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The Air Force is The non-mass media corporation, founded in 1922, provides both internal and external Internet broadcasting, as well as radio and television broadcasting. Outside the UK, they are mainly known for: the BBC World Service radio, which broadcasts in 28 different languages, as well as the BBC World News television channel. The corporation is a public organization with a control board consisting of 12 trustees, who are elected by the British Queen.
BBC(eng. British Broadcasting Corporation, BBC) is UK radio and television broadcasting complex.
BBC is one of the largest news agencies in the world, founded in Great Britain in 1992.
BBC is a series of educational documentaries on various topics.
The media corporation carries out both internal and external Internet, radio and television broadcasting conducted by the BBC World Service. The corporation is not a state-owned media outlet, but is a public organization with a control board consisting of 12 trustees appointed by the Queen of England. Outside the UK, the best known radio stations are the BBC World Service, which broadcasts in 28 languages, and the BBC World News TV channel.
The company was founded in 1922. International broadcasting began in 1932. From 1929 a transmitter was used in London, and by 1930 regular television programs were broadcast using an antenna at Brookmans Park. Baird's company, now known as BBC One, launched television production on August 2, 1932. Before the break in broadcasting caused by World War II, the channel's audience numbered 25-40 thousand homes. The break was caused by the fact that VHF transmissions would provide excellent bearings for German bombers, and engineers and technicians were needed for military purposes.
In 1946 television broadcasts resumed from Alexandra Palace. The BBC Television Service broadcast a variety of programs to reach a wide audience. BBC TV was renamed BBC1 in 1964, following the launch of BBC2, the third highest rated channel in the UK (ITV was second). A fire at Battersea Power Station caused a widespread blackout across London, delaying the launch of the canal, scheduled for 20 April 1964. The opening of the channel took place by candlelight. BBC2 was the first British channel to broadcast in the UHF range.
The Alexander Palace television tower in London has been operated by the BBC since 1936.
In 1967, BBC Two became the first channel in Europe to broadcast TV programs in PAL color. (BBC One and ITV did not begin broadcasting in color until 15 November 1969). BBC Two did not show soap operas or regular news.
Presenter David Attenborough left BBC Two to work on BBC Natural History, which ran until the 1950s. The whole world knows the David Attenborough programs created by this association: “Life on Earth”, “The Invisible Life of Plants”, “Blue Planet” and “Planet Earth”.
In 1974, the BBC introduced the first teletext system, Ceefax.
In July 2003, the BBC began broadcasting programs using the Astra 2D satellite, at a cost to the BBC of £85 million.
In July 2004, the BBC celebrated its fiftieth anniversary. A recording of this event was released on DVD. At the end of 2006, BBC Television, headed by Jana Bennett, merged with a larger entity: BBC Vision.
BBC logos
For a relatively long time, the BBC managed without a permanent logo. When television broadcasting began in 1936, the gaps between programs were filled in with various test cards or simple captions. In 1953, Abram Games drew a logo in the spirit of the time, which was nicknamed “Bat's wings”. The center of the logo featured a rotating globe, and for the BBC in Scotland, a lion was placed in the center.
The logo idea that was used the longest was the one that appeared on screens on September 30, 1963. The announcer said the words “You are watching BBC Television” (English: “This is BBC Television”), and at this time the slanted letters “BBC tv” appeared against the background of a rotating globe.
In the early 1990s, the letters were leveled off, leaving only two colors: black and white; the font was also changed to Gill Sans. This shows a connection with 1932, when the typeface's designer, Eric Gill, was a key sculptor in the work on the BBC Broadcasting House project.
BBC history
The BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) was founded on 18 October 1922 as the British Broadcasting Company Ltd. a group of enterprises as a private structure. The first transfer was made on November 14 of the same year. In 1927 the company was granted a royal privilege.
It itself was nationalized by the government, although it remained independent in editorial policy and had broad self-government. The company began broadcasting outside the UK in December 1932. The foreign broadcasting of the “Imperial Service,” as it was then called, was intended to unite the English-speaking population of the British Empire. Soon after the broadcast began, King George V was the first monarch to broadcast Christmas greetings on the radio. He addressed "people cut off by snow and desert, to whom only ethereal voices can reach." The BBC began its first regular television broadcasts in November 1936, when all other broadcasters were just experimenting with the transmission of images over a distance. The first two non-English services (Spanish for Latin America and Arabic) began operating in 1938. And by the beginning of World War II, the BBC was broadcasting in seven languages. Before the break in broadcasting caused by the war, the channel's audience numbered 25-40 thousand homes. The break was caused by the fact that ultrashort wave transmission would serve as an excellent bearing for German bombers, and engineers and technicians were needed for military purposes.
In 1946 television broadcasts resumed from Alexandra Palace. The BBC Television Service broadcast a variety of programs reaching a wide audience. In the post-war period, a global “transistor revolution” occurred, thanks to which the population acquired millions of inexpensive radios. This led to an explosive growth in the world's radio audience, for which the BBC World Service and many other broadcasters fought.
After the war, the BBC was the first broadcaster in the world to create its own educational television programs and educational documentary television series, such as Wildlife and Walking with Dinosaurs.
BBC TV was renamed BBC One in 1964, following the launch of BBC Two, the third highest rated channel in the UK (ITV was second). A fire at Battersea Power Station caused a widespread blackout across London, delaying the launch of the canal, scheduled for 20 April 1964. Therefore, the opening of the channel took place by candlelight. BBC Two was the first British channel to broadcast in the ultra-high frequency range. The whole world knows about David Attenborough's programs created by this association: Life on Earth, The Private Life of Plants, Blue Planet and Planet Earth. In 1967, BBC Two became the first channel in Europe to broadcast television in color (BBC One and ITV only began broadcasting in color in November 1969).
In 1974, the BBC introduced the first teletext system, Ceefax, a network television service providing the transmission of text and simple images. In 1988 the External Service was renamed the BBC World Service.
Today the BBC owns two broadcast and three cable television channels. In addition, it includes 14 national digital radio stations, two Internet sites and 40 magazines. Domestically, the BBC has 20 different television channels, including a 24-hour news channel - BBC News.
The BBC is governed by a board of directors (12 people) and a director general, who are appointed by the Queen on behalf of the government. Financially, the BBC World Service was supported by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, but in October 2010 it relieved itself of these responsibilities, transferring the BBC to the main balance sheet of the British Broadcasting Corporation. The legal basis for the company's activities is the charter - the charter, in accordance with which the British Broadcasting Corporation exists. The current Charter came into force in 2007 and will expire at the end of 2016. The document fully recognizes the BBC's editorial independence and defines the public purpose, role and structure of the corporation. In addition, the charter outlines the BBC's core values:
1.Trust is the foundation of the BBC; we are independent, impartial and honest.
2.The audience is at the center of everything we do.
3.We are proud of the quality of our work.
4.Creativity is the life and blood of our organization.
5.We respect everyone and give everyone the opportunity to do what they do best.
6.We are one BBC: when we work together we can do a lot.
The BBC currently broadcasts in 32 languages. The BBC's latest global audience survey (May 2007) puts it at 183 million listeners per week. About 37.6 million of this number listen to the BBC in English. The main residence of the World Service is Bush House. It received this name in honor of the man who built it, Irving Bush, who is the owner of the New York Bush Terminal Company. The BBC's mission is to enrich people's lives with programs and services that inform, educate and entertain, and to be the world's most creative organisation.
The satellite era for the BBC began in 1991, when it was loudly trumpeted to the whole world on the pay TV channel for Europe and Asia. On April 15, 1992, transmissions to Africa began. The strategic goal was then chosen to create a global BBC channel, which was implemented in 1993. The program produced in London consisted mainly of a mixture of existing BBC television programmes. In the evenings, the BBC World Service provided a half-hour news bulletin with weather and financial information. The rest of the program consisted of television features, drama, light entertainment, sports and children's programmes, chronicles and news. BBC Worldwide Television (the main commercial arm of the BBC) is responsible for all that relates to the BBC's commercial and international television activities . It is the largest international broadcast operator and a leading distributor and co-producer of BBC programmes. BBC Worldwide Television was created in May 1994 by merging the television arm of BBC Enterprises and the business channel BBC World Service Television.
