Editing BBC One (section)

===Creation of BBC1===
The BBC held a statutory [[monopoly]] on television broadcasting in the United Kingdom until [[Associated-Rediffusion]], the first [[ITV (TV network)|Independent Television]] (ITV) station, began to broadcast on 22 September 1955. The competition quickly forced the channel to change its identity and priorities, following a large reduction in its audience, as noted in the 1962 [[Pilkington Committee on Broadcasting|Pilkington Report]] on the future of broadcasting. Simultaneously, the Pilkington Report decided to award an additional television station to the BBC on the basis that ITV was in comparison lacking in serious programming.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.sixtiescity.com/Television/BritishTV.htm |title=British Television up to the end of the Sixties |publisher=Sixtiescity.com |access-date=12 September 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071024020910/http://www.sixtiescity.com/Television/BritishTV.htm |archive-date=24 October 2007 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

[[File:BBC 1 1964 ident.png|175px|thumbnail|right|Logo used in 1964<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2-Fa2kDG54|title=BBC Continuity into Royal Variety Performance 08 11 1964|date=3 April 2011|via=YouTube}}</ref>]]

BBC Television became BBC1 when [[BBC2]] launched on 20 April 1964, transmitting an incompatible [[625 lines|625-line]] image on [[Ultra high frequency|UHF]]. The only way to receive all channels was to use a complex "dual-standard" 405- and 625-line receiver with both a VHF and a UHF [[Television antenna|aerial]] (405-line-only sets became obsolete in 1985 when VHF transmissions ended). BBC1 moved to purpose-built facilities at Television Centre on 20 September 1969. [[BBC News#1950s|Television News]] continued to use Alexandra Palace as its base and by early 1968 had even converted one of its studios to colour. In the weeks leading up to 15 November 1969, BBC1 unofficially transmitted the occasional programme in its new colour system in order to test it. At midnight on 15 November, simultaneously with ITV and two years after BBC2 had done so, BBC1 officially began 625-line [[PAL]] colour programming on UHF with a broadcast of a concert by [[Petula Clark]].<ref>{{cite web|first = Ruth |last = Mosalski|url = http://www.halifaxcourier.co.uk/news/50-still-watch-black-and.5818157.jp |title =50 still watch black and white TV in Calderdale|date = 12 November 2009 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20091115113349/http://www.halifaxcourier.co.uk/news/50-still-watch-black-and.5818157.jp |archive-date=15 November 2009 |work =Halifax Courier}}</ref> Colour transmissions could be received in monochrome via monochrome 625-line sets until the end of analogue broadcasting.

Between 1973 and 1977, BBC1 achieved an average audience share of 45% under [[Bryan Cowgill]].<ref>{{cite web|title=BRYAN COWGILL|url=http://www.transdiffusion.org/tv/tvheroes/bryancowgill|publisher=transdiffusion.org|access-date=2 June 2014}}</ref> This was the channel's most successful period in terms of audience share.

On 30 December 1980, the BBC announced plans to introduce a new [[breakfast television]] service to compete with [[TV-am]]. They stated that the new show would be broadcast before TV-am but included the caveat that the new show would not launch until at least November 1981, whereupon new licence fee income could finance the necessary extension of broadcasting hours. On 17 January 1983, one year after originally planned, the first edition of ''[[Breakfast Time (British TV programme)|Breakfast Time]]'' was shown on BBC1, becoming the first UK wide breakfast television service<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/breakfast/presenters/7706825.stm |title=Programmes &#124; Breakfast &#124; Presenters &#124; The Evolution of Breakfast |work=BBC News |access-date=1 February 2014}}</ref> and continued to lead in the ratings until 1984.<ref>{{cite news |title=TV-am takes peak breakfast ratings lead |work=[[The Times]] |date=27 August 1983}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=BBC regains lead in breakfast TV ratings |work=[[The Times]] |date=17 September 1983}}</ref>