<P> As a result of the 2016 Licence Fee settlement, the BBC Television division was split, with in - house television production being separated into a new division called BBC Studios and the remaining parts of television (channels and genre commissioning, BBC Sport, BBC Three and BBC iPlayer) being renamed as BBC Content . </P> <P> The BBC operates several television networks, television stations (although there is generally very little distinction between the two terms in the UK), and related programming services in the United Kingdom . As well as being a broadcaster, the corporation also produces a large number of its own programmes in - house and thereby ranks as one of the world's largest television production companies . </P> <P> John Logie Baird set up the Baird Television Development Company in 1926; on 30 September 1929 he made the first experimental television broadcast for the BBC from its studio in Long Acre in the Covent Garden area of London via the BBC's London transmitter . Baird used his electromechanical system with a vertically - scanned image of 30 lines, which is just enough resolution for a close - up of one person, and a bandwidth low enough to use existing radio transmitters . The simultaneous transmission of sound and pictures was achieved on 30 March 1930, by using the BBC's new twin transmitter at Brookmans Park . By late 1930, thirty minutes of morning programmes were broadcast from Monday to Friday, and thirty minutes at midnight on Tuesdays and Fridays after BBC radio went off the air . Baird's broadcasts via the BBC continued until June 1932 . </P> <P> The BBC began its own regular television programming from the basement of Broadcasting House, London, on 22 August 1932 . The studio moved to larger quarters in 16 Portland Place, London, in February 1934, and continued broadcasting the 30 - line images, carried by telephone line to the medium wave transmitter at Brookmans Park, until 11 September 1935, by which time advances in all - electronic television systems made the electromechanical broadcasts obsolete . </P>

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