What was the very first radio commercial ever broadcast?
Here is your link to hear the ad broadcast on LBC:
audioboom.com/posts/487762-bird-s-eye-the-first-ad?playlist_direction=forward
Following this momentous occasion many more commercial stations were licensed in the UK, here is a timeline:
1973
8 October - LBC
16 October - Capital Radio
31 December - Radio Clyde,
1974
19 February - BRMB
2 April - Piccadilly Radio
15 July - Metro Radio
30 September - Swansea Sound,
1 October - Radio Hallam
21 October - Radio City
1975
22 January - Radio Forth
8 February - Radio City
19 May - Plymouth Sound
24 June - Radio Tees
3 July - Radio Trent
16 September - Pennine Radio
14 October - Radio Victory
28 October - Radio Orwell
1976
8 March - Radio 210
16 March - Independent Local Radio
12 April - Beacon Radio,