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BBC First made its debut as a linear channel in Poland on 26 October 2018, replacing BBC HD. Commenting on the development, Jacek Koskowski, general manager and VP for Poland, BBC Studios, said: “We’re living through a golden era of British drama with outstanding talent producing some of the very best television in the world.
BBC HD began broadcasting on 15 May 2006 as a trial station to test the possibility and technical practicality of broadcasting programmes in HD. [2] [3] The first programme to be broadcast that was specifically made for HD was natural history programme Planet Earth, which was shown on 27 May 2006.
BBC First is a Canadian English-language high definition discretionary television channel owned by Blue Ant Media. It is a localized version of the international BBC First service, which broadcasts a variety of drama, comedy, and film programming originating primarily from the BBC .
BBC Two Wales HD [n 4] BBC Three HD: 10 December 2013 BBC Four HD: BBC News HD: BBC Parliament HD: April 2022 BBC Scotland HD: 24 February 2019 Bloomberg HD: Bloomberg L.P. 1 March 2017 Boomerang HD: Turner Broadcasting System Europe (Warner Bros. Discovery) 24 June 2015 Cartoon Network HD: 14 September 2011 CBBC HD: BBC 10 December 2013 ...
The channel broadcast HD simulcasts of programmes on BBC One, BBC Two, BBC Three and BBC Four as well as repeats of some older programmes in HD. In 2010, an HD simulcast of BBC One launched: BBC One HD. The channel uses HD versions of BBC One's schedule and uses upscaled versions of programmes not currently produced in HD.
The channel was also included in HD Cable Platform Teledünya in Turkey. The channel was launched on 3 December 2008 from the Canal Digital platform and YouSee in Denmark. [7] It was the third BBC HD channel overall (after the British BBC HD and BBC HD Australia), and the first in Continental Europe.
The world's first scheduled, high-definition (as then defined; meaning 240-line) television programmes were broadcast on 2 November 1936 by the British Broadcasting Corporation. They had been preceded by a number of low-definition BBC test broadcasts, as well as a 180-line Deutscher Fernseh Rundfunk service, from Berlin, since March 1935.
While BBC Canada was part-owned by the BBC, not all of the BBC's programmes aired on BBC Canada. In general, while BBC Worldwide and its affiliated operations have a "first look" at the corporation's output, this right only applies so long as BBC Worldwide pays no less than what the BBC Commercial Agency, which is at arm's length, judges to be a particular property's value. [8]