BBC

The is a British public service broadcaster founded in 1922. Its headquarters are at Broadcasting House in Westminster, London, and it is the world's oldest national broadcasting organisation. Besides the UK, it is the most well-known public broadcaster in the world, with a worldwide presence.
==1958–1963==
The first incarnation of the BBC "blocks" logo was created in 1958. This logo consisted of square boxes with "BBC" in italics inside them. In 1953, Abram Games was commissioned to design an on-air image.
==1963–1992==
On 30 September 1963, the boxes were also made slanted like the letters. This type of logo would go on captions at the end of productions as well as on cameras and other equipment. 1964 saw the creation of both of its channels BBC1 and BBC2, with the distinctive horizontal stripes across the screen. This logo and the 1971 logo continued to be used alongside the next logo until 27 December 1992.
==1971–1992==
In 1971, a new logo was made by rounding off the boxes, making the spaces between them larger. A corporate identity was getting more and more essential to ensuring that the audience knew it was authentic and that the quality programmes they were watching could be attributed to the BBC. This logo and the 1963 logo continued to be used alongside the next logo until 27 December 1992.
==1988–1998==
In May 1988, the BBC launched yet another new logo, designed by Michael Peters. The logo was modified by sharpening up the parallelogram edges again and set to an angle of 17 degrees without reducing the size of the spaces between the boxes. The text was also sharpened up to make it match the clarity of the logo itself - the typeface used was Helvetica Neue. Also, under-logo lines were added for the first time. These lines were coloured blue, red, and green to reflect the flags of Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland, as well as the three phosphors of colour television. Despite the 1997 rebrand, this logo continued to be used as an in-credit logo and with the BBC Radio Clwyd logo until the radio station eventually shut down in August 1998.
==1997–2021==
On 4 October 1997, in honour of the corporation's 75th anniversary, the BBC launched a new logo and corporate identity, designed by Martin Lambie-Nairn. All its channels and services introduced a new logo scheme on that day, consisting of the BBC logo and the service name in one line. At the same time, its terrestrial channels BBC1 and BBC2 were also renamed as BBC One and BBC Two. 
The three lines of the 1988 logo were removed from the logo, and the boxes and letters were also straightened up, making the boxes look similar to the 1958 logo. The typeface used is Gill Sans, made by Eric Gill in 1926. By 2002, most services were using a different design with the logo and name on top of each other in a box. This logo is the longest-lived in the history of the BBC, having been used for 24 years until the partial 2021 rebrand.
Since 2017, the BBC has been slowly replacing Gill Sans with BBC Reith Sans and Serif, with the first being BBC Sport, followed by BBC Alba, BBC Studios after its merger with BBC Worldwide, then BBC Two's rebranding, then BBC Scotland's channel launch, then BBC News, the news channel, BBC World News, and most recently, BBC Radio and BBC Local Radio. Although BBC Four continued to use Gill Sans in the logo until 2021.
Although the BBC launched its new logo in October 2021 (see below), this logo continues to be used on some other BBC properties in 2024 such as BBC Parliament (Channel).
==2021–present==
In 2021, it was revealed that the BBC was planning on rolling out a refresh of the Lambie-Nairn logo. The iconic boxes are subtly squared up and spaced outwards. The new lettering is in BBC Reith, the BBC's proprietary font, introduced in 2017 and designed by Dalton Maag. The rebranding was soft-launched in early 2021 in the BBC News beta app, and internationally through BBC Studios's streaming service BBC Select in North America, and BBC Kids in Australia.
The BBC and its main terrestrial channels including BBC One rebranded on 20 October, as well as its radio station BBC Radio 1, which began using this logo on 2 November, replacing the Gill Sans logo after 24 years. BBC News also rebranded to include the Reith Sans logo on 25 April 2022, and CBBC and CBeebies rebranded to use the new logo on 15 March 2023. Despite this, BBC Parliament still uses the Gill Sans logo (see above).
*Back the BBC on Twitter - 5 October 2021
*BBC reveals new logos in modern makeover - BBC News, 19 October 2021
*BBC Press Office on Twitter - 19 October 2021
*BBC reveals new logos in modernisation push - Design Week, 20 October 2021
*BBC - Brand Refresh | D&AD Awards 2022 Shortlist | Brand Refresh | D&AD
*BBC Creative - BBC Reith Font - Internal Comms Campaign
*BBC Reith - SPIN
*Dalton Maag | Work | BBC Reith
==BBC Coat of Arms==
===1927–1988===
Shortly after receiving its first Royal Charter in 1927, the BBC was granted its own armorials by the College of Arms.
The British lion forms the 'crest' of the arms, and the thunderbolt it holds is a heraldic way of representing broadcasting. The eagles form the 'supporters', and represent speed, while the bugles they wear round their necks symbolize public proclamation.
On the shield is the globe surrounded by seven stars, which represent the other seven planets in the Solar System and hence reflect the scope and breadth of the Corporation. Finally, the motto, "Nation shall speak peace unto nation", is based on verses from the Old Testament (Micah 4:3 and Isaiah 2:4).
===1988–present===
An updated Coat of Arms was introduced with the underlined BBC logo (see above) in 1988, retaining all the properties of the original arms but making them appear more defined.
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