If the congregation at Watford Parish Church 100 years ago, or 20 years ago for that matter, had been told that just before Christmas, 1927, an evening service there would be heard by at least one million people, they would have regarded their informant as having “bats in the belfry”.
Yet a million is rather an underestimate of those who will listen to the service that is to be broadcast from 2LO this Sunday evening. The marvel increases when it is realised that listeners will not be restricted to these shores.
[From the Watford Observer of December 17, 1927]
NOSTALGIA NOTE: 2LO was the second radio station to regularly broadcast in the United Kingdom. It began broadcasting on May 11, 1922, for one hour a day from the seventh floor of Marconi House in London's Strand. On 14 November, 1922, the station was transferred to the new British Broadcasting Company, later to become the British Broadcasting Corporation. The letters LO stood for “London”. The 2LO transmitter now belongs to the Science Museum.
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