The original receptions of television in Spain: the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) was tuned before spanish television (TVE) in Asturias

Abstract

The present investigation on the history of television and its territorial implantation has brought to light some singularities and has highlighted inaccuracies that have been considered valid for more than half a century. The procedure used has been based on the review and exhumation of sources and on obtaining unpublished testimonies. To do this we have focused on a province — Asturias, Spain — for which we provide a new chronology that includes forgotten and/or unknown events up to the present. Our contribution supposes, on the one hand, a historical review of the implementation of television that provides a correction and specification of the events necessary to avoid errors in future teaching and research work and, on the other hand, an invitation to review the television phenomenon and its chronology in other regions in which there may have been similarities with the findings that we present here.