Nowadays, news is broadcast most commonly via television, but is also widely available online. However, newspapers remain a fundamental source of news as does radio news particularly in terms of immediate updates on aspects of news such as traffic, weather and local news.
News was first broadcast in the UK on the radio, which in the 1920s was fully controlled by the BBC. It was also the BBC who first broadcast on UK television in the 1950s. The British Broadcasting Cooperation remains a highly regarded source of news in the UK today, and across the world.
What was the first national newspaper in this country?
Times literary supplement - Jan 17th 1902
When was the first news broadcast?
First Radio Broadcast - BBC in 1922
Brief introduction to media history
The spread of news, rumour and gossip has been a central component of everyday life for hundreds of years. Religious tracts, pamphlets, posters, ballads and poems were in mass circulation from the introduction in England of the printing press by William Caxton in the 1470s. Newspapers, periodicals and books were commonplace amongst the literate by the mid-1700s, and by the early 19th century there were 52 London papers and over 100 other titles competing for sales, each known by their respective political interests.
By the outbreak of the First World War in 1914 newspapers were the dominant media for news. However, newsreels shown in cinemas proved to be particularly popular for the millions of people who visited their local picture house on a weekly basis. In 1922, the British Broadcasting Company was the first to broadcast experimental radio programmes. It became the British Broadcasting Corporation in 1927 when it was granted a Royal Charter. The BBC began television broadcasts in England in 1932, and these broadcasts became a regular service, known as the BBC Television Service, in 1936. The Second World War disrupted the development of television technology, but by the mid-1950s every British household wanted a television set. Today the phrase 'new media' is meant to encompass the emergence of digital, computerised, or networked information and communication technologies. All the major news networks and media channels have websites which are regularly updated and free to access, a significant factor in the decline of newspaper readerships into the 21st century. At the present time we can only guess what the historians of the future will make of the early years of the internet.
Source: http://www.intute.ac.uk
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