.. COLOUR TELEVISION...BBC- 1...BB' -2... RADIO...BROADCASTING TO THE WORLD...ENGINEERING... FINANCE...ORGANIZATION AND WHO'S WHO... 7s 6d www.americanradiohistory.com =111i._ www.americanradiohistory.com BBC HANDBOOK 1967 www.americanradiohistory.com l'''' 1: . 7`.: la. 1 1 1 - I , t-r - LI' * 7 -=? 1 : , r y ti , r 1 I Irl ti L J l' f - L .,r r 1 `-L T i Y pi, I . _ .L , ti1 _s : _ I LI T I ,1 L - _=Vim, ,r 5!I ` ° , r, , 4., 1 1 Y LF ' i 7T www.americanradiohistory.com BBC HANDBOOK 1967 British Broadcasting Corporation Broadcasting House London W.1 www.americanradiohistory.com The colours of-the strips on the cover represent the primaries used in colour television and their complementarles Q BBC 1967 Printed in England by Richard Clay (The Chaucer Press), Ltd., Bwrgay, Suffolk No. 6980 www.americanradiohistory.com Contents Board of Governors 8 Introduction 9 Colour Programmes 11 David Attenborough, Controller BBC-2 Television Preparing for Colour 14 J. Redmond, Senior Superintendent Engineer, Television Atlantic Relay-A new stage in world broadcasting 17 Tangye Lean, Director of External Broadcasting Radio in 1967 20 Frank Gillard, Director of Sound Broadcasting 1966 Awards 24 Television The Television Service 25 International Television 29 Television Enterprises 33 The Audiences 36 Analysis of Programme Content 38 Radio The Radio Services 39 Radio Enterprises 43 The Audiences 43 Analysis of Programme Content 45 The Programme Services and the Public Regional Broadcasting 47 News Broadcasts 49 Religious Broadcasts 51 Educational Broadcasts 53 5 www.americanradiohistory.com Music Broadcasts 62 Broadcasting and Parliament 65 Audience Research 70 International Relations 73 The External Services Broadcasting to the World 79 The Output 81 The Organization 82 News to the World 82 The Overseas Services 83 The European Services 85 English by Radio and Television 86 Rebroadcasting 87 Summary of Transmissions 96 Audience Studies 98 External Services Engineering 99 The Monitoring Service 100 Table: External Broadcasting 103 Table: World Radio and Television Receivers 104 Engineering Transmitting the programmes 105 Colour television 106 Stereophony 106 Television and sound radio transmitters 107 BBC-1 and VHF radio transmitting stations London and the South -East 108 BBC -1 and VHF radio Midlands 110 BBC -1 and VHF radio West 112 BBC -1 and VHF radio North 114 BBC Wales, BBC-1, and VHF radio Wales 116 BBC -1 and VHF radio Scotland 118 BBC -1 and VHF radio Northern Ireland 120 BBC -2 development 122 Map: BBC -2 123 Table: VHF sound radio transmitting stations 124 6 www.americanradiohistory.com Table: BBC-1 and BBC Wales transmitting stations 125 Table: Long- and medium-wave transmitting stations 128 How to get the best reception 130 Short-wave reception 132 Frequency allocations 134 Table: Transmitting stations and studios 137 Engineering training 138 Reference The BBC's Powers and Obligations 139 The National Broadcasting Councils 145 Advisory Councils and Committees 146 Programme Contracts 158 Copyright 160 Staff 162 Organization and Senior Staff 167 BBC Finance 176 Comparison of Programme Services Costs 177 Licence Fees in Europe 196 Broadcast Receiving Licences 196 BBC Publications 199 Reith Lectures 203 BBC Orchestras 204 Auditions, Gramophone Record Requests 205 Writing to the BBC, Submission of Scripts and Scores 206 Visits to BBC Premises 207 Tickets for BBC Shows, SOS Messages 207 Appeals for Charity 208 Weather Forecasts (with Map) 209 BBC Addresses at Home and Overseas 211 Some BBC Dates 216 The Charters of the BBC 226 The Charter (full text) 228 The Licence (full text) 242 Bibliography 253 Index 257 7 www.americanradiohistory.com British Broadcasting Corporation Board of Governors The Rt Hon. The Lord Normanbrook, c.c.s. (Chairman) Mr Robert Lusty (Vice - Chairman) Professor Glanmor Williams (National Governor for Wales) Lady Baird, C.B.E. (National Governor for Scotland) Sir Richard Pim, K.B.E., V.R.D., D.L. (National Governor for Northern Ireland) Lord Fulton J. H. P. Trower, C.B.E., F.C.A. Dame Anne Godwin, D.B.E. Sir Ashley Clarke, c.c.M.c., c.c.v.o. Lord Fulton was appointed a Governor and Vice- Chairman on 19 September 1964 for a period of five years but was succeeded as Vice- Chairman on 11 June 1966 by Mr Robert Lusty, who was re- appointed a Governor on that date for a period ending on 31 July 1967, when Lord Fulton will resume his duties as Vice- Chairman. 