The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is the national public service broadcaster of the United Kingdom (see British television). It produces programmes and information services, broadcasting on television, radio, and the Internet. It is the largest broadcasting corporation in the world. The BBC's main domestic services on television include BBC One, BBC Two, BBC Three, BBC Four, the news channel BBC News 24, BBC Parliament and the children's channels CBBC and CBeebies. BBC One and BBC Two are available via conventio ...

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• BBC - History
• BBC - The Corporation
• BBC - Funding
• BBC - Management
• BBC - Current review of Royal Charter
• BBC - Political and commercial independence
• BBC - Location
• BBC - BBC Services
• BBC - BBC Departments
• BBC - BBC News
• BBC - Radio
• BBC - Television
• BBC - Worldwide
• BBC - Internet
• BBC - Interactive
• BBC - Unencrypted satellite transmissions

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Among its many services are domestic radio and television stations. The BBC also jointly operates a number of other broadcasting services, namely the UKTV channels, some of the Discovery channels, and several other services available on satellite & cable services in the UK. It also has many non-broadcasting commercial ventures within the United Kingdom including book & magazine publishing (BBC Books), and multimedia production services (DVDs, CDs, compute ...

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BBC - Funding. Main article: Television licence#United Kingdom The principal means of funding the BBC is through the television licence. Such a licence is required to operate a broadcast television receiver within the UK. The television licence is set by the government and enforced by the criminal law but is collected privately and does not pass through the state before reaching the BBC, and hence it is inaccurate to ref ...

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BBC - Funding. The principal means of funding the BBC is through the television licence. Such a licence is required to operate a broadcast television receiver within the UK. The television licence is set by the government and enforced by the criminal law but is collected privately and does not pass through the state before reaching the BBC, and hence it is inaccurate to ref ...

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BBC 7 is a digital radio station broadcasting comedy, drama, and children's programming 24 hours a day. It is the principal broadcasting outlet for the BBC's vast archive of spoken-word entertainment. Programmes qualify for broadcast on BBC7 if they are either three years old or more, or if they have previously been broadcast twice on their original stations. Even if a programme fulfils these criteria there may be copyright is ...

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BBC News and Current Affairs (sometimes abbreviated BBC NCA) is a major arm of the BBC responsible for the corporation's newsgathering and production of news programmes on BBC television, radio and online. It claims to be the largest broadcast news gathering operation in the world and produces almost 100 hours of output daily. The current director is Helen Boaden. BBC News carries out a key objective of the BBC's Royal Charter: to "collect news and information in any part of the wo ...

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• BBC News - History
• BBC News - News output
• BBC News - Television news
• BBC News - Radio news
• BBC News - Online news
• BBC News - Opinions of BBC News
• BBC News - Censorship
• BBC News - Hutton Inquiry
• BBC News - Aftermath of Hutton report
• BBC News - Editors

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BBC Three, the successor of the similar BBC Choice, is a British television channel from the BBC broadcasting only on digital cable, terrestrial and satellite. BBC Three was launched on February 9, 2003, eleven months after its originally planned launch date (and that of BBC Four). The delay was due to debate over its proposed format - some felt it would not be sufficiently different to existi ...

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• BBC Three - Identity
• BBC Three - Programmes
• BBC Three - Viewership
• BBC Three - Awards and criticism

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BBC America is the BBC Worldwide owned-and-operated television network in the United States, which was launched on March 29, 1998, available on both cable and satellite. Since its launch, BBC America has carried programming from the BBC and other British television networks, including comedy, drama, and lifestyle programmes. The entire schedule is given to repeats of drama, comedy such as Benny Hill and home-improvement series such as Changing Rooms. There are also four half-hour BBC World news bulletins included on weekdays -- no regularly-scheduled documentary or current affairs pro ...

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• BBC America - Examples of Idents

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BBC Two (or BBC2 as it was formerly styled) was the second UK television station to be aired by the BBC. BBC Two - History. The channel was scheduled to begin at 7:20 pm on April 20, 1964 and show an evening of light entertainment, starting with the comedy show The Alberts, a performance from Soviet comedian Arkady Raikin, and a production of Cole Porter's Kiss Me, Kate, culminating with a fireworks display. However, at around 6:45 pm a huge power failure, originating from Battersea Pow ...

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• BBC Two - History
• BBC Two - Programming
• BBC Two - Some popular programmes
• BBC Two - On screen identity
• BBC Two - BBC Two today
• BBC Two - Controllers of BBC Two

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BBC News Online (more recently referred to as simply the BBC News website) is the BBC's news web site and part of bbc.co.uk. Launched in November 1997, it is the most popular news website in the UK with around 15 million visitors every month. The website contains exhaustive international news coverage, as well as British, entertainment, science, and political news. Many reports are accompanied by audio and video from the BBC's television and radio news services. The latest ...

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BBC Wales (or BBC Cymru) is the regional branch of the British Broadcasting Corporation for Wales, and is based at Broadcasting House in Cardiff, not to be confused with Broadcasting House in London, which is the headquarters of BBC Radio. The channel debuted on 1 February 1964 to much fanfare (snappy, succinct television commercials told the area: "Wales gets its very own TV service in 1964!"). [1] Prior to 1964, the BBC had no dedicated television production centre in Wales, although television was broadcast there. ...

