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The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster headquartered at Broadcasting House in London, England.Originally established in 1922 as the British Broadcasting Company, it evolved into its current state with its current name on New Year's Day 1927.
The BBC will not be funded from general taxation if the TV licence fee is abolished, the culture secretary has said. Lisa Nandy told BBC Breakfast the licence fee was "deeply regressive" and that ...
The BBC, whose broadcasting in the UK is funded by a licence fee and does not sell advertising time, is most notable for being the first public service broadcaster in the UK. Its first director general, Lord Reith introduced many of the concepts that would later define public service broadcasting in the UK when he adopted the mission to ...
The former government announced a review into the corporation’s licence fee model, which will look at alternative funding for the BBC’s operations. BBC chairman says ‘reforming’ or ...
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is the national broadcaster of the United Kingdom.Headquartered at Broadcasting House in London, it is the world's oldest national broadcaster, and the largest broadcaster in the world by number of employees, employing over 22,000 staff in total, of whom approximately 19,000 are in public-sector broadcasting.
The BBC was established under a royal charter, and operates under an agreement with the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport. 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 receive or record live television ...
Samir Shah questioned why the BBC needed a ‘root-and-branch review of everything we do, including our very existence’ every 10 years.
The oldest and largest local and global broadcaster by stature and by number of employees, the BBC employs over 21,000 staff in total, of whom approximately 17,200 are in public-sector broadcasting. The BBC was established under a royal charter, and operates under an agreement with the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport.