Articles by BBC Yearbook
Ten Years of Technical Progress
Published 6 May 2022
Looking back at the first ten years of technical developments at the BBC
Radio on the move
Published 22 November 2021
It’s all change for BBC radio as the national networks move frequencies as part of a Europe-wide reorganisation
A year of decisions
Published 6 August 2021
The BBC looks back at a momentous year for technology and broadcasting
American broadcasting
Published 9 July 2021
The BBC takes a rather sniffy view of developments in radio in the United States
Goodbye to Savoy Hill
Published 19 March 2021
As the BBC gets ready to move from Savoy Hill to Broadcasting House in 1932, the staff look back at the old headquarters
Progress in television
Published 25 September 2020
The BBC brings us up to speed on recent developments in television in 1961
BBC-2 transmitting stations
Published 27 March 2018
BBC-2 transmitters in service and planned in 1968
Years of Light
Published 26 September 2017
The BBC reviews the first two years of the Light Programme
Audience Research
Published 25 September 2017
A look at what’s popular and how popularity is measured from the BBC in 1961
The beginning of a new service
Published 4 September 2017
Pay a visit to the newly opened Brookmans Park transmitter in 1931 as the BBC’s “Regional Scheme” begins
The Coronation Broadcasts
Published 12 May 2017
The BBC’s coverage of the coronation of King George VI in 1937
The old BBC: the press, the Crawford Committee and the end
Published 10 February 2017
Part seven of our series remembering the British Broadcasting Company
The old BBC: entering the last year
Published 3 February 2017
Part six of our series remembering the British Broadcasting Company
The old BBC: material changes and programme developments
Published 27 January 2017
Part five of our series remembering the British Broadcasting Company
The old BBC: early progress and expansion
Published 20 January 2017
Part four of our series remembering the British Broadcasting Company
Direct broadcasting by satellite
Published 16 January 2017
The BBC in 1986 details what went wrong with the planned BBC/IBA satellite service
The old BBC: early difficulties and the Sykes Committee
Published 13 January 2017
Part three of our series remembering the British Broadcasting Company
The old BBC: the beginning
Published 6 January 2017
Part two of our series remembering the British Broadcasting Company
The old BBC: Remembering the British Broadcasting Company
Published 1 January 2017
The first part of our special series remembering the British Broadcasting Company, 90 years after it became today’s BBC
Under construction
Published 17 November 2016
The BBC Handbook for 1961 celebrates the opening of the first studio at Television Centre
TV80: Television To-day
Published 2 November 2016
The BBC Handbook for 1938 looks back at the first year of television
Northern exposure
Published 24 October 2016
A new BBC transmitter is being built near Slaithwaite in 1931
New Broadcasting House
Published 20 October 2016
Construction is well underway of the BBC’s new Broadcasting House in 1931
Television returns in 1946
Published 3 October 2016
The BBC Yearbook for 1947 tells us how television returned in June 1946
Heard around the world
Published 18 August 2016
The BBC Year-book of 1931 explains how a King’s speech was heard around the world