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 * 1926 - British Broadcasting Company dissolved


 * 1952 - 405 line VHF Television coverage 81 percent of the United Kingdom population.


 * 1955 - 405 line VHF Television (BBC) available to 91 percent of the population of the United Kingdom.


 * 1961 - Telefis Eireann goes on the air on Channel 7 from the Kippure transmitter


 * 1981 - IBA Bluebell Hill (625 UHF) Last Day Broadcasting Thames/LWT. Southern and Westward Television cease broadcasting at midnight.


 * 1992 - TV-am's final broadcast ends at 9.25am. ITV stations Thames, TSW, and TVS, as well as the teletext service ORACLE on ITV and Channel 4, cease broadcasting at midnight.


 * 1999 - The BBC broadcast 2000 Today - the longest and most ambitious international broadcast undertaken to that date


 * 2004 - Channel 4 launches their new idents and presentation with an updated 3D logo, still in use today.