This corporation's monopoly on TV broadcasting in England was broken in the 1950s by ITV
The Corporation is already coming under huge pressure as a result of the new ... 
staged the most effective spoiling tactic to the launch of ITV, with the death of... [DOC] [TLE] BBC - John Reith - Reith postwar - History of the BBC [PAR] A short time later BBC engineers installed a wireless and television set at Reith's 
home; ...