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BBC World Service
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The BBC announced in November 2016 that It would start broadcasting in additional languages including Igbo, Nigerian Pidgin, Yoruba and Amharic, in its biggest expansion since the 1940s. In 2015 World Service reached an average of 210 million people a week, the English-language service broadcasts 24 hours a day. The World Service is funded by the United Kingdoms television licence fee, limited advertising, the service also gets £289 million each year from the UK government. The World Service was funded for decades by grant-in-aid through the Foreign, the Director of the BBC World Service Group is Francesca Unsworth. The controller of BBC World Service, English, is Mary Hockaday, the BBC World Service began in 1932 as the BBC Empire Service, broadcasting on shortwave and aimed principally at English speakers across the British Empire. In his first Christmas Message, King George V stated that the service was intended for men and women, so cut off by the snow, the desert, or the sea, first hopes for the Empire Service were low. The programmes will neither be very interesting nor very good and this address was read out five times as it was broadcast live to different parts of the world. On 3 January 1938, the first foreign-language service was launched in Arabic, programmes in German started on 29 March 1938, and by the end of 1942 broadcasts were being made in all major European languages. As a result, the Empire Service was renamed the BBC Overseas Service in November 1939, and these were financed not from the domestic licence fee but from government grant-in-aid, and known administratively as the External Services of the BBC. The External Services broadcast propaganda during the Second World War and its French service Radio Londres also sent coded messages to the French Resistance. George Orwell broadcast many news bulletins on the Eastern Service during World War II. By the end of the 1940s the number of broadcast languages had expanded and reception had improved, following the opening of a relay in modern-day Malaysia and of the Limassol relay, Cyprus, in 1957. In recent years, financial pressures have decreased the number and type of services offered by the BBC, in countries with wide access to Internet services, there is less need for a radio station. Broadcasts in German ended in March 1999, after research showed that the majority of German listeners tuned into the English service, broadcasts in Dutch, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese and Malay were stopped for similar reasons. Additionally, Romanian broadcasts ceased on 1 August 2008, in January 2011 the closure of the Albanian, Macedonian, Portuguese for Africa, Serbian, and English for the Caribbean services was announced. The British government announced that the three Balkan countries had access to international information, and so broadcasts in the local languages had become unnecessary. 650 jobs went as part of the 16% budget cut and this led to allegations that these measures would encourage a pro-American bias within the Service and help America win the information war. The Service broadcasts from Broadcasting House in London, which is headquarters of the Corporation
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BBC News
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BBC News is an operational business division of the British Broadcasting Corporation responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs. The department is the worlds largest broadcast news organisation and generates about 120 hours of radio and television output each day, the service maintains 50 foreign news bureaux with more than 250 correspondents around the world. James Harding has been Director of News and Current Affairs since April 2013, the departments annual budget is in excess of £350 million, it has 3,500 staff,2,000 of whom are journalists. BBC News domestic, global and online news divisions are housed within the largest live newsroom in Europe, parliamentary coverage is produced and broadcast from studios in Millbank in London. Through the BBC English Regions, the BBC also has regional centres across England, as well as national news centres in Northern Ireland, Scotland, all nations and English regions produce their own local news programmes and other current affairs and sport programmes. As with all media outlets, though, it has been accused of political bias from across the political spectrum. The British Broadcasting Company broadcast its first radio bulletin from radio station 2LO on 14 November 1922, on Easter weekend in 1930, this reliance on newspaper wire services left the radio news service with no information to report. The BBC gradually gained the right to edit the copy and, in 1934, however, it could not broadcast news before 6 PM until World War II. Gaumont British and Movietone cinema newsreels had been broadcast on the TV service since 1936, a weekly Childrens Newsreel was inaugurated on 23 April 1950, to around 350,000 receivers. The network began simulcasting its radio news on television in 1946, televised bulletins began on 5 July 1954, broadcast from leased studios within Alexandra Palace in London. The publics interest in television and live events was stimulated by Elizabeth IIs coronation in 1953 and it is estimated that up to 27 million people viewed the programme in the UK, overtaking radios audience of 12 million for the first time. Those live pictures were fed from 21 cameras in central London to Alexandra Palace for transmission and that year, there were around two million TV Licences held in the UK, rising to over three million the following year, and four and a half million by 1955. This was then followed by the customary Television Newsreel with a commentary by John Snagge. It was revealed that this had been due to producers fearing a newsreader with visible facial movements would distract the viewer from the story. On-screen newsreaders were finally introduced a year later in 1955 – Kenneth Kendall, Robert Dougall, mainstream television production had started to move out of Alexandra Palace in 1950 to larger premises – mainly at Lime Grove Studios in Shepherds Bush, west London – taking Current Affairs with it. It was from here that the first Panorama, a new programme, was transmitted on 11 November 1953. On 28 October 1957, the Today programme, a radio programme, was launched in central London on the Home Service. In 1958, Hugh Carleton Greene became head of News and Current Affairs and he set up a BBC study group whose findings, published in 1959, were critical of what the television news operation had become under his predecessor, Tahu Hole
