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BBC Two is a British free-to-air public broadcast television channel owned and operated by the BBC.It is the corporation's second flagship channel, and it covers a wide range of subject matter, incorporating genres such as comedy, drama and documentaries.
Wimbledon Championships: BBC TV/BBC One 1937 – present, BBC Two 1964 – present; The Boat Race: BBC TV/One 1938 – 2004 & 2010 – present (ITV covered the Boat Race from 2005 – 2009) Live England Test Cricket: BBC TV 1938 – 1998; Rugby League Challenge Cup: BBC One & Two 1948 – present; Summer & Winter Olympic Games: BBC One & Two ...
Commercially funded BBC Studios and BBC Global News, as well as state-funded BBC World Service operate and distribute these linear television services around the world. These services are not to be confused with the domestic channels operated in the United Kingdom and accessible in the Republic of Ireland.
4 January – Test transmissions begin for BBC2. [3]20 April – BBC2 starts broadcasting at 7:20pm, however, a power cut had affected its launch night. [4] The first programme was the news bulletin.
Between January and June 1990, Radio Times had its audited circulation of 2.8 million and TV Times of 2.7 million within a year before the deregulation of television listings as they both had exclusivity of the future BBC and other commercial broadcasters respectively.
On 1 March 1991, the monopoly on listings magazines ended and the market was opened up. [3] Before this, there were two magazines on the market: Radio Times, began in 1923, for BBC listings and TV Times, began in 1955, for ITV and, from 1982, Channel 4 and S4C listings.
Tonight is a British current affairs television programme, presented by Cliff Michelmore, that was broadcast on BBC live on weekday evenings from 18 February 1957 to 18 June 1965. The producers were the future Controller of BBC1 Donald Baverstock and the future Director-General of the BBC Alasdair Milne. The audience was typically seven million ...
Tonight (1957 TV programme), a 1957–1965 British current events television programme hosted by Cliff Michelmore that was broadcast on BBC; Tonight (1975 TV programme), a 1975–1979 British current events television programme on BBC One; Tonight (1999 TV programme), a British news magazine television programme that has aired on ITV since 1999