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The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster headquartered at Broadcasting House in London, England. Originally established in 1922 as the British Broadcasting Company, it evolved into its current state with its current name on New Year's Day 1927. The oldest and largest local and global broadcaster by stature and by number of employees, the BBC employs over 21,000 staff in total, of whom approximately 17,900 are in public-sector broadcasting.[3][4][5][6][7]

This article is about the public service broadcaster. For its forerunner/predecessor, see British Broadcasting Company. For other uses, see BBC (disambiguation).

Company type

18 October 1922 (1922-10-18) (as British Broadcasting Company)
1 January 1927 (1927-01-01) (as British Broadcasting Corporation)

Worldwide

Increase £5.330 billion (2022)[3]

Decrease £124 million (2022)[3]

Decrease £206 million (2022)[3]

Increase £3.414 billion (2022)[3]

Decrease 21,281 (2022)[3]

The BBC was established under a royal charter,[8] and operates under an agreement with the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport.[9] Its work is funded principally by an annual television licence fee[10] which is charged to all British households, companies, and organisations using any type of equipment to receive or record live television broadcasts or to use the BBC's streaming service, iPlayer.[11] The fee is set by the British Government, agreed by Parliament,[12] and is used to fund the BBC's radio, TV, and online services covering the nations and regions of the UK. Since 1 April 2014, it has also funded the BBC World Service (launched in 1932 as the BBC Empire Service), which broadcasts in 28 languages and provides comprehensive TV, radio, and online services in Arabic and Persian.


Some of the BBC's revenue comes from its commercial subsidiary BBC Studios (formerly BBC Worldwide), which sells BBC programmes and services internationally and also distributes the BBC's international 24-hour English-language news services BBC News, and from BBC.com, provided by BBC Global News Ltd.[13][14] In 2009, the company was awarded the Queen's Award for Enterprise in recognition of its international achievements in business.[15]


Since its formation in 1922, the BBC has played a prominent role in British life and culture.[16] It is sometimes informally referred to as the Beeb or Auntie.[17][18]

Content, headed by is in charge of the corporation's television channels including the commissioning of programming.

Charlotte Moore

Nations and Regions, headed by Rhodri Talfan Davies is responsible for the corporation's divisions in , Northern Ireland, Wales, and the English Regions.

Scotland

£3.690 billion in licence fees collected from householders;

£1.199 billion from the BBC's commercial businesses and government grants some of which will cease in 2020

BBC's first three-box logo used from 1958 until 1963[234]

BBC's first three-box logo used from 1958 until 1963.

BBC's second three-box logo used from 1963 until 1971[235]

BBC's second three-box logo used from 1963 until 1971.

BBC's third three-box logo used from 1971 until 1988[235]

BBC's third three-box logo used from 1971 until 1988.

BBC's fourth three-box logo used from 1988 until 1998[236]

BBC's fourth three-box logo used from 1988 until 1997.

BBC's fifth three-box logo used from 1997 to 2021[236][237]

BBC's fifth three-box logo used since 1997.

BBC's sixth and current three-box logo used since 2021[237]

BBC's sixth and current three-box logo used since 2021.

Gaelic broadcasting in Scotland

The Green Book (BBC)

List of BBC television channels and radio stations

List of companies based in London

List of television programmes broadcast by the BBC

List of BBC podcasts

Prewar television stations

Public service broadcasting in the United Kingdom

Quango

Television in the United Kingdom

All pages with titles beginning with BBC

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Official website

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BBC companies