8 www.americanradiohistory.com Introduction On the publication by Her Majesty's Stationery Office of the BBC's Annual Report to Parliament 1965 -66, on 10 November 1966, the Chairman of the BBC, Lord Normanbrook, and the Director -General, Sir Hugh Greene, gave a news conference which was attended by representatives of the national and international press. The Chairman in his opening remarks outlined the progress of economy measures being undertaken by the BBC. Lord Normanbrook said: It is unusual for the Chairman and Director- General to give a News Conference on the publication of the Annual Report and Ac- counts of the BBC. But there is a special reason why we should do so this year. For the Report deals with the twelve months which ended in March 1966. And it was in February that the Government made a special appeal to the BBC to find economies which would enable them to carry on with a licence fee of £5 for a further period of about 2 years. In these last seven months the BBC has been planning the economies needed to enable them to comply with this request from the Government. First, let me emphasize the basic reason why these economies have to be made. They have to be made because we could not get the increased revenue, by way of an increase in the licence fee, which we needed in order to do the job we had been asked to do. It is worth looking back for a minute at what the BBC proposed in the way of licence fees. In 1962 we told the Government that if the licence fee was raised in April 1963 to £5 we could get through to the late 1960s. But we said that, if it was not raised, we would need a £6 licence fee in April 1965. In the event, in October 1963, the Government of the day gave us the fourth pound which they had been collecting from the public as excise duty since August 1957; and there was no further addition until August 1965, and then only to £5. This meant we had to cut the costs of our current operations, and look closely at our forward planning. It had become clear that the Government were not going to authorize any further increase in the licence fee in the immediate future. The Postmaster General, in announcing the increase to £5 for the combined licence fee, said that the Government intended to conduct a general review of broadcasting finance. The BBC, for its part, embarked on a careful review of its own expenditure, and in the 9 www.americanradiohistory.com spring of 1966 we felt able to tell the Postmaster General that, on certain assumptions about future developments, we thought we could carry on until early in 1968 on the basis of a £5 licence fee, supple- mented by recourse to temporary borrowing within the limit of £10 million up to which we are authorized under the Charter to borrow without special Treasury authority. We believe we can do this without any reduction in the stand- ard of our programmes or noticeable loss to our existing services. But this is a short-term policy, designed to meet emergency condi- tions. The money we borrow will have to be paid back. We shall need an increase in revenue at the end of this period of stringency. We therefore hope that the licence fee will be increased to £6 early in 1968. We believe in the licence fee system as the cheapest and soundest way of financing the kind of broadcasting the BBC pro- vides. Even at £6 ours would still be just about the cheapest licence fee in Europe. And properly financed in this way the BBC can keep up its past record of progress. We have set ourselves the target of saving £7 million in capital expenditure in the three years to 31 March 1969. These savings will be almost entirely by way of deferment of projects. For operating expenditure our target is a saving building up to £3 million a year by 1 April 1968. On capital expenditure the two largest savings to be made are the deferment of the rebuilding of our Regional headquarters in Bir- mingham and Manchester. On operating expenditure the savings will come from a relatively large number of miscellaneous economies. The largest of these will be a saving of over £100,000 a year through the integration of technical operators and studio managers in our sound studios. As a result of these economy measures our overdraft has been kept down to a figure of just under £2 million at 31 March 1966. I am satisfied that the savings projected for 1966/67 will be met. We still have some distance to go in planning the further economies needed in the two following years, but I believe that we can reach our targets. 10 www.americanradiohistory.com Colour Programmes David Attenborough Controller BBC-2 Television From its very beginning, BBC -2 has been showing colour pro- grammes - in monochrome versions. `The Virginian', `The Danny Kaye Show', many of our feature films, and several of our own domestically-produced documentaries were shot in colour.