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This is a list of newsreaders and journalists currently employed by BBC Television and BBC Radio. Presenters and journalists appear across BBC television, radio but also contribute to BBC Online . BBC News provides television journalism to BBC network bulletins (on BBC One and BBC Two ) and programmes as well as the BBC News Channel available ...
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 oldest and largest local and global broadcaster by ...
The British Broadcasting Corporation 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 oldest and largest local and global broadcaster by stature ...
He left to set up his own broadcasting company and to work for Channel 4. He died in 1997. Patrick Hannan – main presenter on Wales Today during the 1970s. He also worked as the BBC's political correspondent in Wales for 13 years, and he presented the BBC Radio 4 political and discussion programmes Out Of Order and Tea Junction. He died in 2009.
31 December: The General Post Offices has issued 2¼ million receiving licences. The contracts of 773 British Broadcasting Company staff are terminated and, with the dissolution of the company, shareholders are paid at par value. All assets, plant and copyrights held by the British Broadcasting Company are transferred to the Postmaster General.
The British Broadcasting Company broadcast its first radio bulletin from radio station 2LO on 14 November 1922. [10] Wishing to avoid competition, newspaper publishers persuaded the government to ban the BBC from broadcasting news before 7 p.m., and to force it to use wire service copy instead of reporting on its own. [9]
The BBC Board is the governing board of the British Broadcasting Corporation.The board replaced the BBC Trust in April 2017. [1]The chair and four non-executive members representing the four nations are appointed by the King-in-Council, on the advice of the UK Secretary of State.
The director-general of the British Broadcasting Corporation is chief executive and (from 1994) editor-in-chief of the BBC. The post-holder was formerly appointed by the Board of Governors of the BBC (for the period 1927 to 2007) and then the BBC Trust (from 2007 to 2017). Since 2017 the director-general has been appointed by the BBC Board.