BBC – 100 years old

It was on October 18, 1922, when the British Broadcasting Corporation was founded. It actually started transmissions on November 14, 1922, with the voice of Arthur Burrows, the director of programmes saying with a crackling voice on Short Wave radio: ‘This is 2LO, Marconi House, London Calling.’ One hundred years later, it still is a media giant, even though budget cuts and changing media scenarios are raising repeated questions about its future. BBC World Service broadcasts in 42 languages to about 464 million people a week globally. I was a fan of Short-Wave radio in my teenage years, and I even used to receive the monthly magazine ‘London Calling,’ while trying to listen to various programmes with all the expected interference and atmospheric noise. We wish the very best to a priceless service that have kept us connected for the past 100 years.