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1080i
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1080i is an abbreviation referring to a combination of frame resolution and scan type, used in high-definition television and high-definition video. The number 1080 refers to the number of lines on the screen. The term assumes a widescreen ratio of 16,9, so the 1080 lines of vertical resolution implies 1920 columns of horizontal resolution. A1920 pixels ×1080 lines screen has a total of 2.1 megapixels and this format is used in the SMPTE 292M standard. The choice of 1080 lines originates with Charles Poynton, who in the early 1990s pushed for square pixels to be used in HD video formats, within the designation 1080i, the i stands for interlaced scan. A frame of 1080i video consists of two fields of 1920 horizontal and 540 vertical pixels. The first field consists of all odd-numbered TV lines and the second all even numbered lines, 1080i differs from 1080p, where the p stands for progressive scan, where all lines in a frame are captured at the same time. In native or pure 1080i, the two fields of a frame correspond to different instants, so motion portrayal is good and this is true for interlaced video in general and can be easily observed in still images taken of fast motion scenes. However, when 1080p material is captured at 25 or 30 frames/second, it is converted to 1080i at 50 or 60 fields/second, respectively, in this situation both fields in a frame do correspond to the same instant. The field-to-instant relation is more complex for the case of 1080p at 24 frames/second converted to 1080i at 60 fields/second. Both field rates can be carried by digital television broadcast formats such as ATSC, DVB. The frame rate can be implied by the context, while the rate is generally specified after the letter i. In this case 1080i60 refers to 60 fields per second, the European Broadcasting Union prefers to use the resolution and frame rate separated by a slash, as in 1080i/30 and 1080i/25, likewise 480i/30 and 576i/25. Resolutions of 1080i60 or 1080i50 often refers to 1080i/30 or 1080i/25 in EBU notation, 1080i is directly compatible with some CRT HDTVs on which it can be displayed natively in interlaced form, but for display on progressive-scan—e. g. Most new LCD and plasma TVs, it must be deinterlaced, depending on the televisions video processing capabilities, the resulting video quality may vary, but may not necessarily suffer. For example, film material at 25fps may be deinterlaced from 1080i50 to restore a full 1080p resolution at the frame rate without any loss. Preferably video material with 50 or 60 motion phases/second is to be converted to 50p or 60p before display, worldwide, most HD channels on satellite and cable broadcast in 1080i. This also allows local newscasts on these ABC affiliates to be produced in the resolution to match the picture quality of their 1080i competitors
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576i
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576i is a standard-definition video mode originally used for broadcast television in most countries of the world where the utility frequency for electric power distribution is 50 Hz. Because of its association with the colour encoding system, it is often referred to as simply PAL, PAL/SECAM or SECAM when compared to its 60 Hz NTSC-colour-encoded counterpart. The 576 identifies a vertical resolution of 576 lines, and the i identifies it as an interlaced resolution and its basic parameters common to both analogue and digital implementations are,576 scan lines or vertical pixels of picture content,25 frames per second. Digital information not to be displayed as part of the image can be transmitted in the lines, teletext and other services. Analogue television signals have no pixels, they are rastered in scan lines, in digital applications, the number of pixels per line is an arbitrary choice as long as it fulfils the sampling theorem. Values above about 500 pixels per line are enough for conventional broadcast television, DVB-T, DVD and DV allow better values such as 704 or 720. The video format can be transported by major digital television formats, ATSC, DVB and ISDB, and on DVD, when 576i video is transmitted via baseband, most of the differences between the one-letter systems are no longer significant, other than vertical resolution and frame rate. Digital video uses its own separate space, so even the minor colour space differences between PAL and SECAM become moot in the digital domain. When 576i is used to transmit content that was composed of 25 full progressive frames per second. This is the opposite of NTSC, motion pictures are typically shot on film at 24 frames per second. When telecined and played back at PALs standard of 25 frames per second and this also applies to most TV series that are shot on film or digital 24p. Depending on the system in use, it also slightly increases the pitch of the soundtrack by 70.67 cents. More recently, digital conversion methods have used algorithms which preserve the pitch of the soundtrack. Conversion methods exist that can convert 24 frames per second video to 25 frames per second with no speed increase, however image quality suffers when conversions of this type are used. This method is most commonly employed through conversions done digitally, and is employed in situations where the importance of preserving the speed of the video outweighs the need for image quality. Many movie enthusiasts prefer PAL over NTSC despite the formers speed-up, because the results in telecine judder. States the majority of authorities on the subject favour PAL over NTSC for DVD playback quality, also DVD reviewers often make mention of this cause. For example, in his PAL vs. NTSC article, the founder of MichaelDVD says, Personally, I find all but intolerable and find it very hard to watch a movie on an NTSC DVD because of it
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Television Centre, London