In 1994-95, BBC Worldwide was granted a patent for over 14,500 hours of broadcast programs in over 80 countries, making the BBC the largest European exporter of television programmes; the most famous of them were “Great White Shark”, “Mid March”, “Absolutely Incredible”.
BBC Worldwide Television has dedicated teams that specialize in their programming areas, working with the BBC's Production Department, independent producers and eight overseas offices. These teams determine the investment, marketing and commercial strategy for key programs with subsequent possible licensing at the international level. In 1994-95 alone, 111 cooperation agreements were concluded with broadcasters in 14 countries, the value of BBC Worldwide Television deals at the Cannes festival (MIPTV Program Market) reached 15.4 million pounds. BBC Worldwide Television has overseas offices in New York, Los Angeles, Toronto, Sydney, Hong Kong, Tokyo, Paris and Cologne, which represent BBC Worldwide Television's interests outside the UK. In January 1995, BBC World Service Televisions (news and information channel) was renamed BBC World and partially reorganized for a European launch. The new channel was merged with BBC Prime (now BBC Entertainment), and the main TV channels and BBC World Service Televisions programs were relaunched.
The BBC has access to the largest libraries of film and video materials, BBC Librares Sales licenses extracts and special selections of film and video materials to users around the world. Since July 25, 2005, the BBC channel management has introduced internal censorship. From now on, the BBC stopped showing scenes of extreme cruelty. To achieve this, all live broadcasts, in particular those that may contain scenes of cruelty, began to be broadcast with a delay of several seconds. This time allows us to cut out all episodes of violence that a special commission will identify.
World Service has repeatedly said that it cannot afford to stand still, therefore, in order to keep up with technological changes, it constantly updates its list of services and modernizes old services. In 2006, the BBC launched a public test broadcast of high-definition television - HD. BBC HD is broadcast 24 hours a day on terrestrial television in the UK, as well as on Astra 2D satellite. On November 3, 2010, the BBC launched another high-definition channel - BBC One HD, the BBC's second HD channel. And in 2012, the BBC will broadcast broadcasts from the London Olympics only in HD format.
In July 2007, the BBC began providing a new service, currently only available to UK residents. iPlayer is an easy-to-use gadget that allows you to access TV programs via your computer. Thanks to it, you can watch TV programs from the last seven days, as well as listen to both live and recorded radio programs.
Residents of the United Kingdom can access TV programs for free via iPlayer; they are offered in high quality and without advertising. Once a TV or radio program is downloaded to a computer, the user has 30 days to start watching it and seven days to finish it. In the same year, the British Broadcasting Corporation BBC launched a new service - Internet access via TV. If successful, this state corporation could become one of the leading players in the Internet access market.
In 2009, the BBC created a new digital communications department. This is due to the fact that the BBC is showing interest in digital broadcasting through satellite and digital services, in addition, the digital television audience is growing rapidly. The head of the new department was Paul Elmond, who previously headed Air Force Vision. In the same year, the BBC launched a new service - broadcasting its television programs to mobile phones. Viewers can watch programs from channels such as BBC One, BBC Four, CBeebies and BBC News.
In March 2010, the BBC provided several high-budget documentaries to the Ukrainian entertainment channel TVi.
In 2010, the corporation decided to expand its field of activity and open its own animation studio. At the moment, management is looking for a suitable location for a new unit. BBC animators will work to produce content for both adults and the company's younger audiences. To do this, two BBC divisions specializing in the production of entertainment and children's programs will combine their efforts to create the studio. The formation of the new division will be completed at the beginning of 2011.
The BBC manages to combine classic plays, fresh, new comedies, true stories, educational and children's programs, live concerts, new music, religious programs. And all this over a long period of time, especially in England, but it also attracts audiences in many other countries.
Over the past 2 years, the BBC has saved a total of £200 million through effective implementations and innovations. The BBC will use these funds to create new programs and invest in new digital technologies to make its products even more effective and competitive.
The BBC is its own name in the television and radio market. 95% of UK homes watch and listen to BBC programs every week, at a cost of 3.7p per hour per subscriber. The response to BBC programs is enormous. The BBC's commercial activities bring in annual 'fees' of £72 million - a successful business by any standard - but even that is small compared to the $1.7 billion it receives and spends each year on all things licensing and broadcasting rights. .BBC places great emphasis on listening to viewers and listeners during programs for the sake of communication and, of course, exploring the ideas that audiences expect from the channel. The BBC is interested in its audience to satisfy its creative ambitions.
Teletext of BBC channels is quite diverse and easy to use. Traditionally, page 100 offers a menu for the main sections. On the pages of BBC World teletext you can find messages from hot spots on the planet, news from war zones, and right there, along with them, a completely serious message like “is there life on Mars” about scientists’ research. Sports fans will be interested in the results of European cup football matches, news from the tennis courts, as well as competition results and data on rugby, motorsports, athletics, equestrian sports, boxing, golf and cricket. The Sport Diary section offers announcements of upcoming sporting events. A fairly large section is devoted to finance and economics. Here you can find out the current ratios of world currencies, prices for metals and oil on various exchanges, indices, economic news, and much more from the financial market.
BBC radio stations
BBC Radio 1: aimed at young audiences, broadcasts contemporary pop and rock music (including top 40 most popular singles), news, live studio performances and concerts, music documentaries
BBC Radio 3: arts and culture, music of interest (classical, jazz), news, live studio performances and concerts, music documentaries
BBC Television
Europe. BBC Worldwide Television broadcasts a 24-hour channel to Europe: BBC Entertainment Europe (formerly BBC Prime), a high-quality entertainment channel with an annual fee.
Asia. BBC World News is freely available throughout mainland Asia and since June 1994 in Hong Kong on coastal cable networks. In Japan, BBC World News also broadcasts 24 hours a day, including 4 hours of Japanese broadcast. Since December 2004, the BBC Japan entertainment channel began broadcasting in the Land of the Rising Sun. For a monthly fee of $6, viewers were able to watch popular British series, including EastEnders. BBC Japan was launched after the British Broadcasting Corporation's other channel, BBC Prime, achieved success in some Asian markets. But in 2006, BBC Japan began to have problems. The reason for closing the station was the financial problems experienced by the Japanese partner of the British Broadcasting Corporation - Japan MediArk Co. (JMC).
On March 4, 2008, the BBC launched a satellite and cable TV channel in Arabic. BBC Arabic's 12-hour broadcast is now free and available to anyone with a cable or satellite TV connection in North Africa, the Middle East and the Gulf countries. The British Kingdom took over the financing of the new channel, which competed with Al-Jazeera and Al-Arabiya. BBC Arabic spent £25m. To cover the costs of broadcasting BBC Arabic, 10 other BBC foreign language channels had to be closed in 2005 (Bulgarian, Hungarian, Greek, Polish, Slovak, Slovenian, Croatian and Czech services were closed). In addition, broadcasting in Kazakh and Thai languages was closed. "Closing several language services is an extremely difficult decision," said BBC chief executive Nigel Chapman. “We took into account three factors - the relative geopolitical importance of each market, the availability of independent national and regional media and the performance of our audience in these regions.” However, the BBC Arabic channel fully justified itself: the channel’s audience reached 35 million people by 2010, due to which, a year earlier, in 2009, the BBC expanded the BBC Arabic broadcasting network to 24 hours a day.
Middle East. In addition to the Panamsat 4 satellite, from which you can freely watch programs in the Middle East, the BBC channel is broadcast by Bahrain Television and on cable TV. In addition, on January 14, 2009, the BBC Persian TV channel began operating, aimed at Persian speakers in Iran, Afghanistan and Tajikistan. Broadcasting from the BBC's London studios daily from 12:30 to 21:30.
