In the 1950s, at least two- thirds of the population in Britain did not have a television and only 350,000 household only had one television

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”In what ways did television broadcasting change

From the 1950s to the 1970s. “

In the 1950s, at least two- thirds of the population in Britain did not have a television and only 350,000 household only had one television. The only thing which was broadcasting was”The Radio Times. “

As the years went on, there were more television programmes being broadcasted on BBC 1 and ITV. The programmes which were broadcasted on television were ”The Queen’s Speech,“ ”The Royal Windsor Big Top,“ ”The Silver Jubilee Royal Variety Gala,“ ”You Only Live Twice,“ ” Miss World,“ ”Bruce Forsyth and the Generation Game,“ ” Mike Yarwood Christmas Show,“ and ” The Morecambe and Wise Christmas show.“

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By that time in the 1970s, at least a million people were watching television. The most popular television programme that was broadcasted in the 1970s was” The Morecambe and Wise Christmas Show, “which had about 28,700,000 viewers.

In 1961, they showed live television for the very first time and it was in America when it showed a rocket taking off into space.

In 1967, television was in colour for the first time.

Broad casting on television was there for a limiting time only.

Broadcasting came as an ...

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