November 25, 2017

'There is no news': What a change from 1930 to today

... 87 years ago, on 18 April 1930, the BBC's news announcer had nothing to communicate. "There is no news," was the script of the 20:45 news bulletin, before piano music was played for the rest of the 15-minute segment.

The wireless service then returned to broadcasting from the Queen's Hall in Langham Place, London, where the Wagner opera Parsifal was being performed.

How times have changed.

a family around a wireless radio, listening to the news

Read more at http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-39633603

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