 On 27 June 1946, the alternative International Broadcasting Organisation (IBO) was founded with 26 members and without British participation.The following day the IBU met in General Assembly and an attempt was made to dissolve it but failed; though 18 of its 28 members left to join the IBO.For a period of time in the late 1940s both the IBU and IBO vied for the role of organising frequencies but Britain decided to be in involved in neither.