Abstract

George the Fifth, by the Grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland etc etc…. To all whom these Presents shall come Greeting! etc etc.... AND WHEREAS…. more than two million persons in our United Kingdom…. have applied for and taken out Licenses to instal and operate apparatus for wireless telegraphy for the purposes of receiving Broadcast programmes…. We believe that it would greatly…. be of public benefit if a Corporation…were created by the exercise of Our Royal Prerogative and certain knowledge and of Our special grace and knowledge and mere motion….
The King thus willed it and, on 1 January 1927, the British Broadcasting Corporation was so.