The British Broadcasting Corporation was founded on the 18th of October 1922, 99 years ago, in London.
Their revenue is around £5 billion a year, mostly from tv licences.
The British Broadcasting Corporation was founded by the British government and is intended as a neutral company, however, this is not always true.
The British Broadcasting Corporation is based around the globe, giving news in many countries. They own many divisions in radio, music, weather, films and sport. Also providing education platforms.
They produce many famous programs such as Eastenders, and documentaries by Sir David Attenborough.
The British Broadcasting Corporation barely advertises in the United Kingdom, as everyone knows who they are, they focus their advertising outside the United Kingdom, pushing their global services.
They hold some significant events such as BBC Radio 1's Big Weekend, which help promotes their products and artists, and new music, bringing in big crowds.
The British Broadcasting Corporation uses horizontal and vertical integration to produce their programming, ensuring their products get views and are published by their correct divisions.
91% of adults in the United Kingdom watch or have watched The BBC in their lifetime.
They have over 22 thousand employees, all working within the divisions, their control head is a chairman, Richard Sharp being a publicly owned company.
Britain's first live public broadcast was made from Marconi's Wireless Telegraph Company factory in Chelmsford in June 1920.
Television broadcasting was suspended from the 1st of September 1939 to the 7th of June 1946, during the second world war, and it was left to The BBC radio broadcasters such as Reginald Foort to keep the nation's spirits up.
During the world war, Winston Churchill delivered 33 major wartime speeches on BBC Radio, helping save many lives.
There was a reported urban myth when The BBC restarted service after the war, an announcer called Leslie Mitchell started by saying "As I was saying before we were so rudely interrupted" and it was widely reported.
Starting in 1964, many pirate radio stations came on air and finally forced the British Government to regulate radio services to permit nationally based advertising-financed services. In response, the BBC named their radio channels.
In 2002, many television and radio channels were recognised, the BBC knowledge was replaced by BBC four and became the BBC arts and documentaries channel. CBBC had been a programming strand as children's BBC since 1985 was split into CBBC and CBeebies, for the younger children. With both services going to a digital channel.
The next couple of years resulted in the moving of channels to create a bigger brand. In 2003, BBC Choice was replaced by BBC Three, with programming intended for younger adults and real-life documentaries, BBC News 24 became the BBC news channel in 2008, and BBC Radio 7 became BBC radio 4 extra in 2011.
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