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• BBC Wales - Overview
• BBC Wales - Programming
• BBC Wales - Produced in-house by BBC Wales
• BBC Wales - Commissioned from independent producers by BBC Wales
• BBC Wales - External link

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BBC World is the British Broadcasting Corporation's 24-hour international current affairs TV channel with BBC News, documentaries, lifestyle programmes and interviews, and was launched in January 1995. Its main global competitor is CNN, though it also competes with News Corporation's Sky News, Fox News and Star News in other markets. The channel is based in the BBC's new Broadcast Centre and takes News feeds from BBC Television Centre both of which are in west London. BBC World - History. BBC ...

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• BBC World - History
• BBC World - Distribution
• BBC World - Programming
• BBC World - Reputation and Criticisms
• BBC World - Censorships
• BBC World - Variation
• BBC World - The Hourly Countdown
• BBC World - BBC World News

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bbc.co.uk is the URL and brand name (in the UK) for the BBC's online services. It was introduced on May 6, 2004. Under its previous names, the BBC's online service first went live in 1994. As of 2004, the current controller is Tony Ageh. Formerly BBCi (still the brand for interactive TV services) and before that BBC Online, the Web-based service of the BBC is one of the world's largest and most visited web sites (twenty-second most visited according to Alexa on 19 October 2005 [1]). It currently cont ...

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• Bbc.co.uk - History
• Bbc.co.uk - Content
• Bbc.co.uk - Streaming media
• Bbc.co.uk - Funding
• Bbc.co.uk - Graf Report
• Bbc.co.uk - Cult TV

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BBC Radio Wales is the BBC's national radio station broadcasting to Wales in the English language. Operated by BBC Wales, it began in 1978 following the demise of the old "Radio 4 Wales" (previously the Welsh Home Service) when BBC Radio 4 became a national network and moved from medium wave to long wave. BBC Radio Wales - Transmission. For many years Radio Wales was broadcast only on medium wave; the BBC considered that because the Welsh language network BBC Radio Cymru was the only network using that lang ...

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• BBC Radio Wales - Transmission
• BBC Radio Wales - Programmes
• BBC Radio Wales - Sport
• BBC Radio Wales - Radio Gwent and Radio Clwyd opt-outs

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The BBC Micro, affectionately known as the Beeb, was an early home computer. It was designed and built by Acorn Computers Ltd for the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC). In the early 1980s, the BBC started what became known as the BBC Computer Literacy Project. The project was initiated largely in response to an extremely influential BBC documentary The Mighty Micro, in which Dr. Christopher Evans from the National Physical Laboratory predicted the coming (micro)computer revolution and its impact on the ...

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• BBC Micro - Background
• BBC Micro - Market impact
• BBC Micro - Description
• BBC Micro - Hardware features Models A and B
• BBC Micro - Software and expandability
• BBC Micro - Successor machines and the retro scene
• BBC Micro - Specifications
• BBC Micro - Trivia

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The BBC Domesday Project was a partnership between Acorn Computers Ltd, Philips, Logica and the BBC to mark the 900th anniversary of the original Domesday Book, an 11th century census of England. It is frequently cited as an example of digital obsolescence. A new multimedia edition of Domesday was compiled between 1984 and 1986 and published in 1986. This included all the information from the original survey plus modern spellings of the place names, maps, and many color photos, video and 'virtual walks'. Over 1 million people participated in the projec ...

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The BBC World Service is one of the most widely recognised international broadcasters of radio programming, transmitting in 43 languages to around 150 million people throughout the world. The English service broadcasts 24 hours a day. Unlike the BBC's main radio and television services, which are primarily funded by a licence fee, the World Service is funded by the British Government through the Foreign and Commonwealth Office ...

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• BBC World Service - Statistics and languages
• BBC World Service - History
• BBC World Service - Transmission
• BBC World Service - Interval signals
• BBC World Service - News
• BBC World Service - Foreign Language Broadcasting table

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BBC One (or BBC1 as it was formerly styled) is the oldest television station in the world. It is the primary channel of the British Broadcasting Corporation, and first broadcast as the 'BBC Television Service' on November 2, 1936, although the BBC had been broadcasting experimental and test transmissions in a variety of formats since 1929. The station held a complete monopoly on television broadcasting in the UK until ITV was launched in 1955. BBC One - History. Baird Television Ltd. made Brit ...

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• BBC One - History
• BBC One - Programming
• BBC One - On-screen identity
• BBC One - Channel Controllers

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MW- 720 kHz" MW - 720 kHz BBC Radio 4 is a British domestic radio station which broadcasts a wide variety of chiefly spoken-word programmes including news, drama, comedy, science and history. It is broadcast on 92 - 95 MHz FM (95.80 MHz in central Scotland, and 103-104.5 MHz in parts of Wales) and 198 kHz longwave 720 kHz Medium wave; and via DAB, satellite (FM is broadcast on Sky channel 854 and LW is broadcast on Sky channel 893), selected Cable television providers, Freeview channel 704 and the Internet. It superseded its ...

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• BBC Radio 4 - History
• BBC Radio 4 - Programming and schedules
• BBC Radio 4 - Current schedule
• BBC Radio 4 - Current programmes
• BBC Radio 4 - News and current affairs
• BBC Radio 4 - Arts and drama
• BBC Radio 4 - Religion and ethics
• BBC Radio 4 - Comedy and quizzes
• BBC Radio 4 - Conversations
• BBC Radio 4 - Factual
• BBC Radio 4 - Science
• BBC Radio 4 - Miscellaneous
• BBC Radio 4 - Former programmes
• BBC Radio 4 - Radio 4 announcers and newsreaders

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