America. Headquartered in New York and Los Angeles, BBC Worldwide America operates BBC Worldwide's operations in the United States, including the BBC America cable channel and the bicoastal production unit responsible for the hit program Dancing with the Stars. stars").
Africa. The BBC demonstrated its growing interest in the African market by announcing in 2008 the launch of a new family of channels in Africa - BBC Entertainment, BBC Knowledge, BBC Lifestyle and Cbeebies. The channels launched on 1 September 2008, replacing BBC Food and the former entertainment channel BBC Prime. “The African market has always been of great importance to us. We plan to invest a significant amount of money in it, in particular, we are now launching four thematic channels in Africa,” said Dean Possenniski, general director and senior vice president for Europe, the Middle East and Africa, BBC Worldwide Channels. The channels are available 24 hours a day via subscription through a company based in South Africa.
BBC World News Channel
BBC World News is a 24-hour international news and information channel covering Asia, Africa, Australia, the Middle East and Europe, and is also broadcast in New Zealand, Canada and several countries in Asia and Africa. It is the most popular among all television channels of the corporation.
Launched in October 1991 as BBC World Service Television, the channel was renamed BBC World. Broadcasts to Europe began in January 1995. BBC World broadcast hourly news and 5 review programs every day of the week. It had 250 correspondents across the BBC global network and offered viewers a kaleidoscope of regular news programmes, expert analyses, business, sport and regional news, along with frequent weather reports from the BBC Weather Centre. These broadcasts complemented a wide range of business, documentary and other programs. BBC World news programs were provided to airlines such as British Airways, Cathay Pacific, Air India, Royal Brunei, KLM, Air Mauritius, Lufthansa.
The channel was originally planned as a regular channel for foreign broadcasting, although unlike BBC World Radio, which is funded by the English government, the English government refused to pay subsidies for the TV channel. The channel was launched on March 11, 1991. After two week-long pilot programs, the channel began broadcasting permanently. On January 1, 1994, the channel was divided into two parts: one channel was an entertainment channel that required a special subscription, the other channel was a news channel. In the same year 94, the channel underwent a minor rebranding. From 1994 to 1997, the graphics and studio design of news programs were very similar to those used on regular BBC channels in England.
The channel's new design and updates came after a new corporate logo was introduced on October 4, 1997, and graphics changes occurred on November 9, 1997. Another major design change for the channel came in 1999, when the news took on the same corporate colors , such as red and cream, as well as a single "countback" musical arrangement, which was written by composer David Lowe, thereby deviating from the main tunes with an orchestra.
In 2003, a new rebranding took place, using the same “countdowns” as musical accompaniment. The graphics have also changed. The music was slightly changed, while the graphics changed to black and red, using frosted glass in the studio, as well as red and white tones. Later, in 2004, the channel's slogan was changed, which directly indicated that the channel had become completely news. In 2008, the channel was renamed BBC World News. New graphics were created, as well as remastered music by David Lowe.
BBC Entertainment Channel
It is the second largest 24-hour coded entertainment channel, along with BBC World News, available only in continental Europe to more than 4.2 million subscribers. Beginning broadcast in 1995, BBC Prime became the international entertainment channel of the BBC. It was broadcast in Europe, Africa and the Middle East via satellite and cable television systems to more than 11 million subscribers in 100 countries. In terms of distribution, the channel was one of the most popular European channels. Data from the EMS 2002 survey showed that BBC Prime ranks fourth among all European channels in terms of weekly viewing for 24-hour channels.
In 2009, it changed its name from BBC Prime to BBC Entertainment. The channel name change was sacrificed in line with the rebranding of the BBC Worldwide platform channels. By the end of its broadcast, BBC Prime reached about 12 million households in Europe and the Middle East. The BBC Entertainment channel started broadcasting in Asia in 2006. In addition, it has several localized versions in India, Poland, Africa, Scandinavia and South America.
Now the BBC Entertainment channel presents a mixture of entertainment programs, films of all genres, the best music, children's programs, games (by the way, the Weakest Link program first aired on BBC Prime), films of all genres for the whole family.
Current state of the BBC
The BBC owns two terrestrial and three cable/satellite/digital TV channels in the UK, 14 national digital radio stations, several Internet sites, and about 40 magazines. BBC Worldwide owns the international channels BBC Prime, BBC Canada and BBC America. BBC revenue in 2005 was $7.205 billion. Within the UK, the BBC has more than 20 different television channels, including a 24-hour news channel - BBC News. Radio broadcasting is carried out on 14 different channels, transmitting news, radio shows, sports and music of different styles and trends.
The corporation also owns the international news channel BBC World News, which, due to its coverage, is the most popular BBC television channel.
Financially, the BBC exists on a special fee, which is paid by all residents of the country who have a TV at home, as well as any device that allows you to view a video signal in real time, including a mobile phone. This amount amounts to 2.8 billion pounds (almost $5.4 billion) annually. Legally, the BBC operates in accordance with the Charter (the charter under which the British Broadcasting Corporation exists). The BBC Charter, which sets out the objectives, role and structure of the corporation, first came into force in 1927. It is updated every 10 years.
The BBC World Service (formerly the Imperial Service) began operating in 1932. Today it broadcasts in 28 languages, including English. The total number of all listeners included in the Worldwide Chapter Service exceeds 150 million people.
The World Service's main residence, Bush House, takes its name from its builder, Irving Bush, owner of the New York-based Bush Terminal Company and one of the relatives of former United States President George W. Bush.
Like the American radio stations Voice of America and Liberty, Free Europe, the BBC, in light of the end of the Cold War and the collapse of the USSR, as well as in connection with the fight against international terrorism, changed its foreign broadcasting priorities. The BBC World Service has stopped broadcasting in 10 languages since 2007. The savings were used to create a new TV channel in Arabic.
The Arabic channel became the BBC's first international television service in a language other than English. The new channel began broadcasting in 2008. In 2009, its broadcasting became 24 hours a day.
The cuts in 2006 affected mainly radio editorial offices broadcasting to Central European countries. Bulgarian, Hungarian, Greek, Polish, Slovak, Slovenian, Croatian and Czech services will be closed. In addition, broadcasting in Kazakh and Thai languages will be closed. There were also plans to cut radio broadcasts in Brazil (the BBC Brazil website will remain) and internet broadcasts in Hindi. All these transformations were planned to be completed by March 2006.
In 2011, due to budget cuts, the Albanian, Macedonian and Serbian services of the BBC were completely discontinued. Services that produced programs for the Caribbean in English and for African countries in Portuguese were also closed. Seven services abandoned radio broadcasting and continued to operate on the Internet. Among them are the Azerbaijani and Ukrainian services of the BBC. The last radio broadcast of the Ukrainian BBC service took place on April 29, 2011.
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BBC in Russia
On June 23, 1941, speaking in Parliament, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill announced to his compatriots that Germany was attacking the Soviet Union. The BBC decided to translate Churchill's historical speech into Russian and broadcast it to radio listeners in the USSR. This broadcast marked the beginning of Russian-language broadcasting of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC). Since then, the leadership of the External Service (as then was called the BBC World Service), debates about the advisability of regular broadcasting in Russian began to become more and more active.
Opponents argued that the USSR was not interested in news from Great Britain and that few people there had shortwave receivers. Moreover, after broadcasting a translation of Churchill’s speech, Soviet diplomats accredited in London “gently” made it clear that Moscow did not see the point in broadcasts of this kind. As a result, regular broadcasting of the British Broadcasting Corporation in Russian began only five years later, after the famous Fulton Churchill's speeches about the Iron Curtain.
On 24 March 1946 at 19:45 Moscow time, Sonia (Betty) Horsfall presented the first program produced by the BBC Russian Section. That newsletter included reports on negotiations between Iran and the USSR on the withdrawal of Soviet troops, announced by the Soviet Union evacuation from Manchuria, the upcoming session of the UN Security Council and the arrival of a British government delegation in India to negotiate self-government. The second half of the program consisted of light music.
