company formed on 18 October 1922 by British and American electrical companies doing business in the United Kingdom; licensed by the British General Post Office, its original office was located on the second floor of Magnet House, the GEC buildings in London; the company later moved its offices to the premises of the Marconi Company; on 31 December 1926, the company was dissolved, and its assets were transferred to the non-commercial and crown-chartered British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC))
found: Wikipedia, viewed 26 July 2022:under BBC (the GPO (General Post Office) proposed that it would issue a single broadcasting licence to a company jointly owned by a consortium of leading wireless receiver manufacturers, to be known as the British Broadcasting Company Ltd; John Reith was appointed its general manager in December 1922, a few weeks after the company made its first official broadcast; replaced by a non-commercial, Crown-chartered organisation, the British Broadcasting Corporation, which came into existence on 1 January 1927, and Reith, newly knighted, was appointed its first Director General)
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1979-07-10: new
2022-07-27: revised
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