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The building was designed by George James Miller of James Miller & Sons of Glasgow in 1936 and completed in 1938. [2]BBC Broadcasting House in Belfast has many radio studios, some self-operated, some staffed, used for the BBC's main local radio station in Northern Ireland – BBC Radio Ulster, as well as being used by the BBC for other radio productions.
BBC Radio 1, BBC Radio 1Xtra, BBC Radio 3, BBC Radio 4, BBC Radio 4 Extra, BBC Radio London, BBC World Service: Headquarters of the BBC. Home of BBC News, BBC Television and BBC Radio. BBC Maida Vale: London: Studio Centre. Home of BBC Symphony Orchestra and recording studios. BBC Archive Centre: London: Home to the BBC Archives. Queen ...
BBC Northern Ireland has three main television studios located in Belfast. There are two small studios located in the BBC Broadcasting House in Belfast. These are home to BBC Northern Ireland's regional news and current affairs programmes. They are around 2,000 sq ft (190 m 2) each and are called Studio B and Studio 1.
The first BBC weather forecast was a shipping forecast, broadcast on the radio on behalf of the Met Office on 14 November 1922, and the first daily weather forecast was broadcast on 26 March 1923. In 1936, the BBC experimented with the world's first televised weather maps, brought into practice in 1949 after World War II. The map filled the ...
BBC World News was the first of BBC's news services to move into the new building on Monday 14 January 2013, beginning with GMT at noon. Queen Elizabeth II officially opened the extension on 7 June 2013. [18] The second phase development won the 'Programme of the Year' award at the 2013 annual awards of the Association for Project Management. [19]
18 June: The BBC's Radio Supplement publication is replaced by its new periodical, World Radio. 22 July: Final return of shareholders filed. [5] 14 November: The International Broadcasting Union publishes its Geneva Plan, which reduces the number of BBC wavelengths. This forces the company to move towards a restructuring of its services which ...
Freesat is a British free-to-air satellite television service, first formed as a joint venture between the BBC and ITV plc [2] and now owned by Everyone TV (itself owned by all of the four UK public service broadcasters, BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5).
BBC English Regions is the division of the BBC responsible for local and regional television, radio, web, and teletext services in England, the Isle of Man, and the Channel Islands. It is one of the BBC's four "nations" – the others being BBC Cymru Wales, BBC Northern Ireland, and BBC Scotland. [2] The division is made up of 12 regions.