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Television Centre in White City, West London was the headquarters of BBC Television between 1960 and 2013. Officially opened on 29 June 1960, it is one of the most readily recognisable facilities of its type, parts of the building are Grade II listed, including the central ring and Studio 1. Live television events from studios and routing of national and international sporting events took place within the Television Centre before being passed to the Broadcast Centre for transmission and it was announced on 21 September 2010 that the BBC would cease broadcasting from Television Centre in 2013. BBC Worldwide moved into space in the Stage 6 building following extensive refurbishment in 2015. The radio and television news departments moved to Broadcasting House in central London, the building is 4 miles west of central London, in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham. The nearest Underground stations are White City and Wood Lane, London broadcasts at the time came from Alexandra Palace and Lime Grove Studios. It was to be the largest television centre in the world, riverside Studios in Hammersmith were used from 1954. It was planned to be 6 acres, but turned out to be twice as big, on 24 August 1956 the main contract was awarded to Higgs and Hill, which also built The London Studios for ITV in 1972. The building was planned to cost £9M, when it opened, the Director of BBC television was Gerald Beadle, and the first programme broadcast was First Night with David Nixon in Studio Three. In 1997 the BBC News Centre was opened, in a new complex at the front of the building, the building featured a central circular block around which were studios, offices, engineering areas and the News Centre. In the centre of the block was a statue designed by T. B. Huxley-Jones of Helios. At the foot of the statue were two reclining figures, symbolising sound and vision, the components of television, even though there was a foundation stone marked BBC1956 in the basement of the main building, construction began in 1951. With the migration of staff and functions to complexes in Salford and London W1, the overall design from the air appeared to resemble a question mark in shape. The architect, Graham Dawbarn CBE, drew a question mark on an envelope while thinking about the design of the building, an article in The BBC Quarterly, July 1946, proposed a circular design, several years before Dawbarn drew up his plans. The building was commissioned in 1949 with work starting in 1950, work resumed in 1953 on the TVC scenery block and work began in 1954 on the canteen block, which doubled as a rehearsal space. Work on Stage 3, the central office block and studios. The shells of TC1, TC6 and TC7 were constructed around the same time, BBC Television Centre officially opened with TC3 operational on 29 June 1960. Arthur Hayes worked on the building from 1956 to 1970 and was responsible for the creation of the iconic BBC Television Centre lettering on the façade of Studio 1, the lettering was later used all over the building, even in tile work outside lift entrances
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Broadcasting House
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Broadcasting House is the headquarters of the BBC, in Portland Place and Langham Place, London. The first radio broadcast was made on 15 March 1932, the main building is in Art Deco style, with a facing of Portland stone over a steel frame. As part of a consolidation of the BBCs property portfolio in London. This involved the demolition of post-war extensions on the side of the building. The wing was named the John Peel Wing in 2012, after the disc jockey, BBC London, BBC Arabic Television and BBC Persian Television are housed in the new wing, which also contains the reception area for BBC Radio 1 and BBC Radio 1Xtra. The main building was refurbished, and a built to the rear. The radio stations BBC Radio 3, BBC Radio 4, BBC Radio 4 Extra and the BBC World Service transferred to refurbished studios within the building. The extension links the old building with the John Peel Wing, the move of news operations from BBC Television Centre completed in March 2013. Construction of Broadcasting House began in 1928, programmes transferred gradually to the building. On 15 March 1932 the first musical programme was given by the bandleader Henry Hall, Hall also wrote and performed, with his Dance Band, Radio Times, the name of the BBCs schedule publication. The first news bulletin was read by Stuart Hibberd on 18 March, the last transmission from Savoy Hill was on 14 May, and Broadcasting House officially opened on 15 May 1932. George Val Myer designed the building in collaboration with the BBCs civil engineer, the interiors were the work of Raymond McGrath, an Australian-Irish architect. The building is built in two parts, dispensing with the oft-found central light-well of contemporary buildings this size, the central core containing the recording studios was a windowless structure built of brick. The surrounding outer portion, designed for offices and ancillary spaces, is framed and faced using Portland stone. While the outer portion had plenty of windows, the core required special sound-dampened ventilation systems. There were two areas where right of ancient lights would cause height restrictions, Underground structures, including a hundred-year-old sewer, also presented problems during construction. The building is above the Bakerloo line of the London Underground, the Victoria line was tunnelled beneath in the 1960s, noise from passing trains is audible within the radio theatre, but generally imperceptible in recordings. The ground floor was fitted with floor-to-ceiling windows overlooking the street, the rapid expansion of the BBC meant this never occurred
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BBC World Service Television
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BBC World Service Television, often abbreviated to WSTV, was the name of two BBC international satellite television channels between 1991 and 1995. It was the BBCs first foray into television broadcasting. In Europe, it was the successor to BBC TV Europe, the service was also launched in Asia as a 24-hour news and information service with minor differences, a precursor to BBC World News, launched on 14 October 1991. Unlike BBC World Service at the time, it was not funded by the British government with a grant-in-aid, instead, it was funded by commercial advertising, with commercials were inserted locally by the cable or satellite providers. In the years followed, the BBC would insert news headlines and other updates to fill the gaps. In Europe, BBC WSTV replaced BBC TV Europe on 11 March 1991 as the BBCs subscription-funded entertainment service, like BBC TV Europe, it was a mix of BBC1 and BBC2, but showed specially commissioned World Service News bulletins from Television Centre. The BBC World Service News studio looked like the BBCs domestic news, though with different graphics, the station also