L'histoire De La BBC

THE BBC AND ITS ROLE

The British Broadcasting Corporation most called the BBC is a British public service broadcasting, created in 1922 by John Reith, the BBC is today the oldest tv channel of the world, broadcasted in 200 countries and the largest broadcaster in the world by number of employees, with about 23,000 staff.

The BBC is headquartered in London. Since its beginings, the BBC had have a great influence on the population but we can ask the question : What’is the situation now ? Does the BBC have the same role and influence than in the past.

Firstly, we will see the history with the importants dates and its evolution then we could see its role now and its controversies.

I-The history

In this part, I am going to talk about the most important dates of the history of BBC.

As said previously, the BBC was created on 18 october 1922 in the United Kingdom. The BBC is a company of broadcasting of radio and television quickly enjoys a good reputation at the cultural level.

BBC launches two experimental stations called 2MT and 2LO and broadcasts its first transmission on 14 November 1922 at Marconi House in London. That year its founder became its first general manager.

In 1927, the BBC became the British Broadcasting Corporation. The BBC is the British Broadcasting Corporation, that is to say, a public company incorporated (constituée) by Royal Charter. John Reith, who continues to manage the BBC until 1936, establishes the public service broadcaster whose goals are to educate, inform and entertain.

The BBC was a monopoly (en situation de monopole) until 1955. It will be during the Second World War the status of radio of the resistance in Europe and the support for the army and the population of the United Kingdom.

During the Second World War television broadcasting was prohibited (from September 1939 to June 7, 1946) to better leave room (laisser place) for radio broadcasts.

The role of the BBC during the Second World War was very important, its radio broadcasts helped to unite, inform, and ameliorate the mood (l’humeur) of the army.

During the war it was difficult to get information because roads that were often damaged. The BBC broadcast information in all the Europe. It was real information and not just propaganda. Europeans could rely on this information.

18 June 1940, Winston Churchill gave this permission to use the BBC to General Charles de Gaulle. Charles de Gaulle made a call to resistant of France who occupied by the Nazis during the Petain’s government negotiated with Nazi Germany.

The speech explained that we should not stop fighting (qu’il ne fallait pas cesser la guerre) because the war was global and united forces of allies (les forces unis des alliers) could be higher than the Nazi forces, they could eliminate them and liberate France.

This speech is considered founder of the French resistance (comme fondateur de la résistance française), it is known as "the Appeal of 18 June" is one of the most important speeches in French history resistant.

On 13 March 2013 the center of BBC television in London closed. Opened in 1960 it was the headquarters of the BBC for 53 years, many famous programs were

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