BBC One
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BBC One is a British free-to-air public broadcast television channel owned and operated by the BBC. It is the corporation's oldest and flagship channel, and is known for broadcasting mainstream progra
An image of 'Digit Al' sitting on the last BBC1 mechanical ident, taken from the last analogue BBC One Northern Ireland transmission on 23 October 2012 at 23:31 GMT
The circle idents were introduced on 7 October 2006 and were used until 4 December 2016. The Hippos ident is shown above.
BBC Television
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BBC Television is the television service of the BBC. The corporation has operated a public broadcast television service in the United Kingdom, under the terms of a royal charter, since 1 January 1927.
BBC One
…2021 Country United Kingdom Broadcast area United Kingdom Isle of Man Channel Islands Gibraltar Ireland Belgium Netherlands Switzerland France Network BBC Television Headquarters Broadcasting House, London, England Programming Language English Picture format 1080i/1080p HDTV (downscaled to 576i for the SDTV feed…
The "Television Symbol", known informally as the "Bats Wings", was the first BBC Television Service (now BBC One) ident. It was created by Abram Games and was used from 1953 to 1960.
A special ident was created in 1982 to celebrate 60 years of the BBC.