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| The turning point
for television came in 1953 with the Coronation. In the build up to
the great day 526,000 television sets were bought. By this time a
set would cost you about £85.00 and it was estimated that there
were two and a half million sets in Britain. It also introduced the
voice of the BBC, Richard Dimbleby. |
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Richard Dimbleby
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| The broadcast started at 10 a.m. with Sylvia
Peters introducing Berkeley Smith the commentator outside Buckingham
Palace, and it ended at 11.30 p.m. when Richard Dimbleby said good
night from an empty Westminster Abbey. The Coronation was the biggest
television event in history. It was estimated that 20 million people
in Britain watched the event, if I remember correctly, most of them
were in my front room. It was beamed around the world with an estimated
audience of 277 million. The BBC did all of this for £44,000.
It now costs more than that for one episode of 'Blind Date' ........
that's progress. |
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