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Motto — The coat of arms features the BBC motto, "Nation shall speak peace unto Nation" Shield. Globe — the globe in the shield of the coat of arms represents the scope and breadth of the BBC's operations; Estoiles — Around the globe are seven estoiles, heraldic symbols for divine goodness and nobility. Their place in the shield increase ...
The logo was soft launched by the BBC Select streaming service in North America and BBC Kids channel in Australia. Eventually, the Reith blocks were officially adopted by most of the BBC's domestic television services on 20 October 2021, as part of a major corporate rebranding designed to create a more cohesive and consistent identity between ...
Off-air screen capture of BBC Test Card F, as seen on BBC1 between 17 February 1991 and 4 October 1997. Test Card F is a test card that was created by the BBC and used on television in the United Kingdom and in countries elsewhere in the world for more than four decades.
The BBC Heritage Collection is the newest of the BBC Archives and holds historic broadcast technology, art, props and merchandise. [40] The collection was created out of personal collections and bequeaths by former staff members, as the BBC had no formal policy on the heritage collection until c.2003.
BBC Two Wales also broadcast "Powder" during the 50th Anniversary of BBC Wales. As of August 2014, some of the set have come back semi-permanently for the 50th Birthday of the channel in all regions. On 1 January 2015, BBC Two was rebranded with the 1990s idents returning as the only idents in use after a short break during the Christmas season.
The BBC Motion Gallery collection includes over 125,000 creative, editorial and archival clips, along with millions of hours of offline content. The premium content spans a wide range of subjects including news, sport, natural history, wildlife, locations, celebrities, history, culture, science and stock.
The 3rd century Christian martyr Saint Sebastian is one of the earliest known gay icons, [3] due to his depiction in artwork as a beautiful, agonised young man. [4] Historian Richard A. Kaye states that "Contemporary gay men have seen in Sebastian at once a stunning advertisement for homosexual desire (indeed, a homoerotic ideal), and a prototypical portrait of a tortured closet case."
BBC Four is the first channel to use the new corporate font of the BBC, which is the BBC Reith. [18] The DOG for the channel remained the same in the 4:3 screen size safe zone; [5] this was only changed in 2011 when it was switched to widescreen 16:9. As of 2021, these idents have had the longest lifespan of any on a BBC channel.