BBC – BBC – BBC – BBC – BBC !
You couldn't miss it really, could you?!
The BBC must be one of only a handful of organisations that’s instantly recognised across the world by its initials alone. This is its headquarters, New Broadcasting House in Portland Place, London.
As well as providing radio and television services for the UK, thanks to the BBC World Service its influence stretches across the planet: it broadcasts in more than 40 languages 24 hours a day, and reaches an average of 210 million people a week through radio, television. streaming, mobile phones and the internet.
At home, the BBC not only produces programmes across the spectrum – news, current affairs, comedy, drama, music, documentaries, children's programmes and outside broadcasts, for example – but it also provides an important network of local and regional radio and television services. And through its Children in Need telethons, it raises huge sums of money for under-privileged children – an extraordinary £1.4 billion since 1980, and still counting.
All this, and much more, for a UK licence fee of 43p a day. And no advertising or commercial breaks.
Photograph taken in 2014, before masks and social distancing!
BBC – BBC – BBC – BBC – BBC !
You couldn't miss it really, could you?!
The BBC must be one of only a handful of organisations that’s instantly recognised across the world by its initials alone. This is its headquarters, New Broadcasting House in Portland Place, London.
As well as providing radio and television services for the UK, thanks to the BBC World Service its influence stretches across the planet: it broadcasts in more than 40 languages 24 hours a day, and reaches an average of 210 million people a week through radio, television. streaming, mobile phones and the internet.
At home, the BBC not only produces programmes across the spectrum – news, current affairs, comedy, drama, music, documentaries, children's programmes and outside broadcasts, for example – but it also provides an important network of local and regional radio and television services. And through its Children in Need telethons, it raises huge sums of money for under-privileged children – an extraordinary £1.4 billion since 1980, and still counting.
All this, and much more, for a UK licence fee of 43p a day. And no advertising or commercial breaks.
Photograph taken in 2014, before masks and social distancing!