broadcast its own Childrens BBC junctions from Presentation Studio A. Competing against CNN International, it showed current affairs and documentary programming from BBC One and BBC Two, BBC World Service Television programming was also carried in Africa on M-Net launched on 15 April 1992 for 11 hours a day. In Canada, its bulletins were carried on CBC Newsworld several times a day, the channel from 1991 until c.1994 used the presentation device of a rotating world, the Computer Originated World, which had previously been used on BBC One between 1985 and 1991. The world symbol remained the same, but the legend at the bottom was altered to a BBC logo with an italic World Service beneath. Promotional style and static programme captions mirrored that of BBC1 and 2 at the time and featured the symbol above a small BBC logo in the top left corner of promotions. The sidebar of captions featured a vague wispy line style, similar to that used by WSTV bulletins, the channel also used a break bumper featuring the globe, and a promo bumper featuring the COW globe split into lines to the side and bottom. Around the time of the relaunch, BBC WSTV adopted a variation of the look later to be used by BBC World. The channel had a permanent DOG of the BBC logo in the top corner of the screen
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CBeebies
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The name is used to brand the free-to-air domestic British channel, and is used for international variants supported by advertising, subscription or both. The channel was first launched on 11 February 2002, the channel has won a number of awards. At the BAFTA Childrens Awards, it won awards in 2002 and it has also won Best Schools Programme – 0–6 years awards from the Royal Television Society from 2002 to 2008. CBeebies is the childrens channel in the UK and is the 8th most watched channel overall. CBeebies HD officially launched on 10 December 2013, the CBeebies channel launched on 11 February 2002. The domestic CBeebies channel broadcasts from 6,00 a. m. to 7,00 pm each day– a result of the channel sharing bandwidth with the channel BBC Four on the Freeview platform, later on they launched a weekly publication called CBeebies Weekly. Since 27 March 2013, CBeebies has been carried by the British Forces Broadcasting Service, the international CBeebies channel is advert-free and wholly owned by BBC Worldwide. The first international launch for the CBeebies channel was in India in May 2007, the channel is available in the Republic of Ireland, Singapore, Hong Kong, Poland, Indonesia, Mexico, Colombia, Argentina, Africa, Australia, and the United States. In March 2011, the on demand version of the network was launched in the US and is available on Xfinity. On 13 May 2011, CBeebies was launched as a block on the channel BBC Kids in Canada. It is serving a similar schedule to the main channel, in the UK, CBeebies is operated by the BBC Childrens division and part of BBC North. The division is responsible for CBBC and overall strategic responsibility for all of the BBCs domestic services for children rests with the Director of Childrens. She took over from the first controller Michael Carrington in 2010, internationally, CBeebies is owned by BBC Worldwide, who operate the brand. CBeebies offers a mix of mostly UK-produced entertainment and educational output designed to encourage learning through play and these goals are realised through a range of programmes about simple science, natural history, music and movement, storytelling, make up and make do, puzzle programmes and animation. The channels schedule is deliberately the same every weekday, with a different schedule at weekends, the schedule also includes signed programmes, shown in the UK between 14,00 and 17,00 on weekends. The international channels also show many programmes broadcast on the UK channel, inversely however, shows that air on CBeebies in the UK may air on networks other than CBeebies worldwide. Also, the international CBeebies airs 24 hours a day, unlike the UK variant, the following is a list of the ten most watched shows on CBeebies, based on Live +7 data supplied by the Broadcasters Audience Research Board. The links between programmes on CBeebies are primarily achieved through the use of in-vision continuity, using presenters to interact with the children, in the UK, links are pre-recorded rather than broadcast live, as is the case on sister channel CBBC
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CBBC (TV channel)
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CBBC is a British free-to-air childrens television channel operated by the BBC. CBBC is primarily aimed at viewers 6 to 12 years old, CBBC was named Channel of the Year at the Childrens BAFTA awards in November 2008 and 2015. The channel averages 300,000 viewers daily, the channel originally shared bandwidth on the digital terrestrial television platform with BBC Knowledge, and later BBC Three, necessitating that CBBC sign off at 7,00 p. m. daily. Beginning on 11 April 2016, following the closure of the linear BBC Three television service, on 22 August 2008, the BBC announced that the channel would be available live on its website from 16 September. CBBCs reach further expanded with the addition of the channel on the Sky line-up in the Republic of Ireland on 12 May 2011, since 27 March 2013, CBBC has been carried by the British Forces Broadcasting Service, sharing a channel with BBC Two. Along with CBBC, the CBBC channel is operated by the BBC Childrens department within the BBC and is part of the BBC North group, the CBBC channels programming output is very similar to the strand shown on BBC One. The channel often complements this strand with programmes shown earlier than on the channels, repeats or whole series shown in a day. The following is a list of the ten most watched shows on CBBC, as part of the channels original remit, the channel originally needed to show 100 hours a year of factual and schools programmes. Much of this programming was old BBC Schools programming shown, in cases, decades before. Very little new schools programmes were commissioned, the CBBC channel has had relatively similar presentation to that of its strand counterpart. The logo has remained the same as the service, green coloured blobs at the beginning of its life. At the beginning of September 2007, along with the relaunch, when the channel launched, presentation was located in TC2 at BBC Television Centre, where the channel shared studio facilities with the channels original magazine show Xchange. A further change was to place on 4 December 2006 when all output moved to a Chroma key set within TC12. This short live decision lasted until the 2007 relaunch, which involved a new office set being constructed, initially in TC12, in 2011, the CBBC Channel moved to MediaCityUK, and has been presented from there since 5 September. On 16 July 2013, the BBC announced that a high-definition simulcast of CBBC would be launched by early 2014, the channel launched on 10 December 2013. The channel broadcasts on the BBCs existing HD multiplex on Freeview, prior to launch, the majority of CBBCs HD output was broadcast on BBC HD before its closure on 26 March 2013. The HD channel was not added to the Sky EPG in the Republic of Ireland, as from 2013, CBBC Extra is now also accessed by the CBBC website. CBBC Extra is an interactive television service from CBBC provided by the BBC Red Button
