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- By the end of the 1950s, 60% of the population could receive the UK's BBC TV and ITV from spillover from Northern Ireland, Wales and the west of England. Throughout the 1950s the Irish government discussed the provision of an Irish television service; this was headed up by Leon O'Broin, the secretary of the Department of Post and Telegraphs.
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Jan 11, 2020 · By 1950, an Admiral television was permanently fitted into Levittown living room walls as a standard fixture. Television had become a central home appliance and a core pastime for families....
- Edward Brennan
Throughout the 1950s the governments of Ireland were worried about the influences of British television and the popularity of the medium. By the end of the 1950s, 60% of the population could receive the UK's BBC TV and ITV from spillover from Northern Ireland, Wales and the west of England.
Television viewing in 1950s Ireland was mainly confined to the north and east coast of the country, where signals could be picked up from U.K. stations such as the BBC and ITV (after 1955). In...
05: RTÉ 1950s. Radio would continue as the only broadcast output for RTÉ in the 1950s but by the end of the decade the planning for a television service was under way. Maurice Gorham was...
The first television broadcasts in Ireland were watched in the 1950s. These initial programmes were British. This history of these early viewers, however, has been ignored. A dominant narrative has addressed the history of television in Ireland as the history of the public broadcaster Radio Telefís Éireann (RTÉ).
- Edward Brennan
- 2016
Jun 19, 2018 · 45 Morash does acknowledge that Irish people were watching television from the early 1950s. However, his subsequent discussion concentrates on the institutional creation of RTÉ rather than on the activity of Irish television audiences, 168–69.
And so, when in 1950, Leon O'Broin, the secretary at the Department of Post and Telegraphs, established a committee on Irish television, many of the old arguments and objections that had held back radio for so long were raised yet again.
