BBC
The BBC, or the British Broadcasting Corporation is a British television station. It is the largest broadcaster in the world with 23,000 employees working for them and is headquartered at the Broadcasting House in London. Founded on the 18th of October 1922, the BBC was the world's first national broadcasting organization. It was founded by the British General Post Office and a group of six telecommunications companies, Marconi, Radio Communication Company, Metropolitan-Vickers, General Electric, Western Electric, and British Thomson-Houston. Experimental television broadcasts were started in 1932 using an electromechanical 30-line system, developed by John Logie Baird. Regular broadcasting began in 1936, alternating between an improved Baird mechanical system, and the Marconi EMI system. Television broadcasting was suspended from the 1st of September 1939 to the 7th of June 1946 during the Second World War. A widely spread myth says that the day the BBC restarted broadcasting on the 7th of June 1946, the announcer, Leslie Mitchell, started by saying, "As I was saying before we were so rudely interrupted ...". This is actually not correct, on that day the first person to appear when transmission resumed was Jasmine Bligh and the words said were "Good afternoon, everybody. How are you? Do you remember me, Jasmine Bligh". The BBC is still one of the worlds largest television stations and hosts the world's most watched television program "Top Gear".