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BBC America
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BBC America is a digital cable and satellite television network in the United States which is jointly owned by BBC Worldwide and AMC Networks. Consequently, BBC America operates as a channel and accepts traditional advertising. It is also funded by cable and satellite TV subscription fees, as of February 2015, BBC America is available to approximately 78,375,000 television households in the United States. BBC America was launched on March 29,1998, presenting a mixture of comedy, drama and lifestyle programs from BBC Television and other British television broadcasters including ITV and Channel 4. In the channels early days, it focused on repeats of popular shows such as Changing Rooms. BBC Americas head of television programming later stated that it was important for the channel to establish a niche since non-UK viewers found the shows appealing. Most of the newer programs appeared as part of BBC Americas evening schedule, after CEO Paul Lee was appointed president of ABC Family in 2009, the network appointed Bill Hilary from Comedy Central to serve as its chief executive officer. Hilary appointed Kathryn Mitchell to the new position of general manager, under Hilarys tenure, BBC America was restructured, it moved its main offices to New York City and had its programming budget increase substantially. The channel was led by Garth Ancier, who served as the president of BBC Worldwide Americas from February 2007 until 2010, meanwhile, Perry Simon serves as general manager. In 2014, AMC Networks acquired a 49. 9% equity stake in BBC America for $200 million, as part of the deal, AMC Networks also took on the responsibility of negotiating U. S. broadcast and advertising sales for the BBC World News channel. Some of the programs on the channel are edited either for adult content or to allow for commercials, additional series which have been previously broadcast may periodically return to the schedule as part of the networks rotation of daytime programming. In the mid-2000s, BBC America produced a few of its own shows along with some joint productions, the first original series produced solely by the channel was Copper, which premiered in the summer of 2012. BBC America has also branched into co-producing British series, including Robin Hood, The Musketeers, and, from its fourth series and they also co-produce the Canadian series Orphan Black. BBC America used to broadcast BBC World News each Monday through Friday morning from 6,00 to 8,00 a. m, all news programs now air exclusively on the BBC World News channel, also distributed by AMC Networks in the United States. The weekday morning simulcast used to include BBC World News bulletins, World Business Report, Sport Today, Asia Today, most of these were removed from the schedule without any announcement on April 6,2009. The weekend morning simulcast was also dropped on April 4,2009. According to BBC America, the simulcast was dropped because of disappointing ratings, from 2007 to 2011, BBC America broadcast BBC World News America, a live Washington, D. C. –based program anchored by Matt Frei. Katty Kay served as a Washington-based correspondent, an international edition of Newsnight debuted on February 29,2008, in the 10 p. m. time slot
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BBC Arabic Television
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BBC Arabic Television is a television news channel broadcast to the Middle East by the BBC. It was launched at 0956 GMT &1256 Moscow Standard Time on 11 March 2008 and it is run by the BBC World Service and funded from the British television licence fee. In 1994, BBC Arabic Television was launched by Rome-based Orbit Communications Company, on 21 April 1996, it was pulled off the air following an episode of Panorama that was critical of the Saudi Arabian government. Ian Richardson, who set up the department during that time blamed the short life of the channel on a clash with the owners over content. Many of the staff who worked for the original BBC Arabic Television service went on to work for Al Jazeera television, plans to relaunch the channel were announced in October 2005 and broadcasting was to start in Autumn 2007, but was delayed until 0956 GMT on 11 March 2008. Tony Khouri, Malak Jaafar BBC Arabic Television is run by the BBC World Service, the service is based in the Peel Wing of Broadcasting House in London. 24-hour programming began 19 January 2009, BBC Arabic can also be seen via bbc. co. uk/Arabic/. The website includes a 16,9 live stream of the channel, newshour, an hour-long news bulletin is broadcast twice a day. In this programme, the top stories of the day are analysed and covered by BBC correspondents around the world, the top stories are broadcast on the channel every fifteen minutes
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BBC Brit
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BBC Brit is an entertainment subscription television channel featuring factual entertainment programming. The channel is owned and operated by BBC Worldwide. Originally set to rollout internationally in 2014, it was announced it would launch in 2015. In October 2013, BBC announced that in 2014 they would roll out 3 new brands - BBC Earth, BBC First, and BBC Brit, with BBC Brit to be dedicated to entertainment programming. It was later announced that the content would largely be factual entertainment, other series are to include Room 101 and Mock the Week. It was also announced that roughly 50 hours, or roughly 5 series, BBC Brit premiered in Poland on 1 February 2015, replacing BBC Entertainment. BBC Brit replaced BBC Entertainment in Denmark, Norway, Sweden, the channel launched on DStv in Africa replacing BBC Entertainment on 1 September 2015. The channels content is offered exclusively on BBC Player Singapore
