UK television licence forecast 1949

	forecast	actual	increase over forecast
			%
1949	120,000	126,567	5.5
1950	250,000	343,882	37.6
1951	500,000	763,941	52.8
1952	800,000	1,449,260	81.2
1953	1,200,000	2,142,452	78.5
1954	1,600,000	3,248,852	103.1
1955	2,000,000	4,503,766	125.2

Source: Forecasts in memorandum from BBC Director General William Haley to H Townshend, Post Office dated 9 September 1949, quoted in Report of the Broadcasting Committee 1949: Memoranda submitted to the Committee (1951)
Haley comments: 'You will appreciate that some factors such as the rate of set production ... will depend on the national economic position. [0005]
Actual licences at 31 March each year: BBC
Calculation of increase over forecast: Terra Media

 

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