BBC broadcasting in Russian has always been conducted in accordance with the principles formulated by the founder of the BBC, Lord Reath: “to inform, educate, entertain.”
Anatoly Goldberg was the personification of the BBC's "gentlemanly" style.
Because the BBC did not see itself as an alternative to domestic broadcasting in the USSR, Russian programs did not place much emphasis on events in Russia. The programs focused on life in the UK.
This was the fundamental difference between Russian-language broadcasting and, for example, the American Radio Liberation (later Radio Liberty), which was initially noticeably politicized and focused on reports about Soviet Russia. However, there were some difficult moments. Thus, in 1949, the former head of the Russian provisional government, Alexander Kerensky, spoke on the BBC. In his speech, he essentially called for an uprising, which immediately caused a protest from the Kremlin.
Earlier, in January 1948, the British government had ordered a policy of anti-communist propaganda, and the then head of the BBC's Eastern European Service supported the initiative. Later, together with employees of the British Foreign Office, he identified those sections of Soviet society that, in principle, could show disloyalty to the existing regime: prisoners of labor camps, dudes and students, low-paid workers, representatives of national minorities and believers - and proposed to directly or indirectly encourage their sentiments. On April 24, 1949, the USSR for the first time began to jam BBC broadcasts. The BBC took a retaliatory step by reaching an agreement with other Western radio stations, primarily the Voice of America, and began bombarding the USSR with radio broadcasts in such a way that they would go out at the same time, but at different frequencies. The tactic worked. Effective operation of jammers was achieved only in Moscow, Leningrad and several other large cities.
The BBC remained the most moderate and unbiased of all Western radio stations broadcasting in the USSR.
One of the most prominent figures in the Russian service of that time was Anatoly Goldberg. For many listeners, his calm voice personified the spirit of the BBC Russian Service for almost 40 years. In Moscow, Goldberg was once branded a spy and was forbidden to come to the USSR.
Since the 1950s, BBC jamming has become a barometer of relations between Moscow and London. It then stopped, then resumed.
During the Khrushchev Thaw, a weekly pop music program was broadcast, which became the forerunner of the very popular rock program created later by Seva Novgorodtsev. It was hosted by Anthony (Anthony) Cash, who accompanied the programs with funny ditties.
At the same time, the BBC began organizing quiz shows. At first, books about Britain were given away as prizes, and in 1965, winners of a particularly challenging quiz were offered a two-week trip to the UK. Hundreds of letters arrived. But the two winners were never allowed to leave the USSR.
After 1968, there was no point in holding quizzes at all.
The secretiveness and sluggishness of the Russian media gave foreign broadcasters a significant advantage. Thus, in 1964, the BBC, long before Soviet journalists, reported on the removal of Khrushchev from power. In addition, BBC listeners were able to hear an analysis of this event and the world’s reaction to the change in the Kremlin leadership.
Since 1992, several programs have been rebroadcast weekly by Radio Russia. In 1999, the audience was 6 million people per week. FM rebroadcast was stopped in November 2006. Broadcasts continue on medium wave in large cities and on short wave and satellite. The BBC Russian Service ceased broadcasting on March 26, 2011, maintaining broadcasts on the Internet and via satellite.
In 2005, radio presenter of the BBC Russian Service Seva Novgorodtsev became a Commander of the Order of the British Empire. This award was presented to him personally by Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace for outstanding services in radio journalism. The information program “Looking from London” and the comments of the day by Anatoly Maksimovich Goldberg were very popular.
The station’s waves also broadcast the famous musical program of Seva Novgorodtsev, which aired at midnight on Fridays and was repeated on Saturdays. This program lasted 30 minutes and introduced radio listeners to the latest British charts, and also included interesting stories about Western groups and musicians. In 2005, radio presenter of the BBC Russian Service Seva Novgorodtsev became a Commander of the Order of the British Empire. This award was presented to him personally by Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace for outstanding services in radio journalism. The information program “Looking from London” and the comments of the day by Anatoly Maksimovich Goldberg were very popular.
Official website of the BBC Russian service
The Internet domain was registered in January 1998.
Initially, the website bbcrussian.com, which posted the program schedule with the coordinates of the London editorial office, was created by a group of enthusiasts from among the service’s employees.
Over the next two years, the site had its own team of journalists, preparing and updating news materials. Since the late 1990s, the BBC Russian Service began broadcasting on the Internet.
In 2000, the management of the BBC World Service decided to develop a single design and introduce a single publishing system for the sites of all language services. Since the fall of 2000, the website of the BBC Russian Service began to be updated around the clock, seven days a week.
Initially, the Russian Service website existed in a fixed format with a width of 600 pixels, but in May 2003 the site design underwent major changes, and the page width increased to 800 pixels.
Since March 2006, news videos of its own production began to appear on the site, which have been updated around the clock since the spring of 2009. In addition, since 2007, podcasting has appeared on the site bbcrussian.com. Today, regularly updated podcasts of the programs “BibiSeva”, “You have the floor”, “Fifth Floor”, as well as English lessons are posted on the main page of the site.
Since April 2009, the Russian Service website has again completely changed its appearance, moving to a fixed width of 1024 pixels.
Sources and links
bbc.co.uk – the official website of the BBC
ru.wikipedia.org - Wikipedia the free library
kremlin.ru - official website of the President of Russia
o-dengah.ru - information site about money
ria.ru - information site
bse.sci-lib.com - Great Soviet Encyclopedia
beriuk.blogspot.com - Forex blog
ru.reuters.com - official website of Reuters in the Russian Federation and the CIS
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Launch
At the time of the launch of BBC Two, the only channels broadcast in the UK were the BBC Television Service and ITV, which were networks of small regional companies. The two channels have been in competition since ITV launched in 1955, seeking to gain popularity among television viewers. In 1962, the Pilkington Broadcasting Committee, discussing the launch of a third television channel, decided to give the third channel to the BBC because ITV was not seriously pursuing the issue. On this occasion, the first BBC television channel received the name BBC1.
The official broadcast start date was announced on April 20 at 19:20. The first program was supposed to be a comedy show "The Alberts", in which they were going to show the number of the Soviet pop actor Arkady Raikin, who was touring the UK at that time. After “The Alberts,” the musical “Kiss Me, Kat” was supposed to follow, at the end of which they were going to show a ceremonial fireworks display, symbolizing the opening of the TV channel. However, at 6:45 p.m., a fire broke out at Battersea Power Station, causing a power outage throughout West London. Fortunately, BBC1 continued to broadcast from Alexandra Palace, but BBC2 never launched. ITV applied for the third button but was refused. At 22:00 it was announced that the issue of launching the TV channel was postponed until the next morning.
Since the center at Alexandra Palace was not damaged, announcer Gerald Priestland read out the program schedule for tomorrow at 19:25 in the evening. It was assumed that this program guide was not recorded on any media, however, in 2003, a video cassette with a program guide was discovered in the archives.
BBC Two HD
Broadcasting of programs from BBC Two in HD format was carried out initially on BBC HD along with programs from BBC Three, BBC Four, CBBC and CBeebies. However, director general Mark Thompson announced on October 6 that all television channels would soon switch to HD, which would lead to the abolition of BBC HD. The transfer to widescreen broadcasting allowed the corporation to save £2.1 million.
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After talking about Princess Marya and her late father, whom Malvintseva apparently did not love, and asking about what Nikolai knew about Prince Andrei, who also apparently did not enjoy her favors, the important old woman let him go, repeating the invitation to be with her.Nikolai promised and blushed again when he bowed to Malvintseva. At the mention of Princess Marya, Rostov experienced an incomprehensible feeling of shyness, even fear.
Leaving Malvintseva, Rostov wanted to return to dancing, but the little governor’s wife put her plump hand on Nikolai’s sleeve and, saying that she needed to talk to him, led him to the sofa, from which those who were there came out immediately, so as not to disturb the governor’s wife.
