Fell down a rabbit hole:
Aug. 29th, 2014 07:05 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sister_luckA link to the BBC Yearbook from 1930 has put all my other online activities on hold.
I first came across it when I read this tweet:
The ensuing conversation gave me this:
And now it's over for me -
the discussion on the relationship between the wireless, the theatre, talking movies and silent movies and the very new television (made by "televisionists") is fascinating including this:
(There is a lot of truth there, even if the language sounds strange to us.)
Also there is mention of "the evil of 'song plugging'" on p. 55 described as a "system in which payments are made to by certain music publishing firms to dance band leaders" so that the music published by them "may be given preference in broadcast programmes". The BBC decided to stop announcing the titles of dance music they played. I had known about Payola, but 'song plugging' was new to me.
Best so far is p. 143 about the broadcasting of football. I give you this:
"The past year has been chiefly notorious for the refusal of the Football Association to allow the Cup Final to be broadcast except on the payment of a large fee, the amount of which they refused to state."
The BBC was willing to give money to charity, but they couldn't come to an agreement so in the end
the BBC
"rather than allow the thousands of football enthusiasts all over the country to miss the broadcast, arranged for it to be carried out from a position outside the stadium by relays of commentators who had paid for their entry to the ground in the ordinary way. This action was entirely successful, and the action of the B.B.C. met with general approval."
The commercialisation of football started early!
Also, "eye-witness" gets quotation marks.
I first came across it when I read this tweet:
Official BBC Instructions on How to Listen to the Radio, circa 1940: pic.twitter.com/sa2jZqPDrw ht @julesette66 @geminicollision
— WFMU (@WFMU) August 26, 2014The ensuing conversation gave me this:
@wfmu @julesette66 @geminicollision It's from "The B. B. C. Year-Book 1930" (1928/29) page 61 http://t.co/R6XKgnJZDW
— _blank (@null66913) August 26, 2014And now it's over for me -
the discussion on the relationship between the wireless, the theatre, talking movies and silent movies and the very new television (made by "televisionists") is fascinating including this:
(There is a lot of truth there, even if the language sounds strange to us.)
Also there is mention of "the evil of 'song plugging'" on p. 55 described as a "system in which payments are made to by certain music publishing firms to dance band leaders" so that the music published by them "may be given preference in broadcast programmes". The BBC decided to stop announcing the titles of dance music they played. I had known about Payola, but 'song plugging' was new to me.
Best so far is p. 143 about the broadcasting of football. I give you this:
"The past year has been chiefly notorious for the refusal of the Football Association to allow the Cup Final to be broadcast except on the payment of a large fee, the amount of which they refused to state."
The BBC was willing to give money to charity, but they couldn't come to an agreement so in the end
the BBC
"rather than allow the thousands of football enthusiasts all over the country to miss the broadcast, arranged for it to be carried out from a position outside the stadium by relays of commentators who had paid for their entry to the ground in the ordinary way. This action was entirely successful, and the action of the B.B.C. met with general approval."
The commercialisation of football started early!
Also, "eye-witness" gets quotation marks.
