BBC | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2018-12-08

This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
BBC


00:02:00 1 History
00:02:09 1.1 The birth of British broadcasting, 1920 to 1922
00:03:56 1.2 From private company towards public service corporation, 1923 to 1926
00:07:50 1.3 1927 to 1939
00:09:28 1.4 BBC versus other media
00:11:41 1.5 1939 to 2001
00:18:40 1.6 2000 to 2011
00:23:48 1.7 2011 to present
00:25:55 2 Governance and corporate structure
00:26:20 2.1 Charter
00:27:00 2.2 BBC Board
00:27:38 2.3 Executive Committee
00:28:13 2.4 Operational divisions
00:29:41 2.5 Commercial divisions
00:30:46 2.6 MI5 vetting policy
00:32:55 3 Finances
00:33:26 3.1 Revenue
00:38:25 3.2 Expenditure
00:38:52 4 Headquarters and regional offices
00:44:00 5 Technology (Atos service)
00:45:42 6 Services
00:45:51 6.1 Television
00:50:11 6.1.1 Genome Project
00:51:09 6.2 Radio
00:57:26 6.3 News
00:59:15 6.4 Internet
01:03:56 6.5 Interactive television
01:05:08 6.6 Music
01:06:16 6.7 Other
01:07:22 6.8 Ceefax
01:08:25 6.9 BritBox
01:09:17 7 Commercial activities
01:13:34 8 Cultural significance
01:16:27 8.1 Attitudes toward the BBC in popular culture
01:17:43 9 Controversy and criticism
01:20:40 10 Logos and symbols of the BBC
01:20:50 11 See also



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The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters are at Broadcasting House in Westminster, London and it is the world's oldest national broadcasting organisation and the largest broadcaster in the world by number of employees. It employs over 20,950 staff in total, 16,672 of whom are in public sector broadcasting. The total number of staff is 35,402 when part-time, flexible, and fixed-contract staff are included.The BBC is established under a Royal Charter and operates under its Agreement with the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport. Its work is funded principally by an annual television licence fee which is charged to all British households, companies, and organisations using any type of equipment to receive or record live television broadcasts and iPlayer catch-up. The fee is set by the British Government, agreed by Parliament, and 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.
Around a quarter of BBC revenues come from its commercial arm BBC Studios Ltd (formerly BBC Worldwide), which sells BBC programmes and services internationally and also distributes the BBC's international 24-hour English-language news services BBC World News, and from BBC.com, provided by BBC Global News Ltd.
From its inception, through the Second World War (where its broadcasts helped to unite the nation), to the 21st century, the BBC has played a prominent role in British culture. It has also been known as "The Beeb", and "Auntie".