“You know, mon cher,” said the governor’s wife with a serious expression on her kind little face, “this is definitely the match for you; Do you want me to marry you?
- Whom, ma tante? – Nikolai asked.
- I'm wooing the princess. Katerina Petrovna says that Lily, but in my opinion, no, is a princess. Want? I'm sure your maman will thank you. Really, what a lovely girl! And she's not that bad at all.
“Not at all,” Nikolai said, as if offended. “I, ma tante, as a soldier should, do not ask for anything and do not refuse anything,” Rostov said before he had time to think about what he was saying.
- So remember: this is not a joke.
- What a joke!
“Yes, yes,” said the governor’s wife, as if speaking to herself. - But here’s what else, mon cher, entre autres. Vous etes trop assidu aupres de l "autre, la blonde. [my friend. You look after the blonde one too much.] The husband is pathetic, really...
“Oh no, we’re friends,” Nikolai said in the simplicity of his soul: it never occurred to him that such a fun pastime for him could not be fun for anyone.
“What a stupid thing I said, however, to the governor’s wife! – Nikolai suddenly remembered during dinner. “She’ll definitely start wooing, and Sonya?..” And, saying goodbye to the governor’s wife, when she, smiling, once again told him: “Well, remember,” he took her aside:
- But to tell you the truth, ma tante...
- What, what, my friend; Let's go sit here.
Nikolai suddenly felt the desire and need to tell all his innermost thoughts (those that he would not have told his mother, sister, friend) to this almost stranger. Nikolai later, when he recalled this impulse of unprovoked, inexplicable frankness, which, however, had very important consequences for him, it seemed (as it always seems to people) that he had found a stupid verse; and yet this outburst of frankness, together with other minor events, had enormous consequences for him and for the whole family.
- That's it, ma tante. Maman has long wanted to marry me to a rich woman, but the thought alone disgusts me, marrying for money.
“Oh yes, I understand,” said the governor’s wife.
– But Princess Bolkonskaya, that’s another matter; first of all, I’ll tell you the truth, I really like her, she’s after my heart, and then, after I met her in this position, it’s so strange, it often occurred to me that this was fate. Think especially: maman has been thinking about this for a long time, but I had never met her before, as it all happened: we didn’t meet. And at a time when Natasha was her brother’s fiancée, because then I would not have been able to think about marrying her. It is necessary that I met her exactly when Natasha’s wedding was upset, and then that’s it... Yes, that’s what. I haven't told this to anyone and I won't tell it. And only to you.
The governor's wife shook his elbow gratefully.
– Do you know Sophie, cousin? I love her, I promised to marry her and I will marry her... Therefore, you see that this is out of the question,” Nikolai said awkwardly and blushing.
- Mon cher, mon cher, how do you judge? But Sophie has nothing, and you yourself said that things are very bad for your dad. And your maman? This will kill her, for one. Then Sophie, if she is a girl with a heart, what kind of life will she have? The mother is in despair, things are upset... No, mon cher, you and Sophie must understand this.
Nikolai was silent. He was pleased to hear these conclusions.
“Still, ma tante, this can’t be,” he said with a sigh, after a short silence. “Will the princess still marry me?” and again, she is now in mourning. Is it possible to think about this?
- Do you really think that I will marry you now? Il y a maniere et maniere, [There is a manner for everything.] - said the governor’s wife.
“What a matchmaker you are, ma tante...” said Nicolas, kissing her plump hand.
Arriving in Moscow after her meeting with Rostov, Princess Marya found there her nephew with his tutor and a letter from Prince Andrei, who prescribed them their route to Voronezh, to Aunt Malvintseva. Concerns about the move, worries about her brother, the arrangement of life in the new house, new faces, raising her nephew - all this drowned out in the soul of Princess Marya that feeling of temptation that tormented her during her illness and after the death of her father, and especially after meeting with Rostov. She was sad. The impression of the loss of her father, which was combined in her soul with the destruction of Russia, now, after a month that had passed since then in the conditions of a calm life, was felt more and more strongly by her. She was anxious: the thought of the dangers to which her brother, the only close person left with her, was exposed, tormented her incessantly. She was preoccupied with raising her nephew, for whom she felt constantly incapable; but in the depths of her soul there was an agreement with herself, resulting from the consciousness that she had suppressed the personal dreams and hopes that had arisen in herself, associated with the appearance of Rostov.
When the next day after her evening, the governor’s wife came to Malvintseva and, having talked with her aunt about her plans (having made the reservation that, although under the current circumstances it is impossible to even think about formal matchmaking, it is still possible to bring the young people together, let them get to know each other ), and when, having received the approval of her aunt, the governor's wife under Princess Marya spoke about Rostov, praising him and telling how he blushed at the mention of the princess, Princess Marya experienced not a joyful, but a painful feeling: her inner agreement no longer existed, and again Desires, doubts, reproaches and hopes arose.
In those two days that passed from the time of this news to the visit to Rostov, Princess Marya continually thought about how she should behave in relation to Rostov. Then she decided that she would not go into the living room when he arrived at his aunt’s, that in her deep mourning it was indecent for her to receive guests; then she thought it would be rude after what he had done for her; then it occurred to her that her aunt and the governor’s wife had some kind of plans for her and Rostov (their looks and words sometimes seemed to confirm this assumption); then she told herself that only she, with her depravity, could think this about them: they could not help but remember that in her position, when she had not yet taken off her plereza, such matchmaking would be insulting both to her and to the memory of her father. Assuming that she would come out to him, Princess Marya came up with the words that he would say to her and that she would say to him; and sometimes these words seemed to her undeservedly cold, sometimes they had too much meaning. Most of all, when meeting with him, she was afraid of embarrassment, which, she felt, should take possession of her and betray her as soon as she saw him.
But when, on Sunday after mass, the footman reported in the living room that Count Rostov had arrived, the princess did not show embarrassment; only a slight blush appeared on her cheeks, and her eyes lit up with a new, radiant light.
-Have you seen him, auntie? - Princess Marya said in a calm voice, not knowing how she could be so outwardly calm and natural.
When Rostov entered the room, the princess lowered her head for a moment, as if giving time to the guest to greet his aunt, and then, at the very time Nikolai turned to her, she raised her head and met his gaze with sparkling eyes. With a movement full of dignity and grace, she stood up with a joyful smile, extended her thin, gentle hand to him and spoke in a voice in which for the first time new, feminine chest sounds were heard. M lle Bourienne, who was in the living room, looked at Princess Marya with bewildered surprise. The most skillful coquette, she herself could not have maneuvered better when meeting a person who needed to please.
“Either black suits her so well, or she really has gotten so prettier and I didn’t notice. And most importantly – this tact and grace!” - thought m lle Bourienne.
If Princess Marya had been able to think at that moment, she would have been even more surprised than M lle Bourienne at the change that had taken place in her. From the moment she saw this sweet, beloved face, some new force of life took possession of her and forced her, against her will, to speak and act. Her face, from the time Rostov entered, suddenly changed. How suddenly, with unexpected, striking beauty, that complex, skillful artistic work appears on the walls of the painted and carved lantern, which previously seemed rough, dark and meaningless, when the light is lit inside: so suddenly the face of Princess Marya was transformed. For the first time, all that pure spiritual inner work with which she had lived until now came out. All her inner work, dissatisfied with herself, her suffering, striving for good, humility, love, self-sacrifice - all this now shone in those radiant eyes, in her thin smile, in every feature of her gentle face.
Rostov saw all this as clearly as if he had known her all her life. He felt that the creature in front of him was completely different, better than all those he had met so far, and better, most importantly, than himself.
The conversation was very simple and insignificant. They talked about the war, involuntarily, like everyone else, exaggerating their sadness about this event, they talked about the last meeting, and Nicholas tried to divert the conversation to another subject, they talked about the good governor’s wife, about the relatives of Nicholas and Princess Marya.
