Ironically, it was Hoyle who coined the phrase that came to be applied to Lemaître's theory, referring to it as " this big bang idea " during a BBC Radio broadcast in March 1949.

It's That Man Again ( or, commonly, ITMA ) was a BBC radio comedy programme which ran from 1939 to 1949.

The orchestra's workload in these years was second only to the other self-governing London orchestra, the LPO: the LPO played 248 concerts in the 1949 – 50 season ; the LSO 103 ; the BBC SO 55 ; the Philharmonia and RPO 32 each.

From 1949 to 1991 the complex was used by the BBC.

* November 3 – Starlight ( UK ), a variety show, debuts on the BBC ( 1936 – 1939 ; 1946 – 1949 )

Television was first received in Ireland from 1949, following the opening of high power BBC transmitters at Sutton Coldfield and later Holme Moss, giving marginal reception along parts of the East coast.

A talented pianist, he performed his piano works in London in 1947, 1948, and 1949, invited by the BBC, and as a recipient of a scholarship from the British Council.

The BBC notes, " Cwmbrân ( valley of the river Brân ) was the name given to a new town created in 1949 under the New Towns Act 1946.

In 1949 Green devised a talent show called Opportunity Knocks, which was commissioned by BBC Radio.

After the war, he started his successful Sunday lunchtime radio show on BBC, the Billy Cotton Band Show, which ran from 1949 to 1968.

( The studios at Lime Grove were sold to the BBC in 1949.

The first story ' Dilly Dally and the Dutchess ' was part of the opening broadcast from the new BBC Dundee Studio on August 27, 1949 and Janet Easson regularly broadcast her Nibblers short stories until 1965.

Performers of popular music began appearing as early as the late 1940s ; Delia Murphy popularised Irish folk songs that she recorded for HMV in 1949 ; Margaret Barry is also credited with bringing traditional songs to the fore ; Donegal's Bridie Gallagher shot to fame in 1956 and is considered ' Ireland's first international pop star '; Belfast-born singer Ruby Murray achieved unprecedented chart success in the UK in the mid-1950s ; The Bachelors were an all-male harmony group from Dublin who had hits in the UK, Europe, US, Australia and Russia ; Mary O ' Hara was a soprano and harpist who was successful on both sides of the Atlantic in the 1950s and early 1960s ; Waterford crooner Val Doonican had a string of UK hits and presented his own TV show on the BBC from 1965 to 1986.

Come Dancing was a BBC TV ballroom dancing competition show that ran on and off from 1949 to 1998, becoming one of television's longest-running shows.

Hurndall acted with the BBC radio drama repertory company from 1949 to 1952.

Sir Frederick Wolff Ogilvie ( 7 February 1893 – 10 June 1949 ) was Director-General of the BBC from 19 July 1938 ( aged 45 ) to 26 January 1942, and was succeeded by joint Directors-General Cecil Graves and Robert W. Foot.

With the success of Gamesmanship, Potter left the BBC in 1949, ended his existing journalistic commitments, and briefly became editor of a weekly, Leader Magazine.

On Friday 1 April 1949, Norman Collins, the then Controller of the BBC Television Service, announced at the Television Society's annual dinner at the Waldorf Hotel that a new TV centre would be built in Shepherd's Bush.

* Stephen Mitchell ( born 1949 ), journalist, Head of Radio News at the BBC.

The original radio version started on the BBC Light Programme from 18 February to 30 September 1949 but moved to Radio Luxembourg in the 1950s.

The Lime Grove site was taken over by the BBC in 1949 and used for TV current affairs and other programmes until it closed in 1991.

* The Lost World ( 1949 ; BBC Light Programme radio serial )

The BBC had purchased the rights to a television version of Nineteen Eighty-Four soon after its publication in 1949, with Kenneth Tynan having apparently originally been keen on adapting the work.

On 17 December 1949, it became the first television transmitter to broadcast outside London and the Home Counties, bringing BBC Television to viewers outside of the south-east of England for the first time.

Jerry Wolman bought the franchise in 1963 from the " Happy Hundred ," a group of investors who owned the team from 1949 – 1963, for $ 5, 505, 000 ( equal to $ today ).

It had been the Northern Horticultural Society's trial ground and display garden since they bought it in 1949.

In 1949, Mills Station was bought by Mr. and Mrs. Lerch, parents of later Fire Chief Bob Lerch and famous baseball player Randy Lerch.

A few years later, in 1949, Alfred Winslow Jones founded a fund ( that was unregulated ) that bought stocks while selling other stocks short, hence hedging some of the market risk, and the hedge fund was born.

by 1949, the last of the private utilities had been bought up, making Nebraska the only state in the nation to be served entirely by public power.

At the end of the war the government ceased operation, and in 1949 Albert LaPierre and Jack Peterson bought the abandoned airstrip and began filling it with modest cinder-block houses.

It ceased to operate in 1936, and gradually became derelict until it was bought by Bob Morse in 1949, after he moved to Norfolk.

In 1949, they bought Farley Farm House in Sussex.

The Ford Motor Company opened a commercial vehicle component factory at Langley Airfield in 1949, and then bought the entire ex-Hawker site in 1959.

In 1949, Beebe bought this estate to use a permanent research station to replace Rancho Grande.

The game was bought by Milton Bradley Company ( now owned by Hasbro ) and first published in 1949.

A few years later, in 1949, the Government of British Columbia bought the ski area.

Warner Bros. had just bought rights to Hunt's novel Bimini Run when he joined the CIA in October 1949 as a political action specialist, in what came to be called their Special Activities Division.

In 1949, KMB bought 20 Daimler double-deckers from England, becoming the first operator to operate double-deckers in Hong Kong.

In 1949, Nathan moved the label to Cincinnati, Ohio and in 1951 he bought out the Braun brothers completely.

; July, 1949: K-225-An improved version of the K-125 ; the U. S. Navy bought two and the Coast Guard one for $ 25, 000 each.

In 1949, Young bought a house in Omemee, Ontario, near Peterborough.

Camp Hi-Sierra was created in 1949 with land that the Santa Clara County Council bought within the Stanislaus National Forest.

In 1949, the city of Tampa bought a 720 acre grassy parcel between the airport and West Tampa from the federal government with the idea of eventually building a community sports complex.

By the end of the 1948 / 1949 financial year, the Development Corporation had bought of land in West Green, and was negotiating the acquisition, mostly by compulsory purchase order, of another.

Boomer died in an airplane crash in 1947 and Conrad Hilton bought The Waldorf Astoria in 1949.

He bought a permanent house in 1949 and listed Key West as his primary residence until his death in 1983.

The Trustees of SwCC bought the property from the Perry estate in 1949 and began operation the following Fall.

Upon completion of therapy in 1949, Keyes returned to South Miami, Florida where he resumed work in real estate and bought a specially equipped speedboat for racing.