Editing BBC One (section)

===Early years and launch===
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The BBC began its own regular television programming from the basement of [[Broadcasting House]], London, on 22 August 1932. The channel officially began regular broadcasts on 2 November 1936 at three o'clock in the afternoon from a converted wing of the [[Alexandra Palace]] in London.<ref>{{cite book|first=R.W.|last=Burns|title=Television: An International History of the Formative Years|location=London|publisher=The Institution of Electrical Engineers|year=1998|pages=ix|isbn=0-85296-914-7}}</ref>

On 1 September 1939, two days before Britain declared [[World War II|war]] on Germany, the station was taken off air with little warning, with the last programme to be shown being a [[Mickey Mouse]] cartoon (the 1933 short ''[[Mickey's Gala Premier]]'');<ref name=MickeyMouse>{{cite web|url=http://www.transdiffusion.org/emc/baird/tvoff/index.htm |title=The edit that rewrote history – Baird |access-date=28 May 2007 |publisher=Transdiffusion Broadcasting System |date=31 October 2005 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060125014953/http://www.transdiffusion.org/emc/baird/tvoff/index.htm |archive-date=25 January 2006 }}</ref> the government was concerned that the [[Very high frequency|VHF]] transmissions would act as a beacon to enemy aircraft that could bomb London.

BBC Television returned on 7 June 1946<ref>{{cite web |title=Television returns |url=https://www.bbc.com/historyofthebbc/research/story-of-bbc-television/television-returns/ |website=History of the BBC |publisher=BBC |access-date=1 July 2024}}</ref> at three o'clock in the afternoon. [[Jasmine Bligh]], one of the original announcers, made the first announcement, saying, "Good afternoon everybody. How are you? Do you remember me, Jasmine Bligh?". Twenty minutes later, BBC Television again aired the Mickey Mouse cartoon that they had broadcast in 1939.<ref>
{{cite news|last=Rohrer|first=Finlo|title=Back after the break|work=Magazine|publisher=BBC News|date=7 June 2006|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/5054802.stm|access-date=25 April 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070313100756/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/5054802.stm|archive-date=13 March 2007 |url-status=live}}</ref>