BBC

====BBC versus other media====
[[File:Royal broadcast, Christmas 1934 (Our Generation, 1938).jpg|thumb|left|King [[George V]] giving the 1934 [[Royal Christmas Message]] on BBC Radio. The annual message typically reflects on the year's major events.]]
The success of broadcasting provoked animosities between the BBC and well-established media such as theatres, concert halls and the recording industry. By 1929, the BBC complained that the agents of many comedians refused to sign contracts for broadcasting, because they feared it harmed the artist "by making his material stale" and that it "reduces the value of the artist as a visible music-hall performer". On the other hand, the BBC was "keenly interested" in a cooperation with the recording companies who "in recent years&nbsp;... have not been slow to make records of singers, orchestras, dance bands, etc. who have already proved their power to achieve popularity by wireless." Radio plays were so popular that the BBC had received 6,000 manuscripts by 1929, most of them written for stage and of little value for broadcasting: "Day in and day out, manuscripts come in, and nearly all go out again through the post, with a note saying 'We regret, etc.'"<ref>''BBC Hand Book'' (1929), pp. 164, 182, 186</ref> In the 1930s music broadcasts also enjoyed great popularity, for example the friendly and wide-ranging [[BBC Theatre Organ]] broadcasts at [[St. George's Hall, London|St George's Hall]], London by [[Reginald Foort]], who held the official role of BBC Staff Theatre Organist from 1936 to 1938.<ref>{{cite journal |date=28 October 1938 |title=National Programme Daventry, 31 October 1938 20.10: Farewell to Reginald Foort |journal=[[Radio Times]] |publisher=BBC |volume=61 |issue=787 |url=http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/c92472a1092345fdbaa66216e8ed9451 |access-date=11 September 2021 |archive-date=4 October 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211004180651/https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/c92472a1092345fdbaa66216e8ed9451 |url-status=live }}</ref>