Princess Marya did not talk about her brother, diverting the conversation to another subject as soon as her aunt spoke about Andrei. It was clear that she could talk about the misfortunes of Russia feignedly, but her brother was a subject too close to her heart, and she did not want and could not talk lightly about him. Nikolai noticed this, just as he, with an astute observation unusual for him, noticed all the shades of Princess Marya’s character, which all only confirmed his conviction that she was a very special and extraordinary creature. Nikolai, just like Princess Marya, blushed and was embarrassed when they told him about the princess and even when he thought about her, but in her presence he felt completely free and said not at all what he had prepared, but what instantly and always opportunely came to his mind.
BBC, British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a complex of radio and television broadcasting in Great Britain. The Corporation carries out domestic television and radio broadcasting, as well as external broadcasting by the BBC World Service. The Corporation is not a state-owned media outlet, but is a public interest organization with a Board of Control consisting of 12 Trustees appointed by the Queen.
Created on October 18, 1922 as the British Broadcasting Company (British Broadcasting Company) by a number of private corporations - Marconi's Wireless Telegraph Company (back on February 14, 1922, it launched the first radio station in the UK - 2MT - in the western region on medium waves, but on January 17, 1923 it was closed), Metropolitan Vickers Electrical Company, Radio Communication Company, The British Thomson-Houston Company, The General Electric Company and Western Electric Company. In 1922-1924. The BBC launched a number of regional radio stations on medium wave - 2LO in London (14 November 1922), 5IT in the West Midlands (15 November that year), 2ZY in North West England (15 November), 5NO in North East England (24 December), 5WA in Wales (13 February 1923), 5SC in Scotland (6 March that year), 2FL in Yorkshire and the Humber (16 November), 5PY in South West England (28 March 1924), 2BE in Northern Ireland (16 September 1924) and 5NG in East Anglia (16 September the same year).
On 1 January 1927, the BBC was nationalized and renamed the British Broadcasting Corporation.
On March 9, 1930, the BBC launched the BBC National Programme, a long-wave radio station, regional radio stations were combined into the BBC Regional Programme (regular programs were broadcast using a transmitter at Brookmans Park), and in 1932 the BBC launched an international radio channel, the BBC Empire Service.
From 1929 a transmitter in London was used. Baird's company launched television production on August 2, 1932. Experimental television broadcasting was carried out using an electromechanical 30-line Baird system.
In 1934, television broadcasts became regular, although limited. In 1936, the BBC launched the BBC Television Service to broadcast on meter waves in the 405 line resolution standard.
Before the break in broadcasting caused by World War II, the channel's audience numbered 25-40 thousand homes.
In 1939, the BBC National Program was closed, on its frequency the BBC launched the BBC Forces Program radio station (in 1944 it was renamed the BBC General Forces Programme), the BBC Regional Program was renamed the BBC Home Service, the BBC Empire Service was renamed the BBC Overseas Service.
On 29 July 1945, the BBC launched the BBC Light Program radio station on its frequency in place of the BBC General Forces Programme. On March 26, 1946, the BBC's Russian service began broadcasting into the Soviet Union (the corporation's first major broadcast in Russian was Stalin's conversation with American correspondents during World War II, when the BBC became a platform for promoting the joint war effort of the Allies, and in particular Great Britain and the USSR), however, already in April 1949, jamming of BBC broadcasts began. Television broadcasts resumed in 1946 from Alexandra Palace station. In the same year, the BBC launched its third radio channel on long waves - the BBC Third Programme. In 1955, VHF versions of all three BBC radio stations were launched.
The BBC for a long time remained the only television network in the UK, but in 1955 it had a competitor - the commercial network ITV, broadcasting on meter waves in the 405 line standard. In radio broadcasting, the BBC's monopoly remained until the 1970s. A 1962 Broadcasting Committee report compared the two broadcasters, with the BBC receiving good reviews and ITV being heavily criticized for the quality of its programming. As a result, the BBC was allowed to open another channel.
BBC TV was renamed BBC1 in 1964, following the launch of BBC2, the third highest-rated channel in the UK (ITV was second), on the PAL UHF spectrum. A fire at Battersea Power Station caused a widespread blackout across London, delaying the launch of the canal, scheduled for 20 April 1964. The opening of the channel took place by candlelight. BBC Two did not show soap operas or regular news.
In 1965 the BBC Overseas Service was renamed the BBC World Service. In the same year, the BBC Home Service was renamed BBC Radio 4, the BBC Light Program was renamed BBC Radio 2, the BBC Third Program was BBC Radio 3, and in the same year the BBC launched its fourth radio channel, BBC Radio, on the BBC Light Program frequencies on medium wave. 1.
In 1967, the BBC launched regional radio stations BBC Radio Sheffield, BBC Radio Leicester, BBC Radio Merseyside, and in 1968 BBC Radio Stoke, BBC Radio Leeds, BBC Radio Durham, BBC Radio Nottingham, BBC Radio Brighton (now BBC Sussex).
On 15 November 1969, the BBC launched a PAL dub of BBC One. In 1970, the BBC launched regional radio stations BBC Radio Manchester, BBC Radio Oxford, BBC Radio Solent, BBC Radio Kent, BBC Radio Bristol, BBC Tees, BBC WM, BBC Radio London, in 1971 - BBC Radio Derby, BBC Radio Humberside, BBC Radio Lancashire, BBC Radio Newcastle, in 1973 BBC Radio Carlisle (now BBC Radio Cumbria).
In 1974, the BBC introduced the first teletext system, Ceefax. In 1980, the BBC launched regional radio stations BBC Radio Lincolnshire and BBC Radio Norfolk.
In 1981, the BBC launched the BBC Computer Literacy Project, as a result of which Acorn Computers in the same year released the BBC Micro home computer (with software in the BBC BASIC language) which could also rebroadcast Ceefax and Prestel, and in 1986 the production of the next model of home computers was launched - BBC Master. In 1982, the BBC launched regional radio stations - BBC Radio Cambridgeshire, BBC Radio Northampton, BBC Radio Guernsey, BBC Radio Jersey, in 1983 BBC Radio York, BBC Radio Cornwall, BBC Radio Devon. In the same year, a system for transferring software via Ceefax - Telesoftware - was launched.
BBC1's 405-line broadcasting was discontinued in 1985. In 1985, the BBC launched regional radio stations BBC Radio Bedfordshire (now BBC Three Counties Radio) and BBC Radio Shropshire, in 1986 - BBC Essex, in 1988 - BBC Radio Gloucestershire, BBC Somerset, in 1989 - BBC Wiltshire, BBC Hereford. and Worcester.
In 1987, a VHF version of BBC Radio 1 was launched. Telesoftware was discontinued that same year.
On 11 March 1991, the BBC launched the international satellite channel BBC World Service Television. On 30 January 1994 it was split into BBC World and BBC Prime. On September 9, 1997, the BBC launched the BBC News satellite channel, on September 23, the BBC Choice satellite channel, on June 1, 1999, the BBC Knowledge satellite channel, and on February 11, 2002, the CBBC satellite channel.
On November 15, 1998, digital duplicates of all BBC terrestrial and satellite channels were launched in the DVB-T standard. On 2 March 2002 BBC Knowledge was renamed BBC Four. On 11 March that year, the BBC launched digital radio station BBC Radio 6. On 9 February 2003, BBC Choice was renamed BBC Three. In July 2004, the BBC celebrated its eighty-second anniversary. A recording of this event was released on DVD. At the end of 2006, BBC Television, headed by Joanna Bennett, merged into a larger entity: BBC Vision.
During this period, the BBC's foreign television production continued to grow. On 19 June 2002, the BBC launched the international satellite channel BBC Food. In July 2003, the BBC began broadcasting programs using the Astra 2D satellite, at a cost to the BBC of £85 million. On 1 December 2004, the BBC launched an international satellite Japanese-language channel, BBC Japan. On April 30, 2006, BBC Japan was closed. On 11 July 2007, the BBC launched the international satellite channels BBC Lifestyle and BBC Knowledge.
