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DescriptionBBC receiver license 1923.jpg
English: A license for a radio receiver granted by the British Post Office on November 3, 1922. Broadcasting in Britain began on October 18, 1922 provided by a monopoly consortium of private radio companies called the British Broadcasting Company under the direction of the Post Office. The cost was borne not, as in the US by on-air commercial advertisements, but by an annual license on radio receivers, shown here, which cost 10 shillings. This one was purchased as an example by the Wireless World and Radio Review, a British radio magazine. The license was published in US magazines to the interest of US radio listeners, who had never had to license receivers. Only receivers with a BBC stamp were legal to sell in Britain. Licensing continued after broadcasting was nationalized in 1926 under the British Broadcasting Corporation. The words BROADCAST LICENSE at top are misleading, the license only allowed reception, as indicated by the wording lower down, not transmission.
Caption:It costs ten shillings, or about $2.35, and it's just a license to use a receiving set for a year in England, with strict rules and regulations to be observed. Part of the fee goes to support the broadcasting that the licensee hears.
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Retrieved March 4, 2014 from The Wireless Age magazine, The Wireless Publishing Co., New York, Vol. 10, No. 6, March 1923, p. 28 on Google Books
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This 1923 issue of The Wireless Age magazine would have the copyright renewed in 1951. Online page scans of the Catalog of Copyright Entries, published by the US Copyright Office can be found here. [1] Search of the Renewals for Periodicals for 1950, 1951 and 1952 show no renewal entries for The Wireless Age. Therefore the magazine's copyright was not renewed and it is in the public domain.
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