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The first Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú broadcast

It's now 100 years since the first ever Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú broadcast. This is the story of how our first bulletin made it to the airwaves.

It's now 100 years since the first ever Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú broadcast. And while we have a good idea what the opening words were and what was in the first news bulletin, it's after that a bit a mystery. There was no Radio Times and no one was keeping an accurate record of what was being broadcast.

Now, a hundred years on, researchers have been piecing together what was going out on air and discovering that while the first ‘official’ broadcast came from London, much of the pioneering work was coming from a separate Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú in the North.

For the latest episode of 5 Minutes On, our media and arts correspondent David Sillito has been looking back at exactly how the first Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú bulletin made it onto the airwaves.

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