On December 1, 2007, the BBC launched the BBC HD channel in 1080i resolution on channel 102. On December 2, 2009, the BBC HD double was launched in the DVB-T2 standard. On November 3, 2010, the BBC launched BBC One HD in 1080i on channel 101. On October 24, 2012, the on-air analogue duplicates of all BBC television channels stopped broadcasting, by which time the duplicates of all BBC radio channels on medium waves (except BBC Radio 4) also stopped broadcasting. On 13 February 2013, BBC HD was renamed BBC Two HD.
The BBC World Service has stopped broadcasting in 10 languages since 2007. The savings were used to create a new TV channel in Arabic. This year's cuts affected mainly radio editorial offices broadcasting to Central European countries. Bulgarian, Hungarian, Greek, Polish, Slovak, Slovenian, Croatian and Czech services were closed. In addition, broadcasting in Kazakh and Thai languages is closed. Radio broadcasting in Brazil (the website of the BBC Brazilian Service has been preserved) and Internet broadcasting in Hindi have also been reduced. All these transformations were planned to be completed by March 2006. The growth of television and foreign broadcasting continued. On March 11, 2008, the BBC launched the international satellite Arabic-language channel BBC Arabic Television, and in 2009 its broadcasting began 24 hours a day.
On 21 April 2008, BBC World was renamed BBC World News. On 26 December 2008 BBC Food was closed. On January 14, 2009, the BBC launched the international Persian-language satellite channel BBC Persian Television. On 11 November 2009, BBC Prime was renamed BBC Entertainment. In 2011, due to budget cuts, the Albanian, Macedonian and Serbian services of the BBC were completely discontinued. Services that produced programs for the Caribbean in English and for African countries in Portuguese were also closed. Seven services abandoned radio broadcasting and continued to operate on the Internet. Among them are the Russian, Azerbaijani and Ukrainian services of the BBC. The last radio broadcast of the Ukrainian and Russian services of the BBC took place on April 29, 2011.
In 2014, the BBC launched the international television channel BBC First; in 2015, the BBC launched the international television channel BBC Brit, BBC Earth.
BBC is a television, radio and internet broadcaster for Great Britain and the whole world.
BBC: , news, internet, films, documentaries
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The Air Force is The non-mass media corporation, founded in 1922, provides both internal and external Internet broadcasting, as well as radio and television broadcasting. Outside of England, they are mainly known: the BBC World Service, which broadcasts in 28 different languages, as well as the TV channel BBC World News. is a public company with a control board of 12 trustees elected by the British Queen.
BBC (English British Broadcasting Corporation, BBC) - This radio and television broadcasting complex Britain.
BBC is one of the largest news agencies in the world, founded in England in 1992.
BBC is a series of educational documentaries on various topics.
The media corporation carries out both internal and external Internet, radio and television broadcasting conducted by the BBC World Service. Corporation is not a state media, but is a public company with a control board consisting of 12 trustees appointed by the Queen of England. Known outside Britain mainly radio BBC World Service, broadcasting in 28 languages, and BBC World News.
Organization founded in 1922. International broadcasting began in 1932. From 1929 a transmitter was used in London, and by 1930 regular television programs were broadcast using an antenna at Brookmans Park. Baird's company, now known as BBC One, launched television production on August 2, 1932. Before the break in broadcasting caused by World War II, the channel's audience numbered 25-40 thousand homes. The break was caused by the fact that VHF transmissions would provide excellent bearings for German bombers, and engineers and technicians were needed for military purposes.
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In 1946 television broadcasts resumed from Alexandra Palace. The BBC Television Service broadcast a variety of programs reaching a wide audience.BBC TV was renamed BBC1 in 1964, following the launch of BBC2, the third highest rated channel in England (ITV was second). A fire at Battersea Power Station caused a widespread blackout across London, delaying the launch of the canal, scheduled for 20 April 1964. The opening of the channel took place by candlelight. BBC2 was the first British channel to broadcast in the UHF range.
The Alexander Palace television tower in London has been operated by the BBC since 1936.
In 1967, BBC Two became the first channel in Europe to broadcast TV programs in PAL color. (BBC One and ITV did not begin broadcasting in color until 15 November 1969). BBC Two did not show soap operas or regular news.
Presenter David Attenborough left BBC Two to work on BBC Natural History, which ran until the 1950s. The whole world knows the created data bringing together David Attenborough's Life on Earth, Invisible Plant Life, Blue Planet and Planet Earth businesses.
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In 1974, the BBC introduced the first teletext system, Ceefax.
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In July 2003, the BBC began broadcasting programs using the Astra 2D satellite, at a cost to the BBC of £85 million.
In July 2004, the BBC celebrated its fiftieth anniversary. A recording of this event was released on DVD. At the end of 2006, the BBC television, led by Jana Bennett, joined a larger merger of enterprises: BBC Vision.
February 29, 2012 corporation celebrated the 80th anniversary of the start of international broadcasting.
BBC logos
For a relatively long time, the BBC managed without a permanent logo. When television broadcasting began in 1936, the gaps between programs were filled in with various test cards or simple captions. In 1953, Abram Games drew a logo in the spirit of the time, which was nicknamed “Bat's wings”. The center of the logo featured a rotating globe, and for the BBC in Scotland, a lion was placed in the center.
The logo idea that was used the longest was the one that appeared on screens on September 30, 1963. The announcer said the words “you are watching BBC Television” (English: “This is BBC Television”), and at this time the slanted letters “BBC TV” appeared against the background of a rotating globe.
In the early 1990s, the letters were leveled off, leaving only two colors: black and white; the font was also changed to Gill Sans. This shows a connection with 1932, when the designer of this typeface, Eric Gill, was a key sculptor in work on the BBC Broadcasting House project
BBC history
The BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) was founded on 18 October 1922 as the British Broadcasting Organization Ltd. a group of enterprises as a private structure. The first transfer was made on November 14 of the same year. In 1927 the organization was granted royal privilege.
It itself was nationalized by the government, although it remained independent in editorial policy and had broad self-government. It began broadcasting outside Britain in December 1932. The foreign broadcasting of the “Imperial Service,” as it was then called, was intended to unite the English-speaking population of the British Empire. Soon after the broadcast began, King George V was the first monarch to broadcast Christmas greetings on the radio. He addressed "people cut off by snow and desert, to whom only ethereal voices can reach." The BBC began its first regular television broadcasts in November 1936, when all other broadcasters were just experimenting with the transmission of images over a distance. The first two non-English services (Spanish for Latin America and Arabic) began operating in 1938. And by the beginning of World War II, the BBC was broadcasting in seven languages. Before the break in broadcasting caused by the war, the channel's audience numbered 25-40 thousand homes. The break was caused by the fact that ultrashort wave transmission would serve as an excellent bearing for German bombers, and engineers and technicians were needed for military purposes.
In 1946 television broadcasts resumed from Alexandra Palace. The BBC Television Service broadcast a variety of programs reaching a wide audience. In the post-war period, a global “transistor revolution” occurred, thanks to which the population acquired millions of inexpensive radios. This led to an explosive growth in the world's radio audience, for which the BBC World Service and many other broadcasters fought.
After wars The BBC was the first broadcaster in the world to create its own educational television programs and educational documentaries, such as Wildlife and Walking with Dinosaurs.
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BBC TV was renamed BBC One in 1964, following the launch of BBC Two, the third highest rated channel in England (ITV was second). Fire at Battersea power station causes widespread outage electricity over London, which delayed the launch of the channel, scheduled for April 20, 1964. Therefore, the opening of the channel took place by candlelight. BBC Two was the first British channel to broadcast in the ultra-high frequency range. The whole world knows the created data trust David Attenborough's programs: Life on Earth, The Private Life of Plants, Blue Planet and planet Earth. In 1967 BBC Two became the first channel in Europe, broadcasting television programs in color (BBC One and ITV only began broadcasting in color in November 1969).