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BBC Canada
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BBC Canada is a Canadian Category B specialty channel that mostly broadcasts television series originally produced by or for the BBC, the public-service broadcaster of the United Kingdom. The channel is owned by Corus Entertainment, with a minority stake held by BBC Worldwide, Alliance Atlantis was granted a broadcast licence for a Category 2 speciality service covering entertainment, drama and documentary programming. BBC Canada, by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission in November 2000, the channel was launched on September 7,2001 as a joint venture between AAC and BBC Worldwide. To promote the launch of BBC Canadas 2007 fall season, a 16-page British-style tabloid insert called the BBC Telly was published in the Toronto Star, toronto-based Pilot PMR created the campaign. On January 18,2008, a joint venture between Canwest and Goldman Sachs Capital Partners known as CW Media bought Alliance Atlantis and gained AACs interest in BBC Canada. On October 27,2010, the ownership changed once again as Shaw Communications gained control of BBC Canada as a result of its acquisition of Canwest. On May 13,2011, BBC Canada was separated from BBC Kids due to its ownership changing hands to Knowledge Network, while BBC Canada is part-owned by the BBC, not all of the BBCs programs air on BBC Canada. This means that much of the BBCs output airs on other Canadian channels which have either co-produced the programs or simply bid more for the Canadian broadcast rights. Despite its British focus, BBC Canada is licensed as a Canadian channel and is not exempt from the CRTCs broadcasting regulations that require it to carry a quota of Canadian content, Canadian programs currently airing on the channel include repeats of Disaster DIY and Holmes Inspection. Many of the programs, whether British, American or Canadian, are shared with other Corus Entertainment channels such as the Global Television Network, Showcase, HGTV. In October 2016, Corus launched BBC Canada HD, a 1080i high definition simulcast of the standard definition feed, the HD feed is currently available on Optik TV
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BBC Earth (TV channel)
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BBC Earth is a documentary subscription television channel featuring premium factual programming. The channel is owned and operated by BBC Worldwide. Originally set to rollout internationally in 2014, it was announced it would launch in 2015. In October 2013, the BBC announced that in 2014 it would rollout 3 new brands - BBC Earth, BBC First and it was later announced that the channel would air series such as Frozen Planet and Wonders of the Universe. In addition, roughly 30 hours of new content would be ordered for the channel in its first year, the channel is set to replace BBC Knowledge, however, if the existing channel is successful in certain markets it may remain. BBC Earth premiered in Poland on 1 February 2015, replacing BBC Knowledge, BBC Earth replaced BBC Knowledge in Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland and Iceland on 13 April 2015. BBC Earth replaced BBC Knowledge on 14 April 2015, on 14 April 2015, BBC Earth launched in Romania, replacing BBC Knowledge. BBC Earth premiered in Eastern European countries on 1 January 2016, BBC Earth launched in Turkey, replacing BBC Knowledge, on 14 April 2015. The channel launched in Africa replacing BBC Knowledge on 1 September 2015, in Asia, BBC Earth launched in Cambodia, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia, Mongolia, Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam on 3 October 2015, replacing BBC Knowledge. BBC have entered into a joint venture with Multi Screen Media to launch the channel in India and it was launched on 6 March 2017, following regulatory approval of the joint venture. Kareena Kapoor is the ambassador for this channel, on December 6,2016, BBC Worldwide and Canadian media company Blue Ant Media announced plans to launch a Canadian version of BBC Earth. The channel launched on January 24,2017 and on February 18,2017 will host the Canadian premiere of Planet Earth II, on the date as the United States. BBC Earth replaced Blue Ant Medias radX, there are BBC Earth programming blocks on the following channels, ProSieben Maxx. WOWOW BBC Earth Official Website BBC Earth at Blue Ant Media
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BBC Entertainment
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BBC Entertainment is an international television channel broadcasting comedy, drama, light entertainment, reality and childrens programming from the BBC, Channel 4 and other UK production houses. The channel broadcasts regional versions to suit local demands and replaces BBC Prime and it is wholly owned by BBC Worldwide. The channel was launched in October 2006, replacing BBC Prime in Asian markets such as Singapore, Hong Kong, Thailand, on 28 December 2006, it was launched on the Astro platform in Malaysia. The channel was launched in Poland, on Cyfrowy Polsat, in December 2007 and it was launched together with its sister channels in the Nordic countries in November 2008, when it replaced BBC Prime on Canal Digital, Com Hem, Telia Digital-TV and FastTV. The Nordic countries get a feed of the channel which differs from that in the rest of Europe. It was also launched in Mexico on the SKY México digital satellite platform in August 2008 in a deal with Televisa, the channel replaced BBC Prime in Europe and the Middle East & North Africa in November 2009. In Belgium, the Netherlands and Switzerland, BBC Entertainment is carried alongside BBC One and BBC Two, on the Telenet, Ziggo, on 1 December 2009, Astro dropped the channel and replaced it with ITV Granada. On 1 March 2010 in Italy Sky Italia also dropped the channel, in 2010 Kabel Deutschland made it a pay-TV channel. RCS&RDS launched the channel in Romania in November 2012, in August 2012, UniFi picked up the channel, thus making the channel available in Malaysia once more after a 3-year hiatus. However UniFi dropped the channel in December 2015
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BBC First
