Editing History of broadcasting (section)

=== United Kingdom===
[[File:INF3-49 Sir John Reith Artist Wooding.jpg|left|thumb|Caricature of Sir John Reith, by Wooding]]
The first experimental music broadcasts, from [[Guglielmo Marconi|Marconi's]] factory in [[Chelmsford, England|Chelmsford]], began in 1920. Two years later, in October 1922, a consortium of radio manufacturers formed the [[British Broadcasting Company]] (BBC); they allowed some sponsored programs, although they were not what we would today consider a fully commercial station.  Meanwhile, the first radio stations in England were experimental station [[2MT]], located near Chelmsford, and station [[2LO]] in London:  both were operated by the Marconi Company.  By late 1923, there were six stations broadcasting regularly in the United Kingdom: London's 2LO, [[Manchester|Manchester's]] [[2ZY]], and stations in [[Birmingham]] ([[5IT]]), [[Cardiff]], [[Newcastle upon Tyne|Newcastle]], and [[Glasgow]].<ref name="Now Numbers Many Millions 1923, p. 13">{{cite news|title=Radio Audience Now Numbers Many Millions|newspaper=Springfield Republican|date=September 30, 1923|page=13}}</ref>  As for the consortium of radio manufacturers, it dissolved in 1926, when its license expired; it then became the [[British Broadcasting Corporation]], a non-commercial organization. Its governors are appointed by the British government, but they do not answer to it. Lord [[John Charles Walsham Reith|Reith]] took a formative role in developing the BBC, especially in radio.<ref name="Lord Reith">{{cite news |title=News article on Lord Reith in The Guardian Newspaper, London|url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2003/jul/07/mediatop100200361|access-date=2008-10-13 | date=2003-07-07}}</ref>