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On 6 March 1923, Scotland's first radio broadcast took place.

This was the fifth radio station to go live and was imaginatively named 5SC. It broadcast from a small attic apartment at Rex House, 202 Bath Street, in what was then the city's thriving theatre and music hall district.

The building is still there today, with an office occupying what was once a small 'concert room'.

The only indication to passers-by of its pioneering history is a commemorative plaque on the outside of the building. The first radio broadcasts were primitive, yet highly ambitious for the time.

Technological constraints meant all programmes had to be performed live by local musicians and speakers.  The first broadcast, at 7pm on Tuesday 6th March 1923, began with a pipe band playing the popular folk tune 'Hey, Johnnie Cope'.

John Reith, the BBC's general manager, then bent to the microphone and announced that 5SC, the Glasgow station of the British Broadcasting Company, was calling.

Within weeks, 5SC was experimenting with 'simultaneous broadcasting' — the linking of radio stations throughout the country using the Post Office telephone network.

The ability to share programmes lessened the strain on local resources and, by the time additional stations were launched in Aberdeen, Edinburgh and Dundee, listeners were enjoying a significant amount of programming relayed from London. It wasn't all one-way traffic: Scotland's first 'network production' — a dramatized production of Walter Scott's novel 'Rob Roy' — was the most ambitious radio drama so far attempted anywhere in Britain when it aired nationally on 6 October 1923.

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