History of British Broadcasting: London Reports in Billboard Magazine, 1953 onwards

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As I am researching the charts in this magazine, I thought I would summarize its London reports, which I'll do every time I read one:

3.1.53 p.2 and 35: The Queen has ordered that the Coronation will be televised. TV can reach 77% of the population but the Tory govt will not extend this further because iron and steel are needed for armaments. TV manufactures are upset about this.

https://worldradiohistory.com/Archiv...1953-01-03.pdf

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10.1.53 Diana Dors is a stripper in the play 'Remains To Be Seen'

https://worldradiohistory.com/Archiv...1953-01-10.pdf

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Charles Wade as Hideo Hayakawa, I can only imagine what that looked like.

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17.1.53 Johnnie Ray will perform at the London Palladium on March 23rd, three weeks after Max Miller.

https://worldradiohistory.com/Archiv...1953-01-17.pdf

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21.2.53 Sweets taken off rationing; cinemas worried this will reduce their only sales of sweets. Parliament defeats Sunday bill so the law still bans any artist from performing in costume or make-up on a Sunday, even for charity.

https://worldradiohistory.com/Archiv...1953-02-21.pdf p.2, 59

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7.3.53 51% of people in a Daily Express poll favour commercial TV, 29% oppose, 20% don't know.

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Coronation telly (6 September 1952)