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British Broadcasting Corporation (1927)
BBC
Summary
The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster headquartered at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff. Its main responsibility is to provide public service broadcasting in the United Kingdom, Channel Islands and Isle of Man.
The BBC is an autonomous public service broadcaster that operates under a Royal Charter and a Licence and Agreement from the Home Secretary. Within the United Kingdom its work is funded principally by an annual television licence fee, which is charged to all British households, companies and organisations using any type of equipment to record and/or receive live television broadcasts; the level of the fee is set annually by the British Government and agreed by Parliament.
Outside the UK, the BBC World Service has provided services by direct broadcasting and re-transmission contracts by sound radio since the inauguration of the BBC Empire Service in December 1932, and more recently by television and online. Though sharing some of the facilities of the domestic services, particularly for news and current affairs output, the World Service has a separate Managing Director, and its operating costs have historically been funded mainly by direct grants from the British government. These grants were determined independently of the domestic licence fee. A recent spending review has announced plans for the funding for the world service to be drawn from the domestic licence fee.
The Corporation's 'guaranteed' income from the licence fee and the World Service grants are supplemented by profits from commercial operations through a wholly owned subsidiary, BBC Worldwide Ltd. The company's activities include programme- and format-sales, magazines including the Radio Times and book publishing. The BBC also earns additional income from selling certain programme-making services through BBC Studios and Post Production Ltd., formerly BBC Resources Ltd, another wholly owned trading subsidiary of the corporation. The BBC is sometimes referred to as "Auntie" and "the Beeb".
Movie
- 2012
Quartet
Distribution- 2011
Christopher and His Kind
DistributionMy Week with Marilyn
ProductionJane Eyre
Production- 2010
Lennon Naked
Distribution- 2009
Into the Storm
DistributionIn the Loop
DistributionEmma
DistributionIran and the West
DistributionThe Men Who Stare at Goats
Distribution- More
TV show
- 2011
Case Histories
DistributionAtlantis: End of a World, Birth of a Legend
DistributionSouth Riding
ChannelRastamouse
ChannelFake or Fortune?
ChannelHuman Planet
ChannelLittle Charley Bear
ChannelFrozen Planet
ChannelDirtgirlworld
ChannelLost Christmas
Channel- More
Album
- 2002
Memoryhouse
Record label- 2001
Bob the Builder: The Album
Record label- 1998
A House: Live in Concert
Record labelWhen War is Over
Record label- 1989
At the Beeb
Record label- 1987
I Want Tomorrow
Record labelThe Peel Sessions
Record labelEnya
Record label- 1984
Return of the Condor
Record label- 1982
The Flight of the Condor
Record label- More
Game
- 2007
Adventure Rock conecter game
Developer- 2006
Climate Challenge
Publisher- 2002
Dinosaur World
Publisher
- Novel
Northern Lights Audio
p.
2002
ISBN :The Subtle Knife Audio
p.
2002
ISBN :Douglas Adams's Guide to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
p.
1998
ISBN : 9780563552369