BBC One

BBC One is the primary television channel of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC). It was launched on 2 November 1936 as the BBC Television Service, and was the world's first regular, public television service with a high level of image resolution. It was later renamed BBC TV until the launch of sister channel BBC Two in 1964. The channel has an annual budget of £840 million. Along with the BBC's other domestic television station, it is funded entirely by the television licence fee, and therefore shows uninterrupted programming with no commercial advertising. Baird Television made Britain's first television broadcast on 30 September 1929 from its studio in Long Acre, London via the BBC's London transmitter, using the electromechanical system pioneered by John Logie Baird. This system used a vertically-scanned image of 30 lines — just enough resolution for a close-up of one person, and with a bandwidth low enough to use existing radio transmitters. Simultaneous transmission of... full article at wikipedia