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BBC First is an entertainment subscription television channel featuring comedy and drama programming. The channel is owned and operated by BBC Worldwide. The channel began rolling out internationally in 2014, launching first in Australia, in October 2013, BBC announced that in 2014 they would rollout 3 new brands - BBC Earth, BBC First, and BBC Brit, with BBC First to be dedicated to comedy and drama programming. It was later announced the new channel would be named BBC First, BBC First launched in the Netherlands on 16 May 2015, initially exclusively on the KPN IPTV service on channel 23. The programme mix will be specifically for the Netherlands with more emphasis placed on drama, all programming is subtitled in Dutch. KPN simultaneously withdrew BBC Three and BBC Four, the channel launched in Belgium on 4 June 2015. The channel launched in South Africa on 18 October 2015, on the 7th of January 2016, BBC Worldwide and OSN have announced that they had forged a new and exclusive deal which would see the launch of BBC First HD on the first of February 2016. The new channel would broadcast to Middle East & North Africa and would feature comedy and drama content, BBC First launched a Subscription Video-On-Demand service on StarHub TV Channel 522 on 4 April 2016. BBC First was launched as a Subscription Video-On-Demand service on HyppTV Channel 812 on October 1,2016,10 months after BBC Entertainment was dropped from the provider, the channels content is also available in the VOD tab in the HyppTV Everywhere app for iOS and Android. On 1 November 2016, BBC First launched as a Subscription Video-On-Demand service in Hong Kong, the channel replaced BBC On Demand and BBC Entertainment on Now TV. On 14 November 2016, the service was launched on myTV Super OTT platform, there are BBC First programming blocks on the following channels, AXN Mystery. Banished Not all content are available in all territories
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BBC HD (international)
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BBC HD is an international high-definition television channel provided by BBC Worldwide and launched in September 2006. In Australia, an Australian version of BBC HD was broadcast on the Foxtel HD+ service which was available to subscribers on 2 June 2008 and was officially launched at the end of June 2008. On 15 November 2009 it was replaced on Foxtel HD+ by UKTV HD, during the first broadcast of BBC World News America, it was announced that BBC America HD would be launched in 2008. However, the HD version did not begin broadcasting until 20 July 2009, BBC HD started broadcasting to the Scandinavian countries in 2008. A localised Latin American feed started in 2011, in 2012 a Brazilian feed was created, though later that year, the Brazilian feed merged with that for the rest of the region, with separate audio and subtitle channels. BBC HD BBC HD Nordics BBC HD International
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BBC Kids
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It operates as a commercial-free channel that airs programming aimed at youth ranging from preschoolers to teenagers. It will feature programming primarily from the UK and around the world, 65% of the programming will target children ages 2 to 11, the majority of which will target 6 to 11 years old and 35% will target youth ages 12 to 17. The channel was launched on November 5,2001 as a joint venture between AAC and BBC Worldwide, Bean, The Animated Series and The Sleepover Club. In addition to British programs, the channel also broadcast Canadian programs, on October 27,2010, the channels ownership changed once again as Shaw Communications gained control of BBC Kids as a result of its acquisition of Canwest and Goldman Sachs interest in CW Media. It was revealed through regulatory documents on December 22,2010 that Shaw Media was in the process of selling the channel to a third party. The transaction required CRTC approval, which was granted on April 29,2011, on May 1,2016, BBC Kids updated its logo to reflect its 15th anniversary and to coincide with its new rebranding. BBC Kids broadcasts educational and entertainment programs from the BBC and Canadian series aimed at children ranging in age from 2 to 17 years in the form of live-action and animated programs. Emma Hank Zipzer Horrible Histories Horrible Science The Jungle Bunch Lark Rise to Candleford Lilly Lockie Leonard Marco Polo Minuscule Molang Mona the Vampire Moone Boy Monk Mr. Bean Mr. I. A, S Club 7 in Hollywood The Secret Show Silverwing The Sorcerers Apprentice Surprise. The Teletubbies Theodore Tugboat Thomas and Friends Trapped, tree Fu Tom Tweenies Walk on the Wild Side Weakest Link What About Mimi. Who Let the Dogs Out. m. to 3,30 p. m. Cartoon Afternoons - Cartoon Afternoons is a programming block dedicated to animated television series that airs weekdays from 3,30 -7,00 p. m. Eastern Time. Drama at 8 - Drama at 8 is a primetime block featuring various British dramas, such as Emma and it airs every weeknight at 8,00 p. m. Eastern Time. m. to 6,00 a. m. The Spot - Until May 12,2011, BBC Kids aired a block called The Spot, the Spot focused on programming aimed at grade school and pre-teen audiences. Jamaica - distributed on Flow Cable systems, the Bahamas - distributed on Cable Bahamas systems
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BBC Knowledge (international)
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On 15 November 2009, BBC Knowledge in Australia changed their channel location from Channel 619 to Channel 612. In 2014 it was announced that BBC Worldwide would rollout a new channel, BBC Earth, Poland was the first location to launch the new brand on 1 February 2015. BBC Knowledge was first launched in Singapore on mio TV in July 2007 and it has been available on now TV in Hong Kong since October 2007 and on the Cyfrowy Polsat digital satellite platform in Poland from December 2007. BBC Knowledge launched in Indonesia on Indovision in April 2008, and it has since also launched in the Scandinavian countries in November 2008 when it replaced BBC Prime on Canal Digital and several cable systems. It was launched in Australia on Foxtel and Optus Television on 1 November 2008, in South Korea on CJ HelloVision on 1 December 2008, BBC Knowledge was launched on Cable TV Hong Kong on 29 October 2009. The channel was launched in New Zealand in March 2011 replacing the Documentary Channel following that sale to BBC Worldwide. From 1 March 2011 the channel is broadcast in Italy too and its visible, in standard definition until 1 March 2016. On 13 August 2013 the channel launched on Digiturk in Turkey, on 1 February 2015, BBC Knowledge launched on Australian IPTV service Fetch TV
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BBC Lifestyle
