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BBC

British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC).

Subject

BBC stands for the British Broadcasting Corporation.

In 1904, the British government stipulated that a licence was required for both broadcasting and receiving radio news. Broadcasting became the monopoly of the BBC in 1922, for a period of seventy-five years.[1]

Under regulation 'VO 35/40' of 4 July 1940, it was only permitted to listen to stations within the German-occupied Dutch territory and within the Greater German Reich.[2] This prohibited listening to the BBC,[3] but this station was not initially hampered by jammers.[4]

Footnotes

  1. ^ Eric Smulders en Huub Wijfjes, “De ontwikkeling van de radio in de periode ±1850 - ±1950”, in: M.S.C. Bakker e.a., Techniek als cultuurverschijnsel. Casusboek, Heerlen: Open Universiteit, 1996, p. 139-238, aldaar p. 203.
  2. ^ Verordeningenblad voor het bezette Nederlandsche gebied 1940, p. 135-136.
  3. ^ The people hiding in the Secret Annex tuned their radio to the BBC more than once. Anne Frank, Diary Version A, 27 March, 21 April and 9 June 1944, in: The Collected Works, transl. from the Dutch by Susan Massotty, London [etc.]: Bloomsbury Continuum, 2019.
  4. ^ L. de Jong, Het Koninkrijk der Nederlanden in de Tweede Wereldoorlog. Deel 4: mei '40 - maart '41 : eerste helft, Den Haag: Nijhoff, 1972, p. 303.