In 1974, the BBC introduced the first teletext system, Ceefax, a network television service providing the transmission of text and simple images. In 1988 the External Service was renamed the BBC World Service.
Today the BBC owns two broadcast and three cable television channels. In addition, it includes 14 national digital radio stations, two Internet sites and 40 magazines. Domestically, the BBC has 20 different television channels, including a 24-hour news channel - BBC News.
The BBC is governed by a board of directors (12 people) and a director general, who are appointed by the Queen on behalf of the government. Financially, the BBC World Service was supported by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, but in October 2010 it relieved itself of these responsibilities, transferring the BBC to the main balance sheet of the British Broadcasting Corporation. The legal basis for the organization's activities is the charter - the charter in accordance with which the British Broadcasting Corporation exists. The current Charter came into force in 2007 and will expire at the end of 2016. The document fully recognizes the BBC's editorial independence and defines the public purpose, role and structure of the corporation. In addition, the charter outlines the BBC's core values:
1.Trust is the foundation of the BBC; we are independent, impartial and honest.
2.The audience is at the center of everything we do.
3.We are proud of our quality work.
4.Creativity is the life and blood of our organization.
5.We respect everyone and give everyone the opportunity to do what they do best.
6.We are one BBC: when we work together we can do a lot.
The BBC currently broadcasts in 32 languages. The BBC's latest global audience survey (May 2007) puts it at 183 million listeners per week. About 37.6 million of this number listen to the BBC in English. The World Service's main residence is Bush House. It received this name in honor of the man who built it, Irving Bush, who is the owner of the New York company Bush Terminal. The BBC's mission is to enrich people's lives with programs and services that inform, educate and entertain, and to be the world's most creative organisation.
The satellite era for the BBC began in 1991, when it was loudly trumpeted to the whole world on the pay TV channel for Europe and Asia. On April 15, 1992, transmissions to Africa began. The strategic goal was then chosen to create a global BBC channel, which was implemented in 1993. The program produced in London consisted mainly of a mixture of existing BBC television programmes. In the evenings, the BBC World Service provided a half-hour news bulletin with weather and financial information. The rest of the program consisted of television features, theater programs, light entertainment music, sports and children's programs, chronicles and news. BBC Worldwide television (the main commercial arm of the BBC) is responsible for all that relates to the BBC's commercial and international television activities. It is the largest international broadcast operator and a leading distributor and co-producer of BBC programmes. BBC Worldwide television was created in May 1994 by merging the television arm of BBC Enterprises and the business channel BBC World Service television.
In 1994-95, BBC Worldwide produced over 14,500 hours of programming in over 80 countries, which made the BBC Europe's largest exporter of television programmes; the most famous of them were “Great White Shark”, “Mid March”, “Absolutely Incredible”.
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BBC Worldwide television has dedicated teams specializing in their respective program areas, working with the BBC's Production Department, independent producers and eight overseas offices. These commands define politics investments, market analysis and commercial strategy for key programs with subsequent possible licensing at the international level. In 1994-95 alone, 111 cooperation agreements were concluded with broadcasting organizations 14 countries, the value of BBC Worldwide television transactions at the Cannes festival (MIPTV Program Market) reached 15.4 million pounds. BBC Worldwide television has overseas offices in New York, Los Angeles, Toronto, Sydney, Hong Kong, Tokyo, Paris and Cologne, which represent the interests of BBC Worldwide television outside England. In January 1995, BBC World Service Televisions (news and information channel) was renamed BBC World and partially reorganized for a European launch. The new channel was merged with BBC Prime (now BBC Entertainment), and the main TV channels and BBC World Service Televisions programs were relaunched.
The BBC has access to the largest libraries of film and video materials, BBC Librares Sales licenses extracts and special selections of film and video materials to users around the world. Since July 25, 2005, the BBC channel management has introduced internal censorship. From now on, the BBC stopped showing scenes of extreme cruelty. To achieve this, all live broadcasts, in particular those that may contain scenes of cruelty, began to be broadcast with a delay of several seconds. This time allows us to cut out all episodes of violence that a special commission will identify.
World Service has repeatedly said that it cannot afford to stand still, therefore, in order to keep up with technological changes, it constantly updates its list of services and modernizes old services. In 2006, the BBC launched a public test broadcast of high-definition television - HD. The BBC HD channel is broadcast 24 hours a day on terrestrial television in Britain, as well as from the Astra 2D satellite. On November 3, 2010, the BBC launched another high-definition channel - BBC One HD, the BBC's second HD channel. And in 2012, the BBC will broadcast broadcasts from the London Olympics only in HD format.
In July 2007, the BBC began providing a new service, currently only available to residents of England. iPlayer is an easy-to-use gadget that allows you to access TV programs via your computer. Thanks to it, you can watch TV programs from the last seven days, as well as listen to both live and recorded radio programs.
Residents of the United Kingdom of Great Britain access TV programs via iPlayer for free; they are offered in high quality and without advertising. Once a TV or radio program is downloaded to a computer, the user has 30 days to start watching it and seven days to finish it. In the same year, the British Broadcasting Corporation BBC launched a new service - Internet access via TV. If successful, this state corporation could become one of the leading speculators in the Internet access market.
In 2009, the BBC created a new digital communications department. This is due to the fact that the BBC is showing interest in digital broadcasting through satellite and digital services, in addition, the digital television audience is growing rapidly. The head of the new department was Paul Elmond, who previously headed Air Force Vision. In the same year, the BBC launched a new service - broadcasting its television programs to mobile phones. Viewers can watch programs from channels such as BBC One, BBC Four, CBeebies and BBC News.
In March 2010, the BBC provided several high-budget documentaries to the Ukrainian entertainment channel TVi.
In 2010, the corporation decided to expand its field of activity and open its own animation studio. At the moment, management is looking for a suitable location for a new unit. BBC animators will work to produce content for both adults and the firm's younger audiences. To do this, two BBC divisions specializing in the production of entertainment and children's programs will combine their efforts to create the studio. The formation of the new division will be completed at the beginning of 2011.
The BBC manages to combine classic plays, fresh, new comedies, true stories, educational and children's programs, live concerts, new music, religious programs. And this has been going on for a long time, especially in Britain, but it also attracts audiences in many other countries.
Over the past 2 years, the BBC has saved a total of £200 million through effective implementations and innovations. The BBC will use these funds to create new programs and invest in new digital technologies to make the organization's output even more effective and competitive.
BBC is the proper name for market television and radio programs. 95% of homes in the United Kingdom watch and listen to BBC programs every week, costing 3.7 per hour per subscriber. The response to BBC programs is enormous. The BBC's commercial activities bring in annual 'fees' of £72 million - a successful business by any standard - but even that is small compared to the $1.7 billion it receives and spends each year on all things licensing and broadcasting rights. .BBC places great emphasis on listening to viewers and listeners during programs for the sake of communication and, of course, exploring the ideas that audiences expect from the channel. The BBC is interested in its audience to satisfy its creative ambitions.
Teletext of BBC channels is quite diverse and easy to use. Traditionally, page 100 offers a menu for the main sections. On the pages of BBC World teletext you can find messages from the hot spots of the planet, news from the regions hostilities, and right there, along with them, a completely serious message like “is there life on Mars” about scientists’ research. Sports fans will be interested in the results of European cup football matches, news from the tennis courts, as well as competition results and data on rugby, motorsports, athletics, equestrian sports, boxing, golf and cricket. The Sport Diary section offers announcements of upcoming sporting events. A fairly large section is devoted to finance and economics. Here you can find out the current ratios of world currencies, prices for metals and on various exchanges, indices, economic news, and much more in the field of financial market.
BBC radio stations
BBC radio 1: aimed at youth audiences, conveys contemporary pop and rock music (including top 40 most popular singles), news, live studio performances and concerts, music documentaries
BBC radio 3: arts and culture, music of interest (classical, jazz), news, live studio performances and concerts, music documentaries
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