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BBC Lifestyle is an international television channel. The channel provides six programming strands, Food, Home & Design, Fashion & Style, Health, Parenting, BBC Lifestyle first launched in Singapore on mio TV in July 2007. It is also available in Hong Kong on now TV, in Poland on the Cyfrowy Polsat digital satellite platform, on DStv in South Africa and on OSN in the Middle East & North Africa since September 2008. It has since launched in the Scandinavian countries in November 2008 when it replaced BBC Prime on Canal Digital, Com Hem
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BBC UKTV
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BBC UKTV is a subscription television channel in Australia and New Zealand, screening British entertainment programming, sourced mainly from the archives of the BBC, RTL Group and ITV plc. The channel was originally a joint venture with Foxtel, the RTL Group and it is now owned solely by BBC Worldwide. It is the home of the flagship programme The Graham Norton Show. The channel was first launched in Australia in August 1996, becoming available on Austar in April 1999, a New Zealand version with different programming launched on Sky TV, in November 2003. It shows a mix of repeats of old UK shows previously screened in Australia or New Zealand, repeated series include Doctor Who, Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, Are You Being Served. Dads Army, Torchwood, Torchwood Declassified, The Jewel in the Crown, Never the Twain, The Sweeney, and The Bill that have already been seen on free-to-air terrestrial television in Australia. New series include Shameless, new episodes of soap operas Coronation Street and EastEnders. UK soap opera Family Affairs, which has never been screened on free-to-air Australian television, in July 2006 UKTV began screening 2006 episodes of UK soap opera Emmerdale which had never before been screened in Australia. UKTVs episodes of EastEnders are around four weeks behind the United Kingdom, hollyoaks is sixteen weeks behind the UK episodes. By comparison Emmerdale is more than twenty three months behind the original UK broadcasts, in addition to British programming UKTV has repeated Australian soap operas Sons and Daughters and Prisoner which were both produced by the Reg Grundy Organisation. It also screened the TVNZ soap opera Shortland Street for several years in the 1990s, in Australia, UKTV, like all pay TV drama channels, is legally required to spend 10 per cent of its total program expenditure on funding new eligible drama programs. Such productions include Changi, Supernova, Make or Break and False Witness, UKTV has separate services in Australia and New Zealand, partly to reflect different local tastes, but also for rights reasons, as many programmes are shown on free-to-air channels in New Zealand. For example, Coronation Street has been shown on TVNZ1 for many years, while until May 2009, EastEnders was shown on Prime, on 1 July 2008 BBC Worldwide assumed full control of UKTV. BBC Worldwide previously had a 20 per cent stake in UKTV in a three way partnership with Foxtel and Fremantle Media, BBC Worldwide launched two new Australian channels, BBC Knowledge and CBeebies on 1 November 2008. On 3 October 2009 UKTV revealed a new logo, displaying that of the BBC, on 15 November 2009 the channel launched an HD simulcast, replacing BBC HD. In April 2013, the changed its logo and name to BBC UKTV. On 1 July 2014, the HD simulcast closed, making the channel available in standard definition. This came prior to the launch of BBC First, which would use the HD feed formerly used by BBC UKTV, in addition, BBC UKTV changed subscription packages on Foxtel - moving from the Drama & Lifestyle add-on package to the basic Essential package increasing its reach
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BBC News (TV channel)
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BBC News is the BBCs 24-hour rolling news television network in the United Kingdom. For a time, looped news, sport and weather bulletins were available to view via BBC Red Button, on 22 February 2006, the channel was named News Channel of the Year at the Royal Television Society Television Journalism Awards for the first time in its history. The judges remarked that this was the year that the channel had really come into its own, from May 2007, UK viewers could watch the channel via the BBC News website. In April 2008, the channel was renamed BBC News as part of a £550,000 rebranding of the BBCs news output, complete with a new studio and presentation. Its sister service, BBC World was also renamed BBC World News while the news bulletins became BBC News at One, BBC News at Six. Across the day the channel averages about twice the audience of Sky News, as a major part of the BBC News department, the channel is based at and broadcast from Broadcasting House in Central London. It was named RTS News Channel of the Year again in 2017, BBC News 24 was originally available to digital terrestrial, satellite and cable television subscribers. To this day, it and BBC Parliament remain the only BBC digital channels which are available to analogue cable subscribers. This coverage was improved in 1998 with the advent of television in the United Kingdom allowing satellite. The BBC had run the news channel BBC World for two and a half years prior to the launch of BBC News 24 on 9 November 1997. Sky News had had a hand with domestic news for over eight years. Sky News objected to the breaking of its monopoly, complaining about the associated with running a channel that only a minority could view from the licence fee. Sky News claimed that a number of British cable operators had been incentivised to carry News 24 in preference to the commercial Sky News. However, in September 1999 the European Commission ruled against a complaint made by Sky News that the publicly funded channel was unfair and illegal under EU law. The Commission ruled that the fee should be considered state aid but that such aid was justified due to the public service remit of the BBC. The channels journalistic output has been overseen by Controller of the channel, Kevin Bakhurst and this was a return to having a dedicated Controller for the channel in the same way as the rest of the BBCs domestic television channels. At launch, Tim Orchard was Controller of News 24 from 1997 until 2000, editorial decisions were then overseen by Rachel Atwell in her capacity as Deputy Head of television news. Her deputy Mark Popescu became responsible for content in 2004
