Ceremonies
The first awards ceremony was in 1977 and there have been 32 editions to date (with no ceremonies held between 1978 and 1981). The 2013 BRIT Awards will be held in February 2013.
The last BPI Awards was the first of the ceremonies to be broadcast on live television, by the BBC in 1988. BBC continued to broadcast the renamed BRIT Awards, live in 1989 and pre-recorded from 1990–1992. BBC Radio 1 has provided radio coverage since 2008.
ITV have broadcast the awards since 1993, pre-recorded until 2006 and live from 2007 onwards.
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Famous quotes containing the word ceremonies:
“In ceremonies of the horsemen,
Even the pawn must hold a grudge.”
—Bob Dylan [Robert Allen Zimmerman] (b. 1941)
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