THE BBC IS responsible for a myriad of innovations ranging from FM stereo radio and teletext to interactive television services that are accessable via the red button. The British Broadcasting Corporation has been a front runner of communications development since its creation in the early 1920s. The captains of the radio industry led by Marconi, Radio Communication Company Metropolitan-Vickers, General Electric, Western Electric and British Thomson-Houston, met at the London-based headquarters of the Institution of Electrical Engineers (IEE) to discuss how to market radio sets to the general public.
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