British Broadcasting Corporation

government-owned corporation that broadcasts radio and television programs throughout Great Britain, BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation, which is usually known as the BBC, is the largest broadcasting corporation in the world in terms of audience numbers and of revenue.It has 26,000 employees in the United Kingdom alone and a budget of more than GBP£4 billion.Founded on October 18th, 1922 as the British Broadcasting Company Ltd, it was subsequently granted a Royal Charter and made a state-owned corporation in 1927. The corporation produces programmes and information services, broadcasting globally on television, radio, and the Internet. The stated mission of the BBC is "to inform, educate and entertain"; its motto is "Nation Shall Speak Peace Unto Nation".
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<company> (BBC) The non-commercial UK organisation that commissions, produces, and broadcasts television and radio programmes.
The BBC commissioned the "BBC Micro" from Acorn Computers for use in a television series about using computers. They also have one of the world's most respected news web sites (on which I work!).
BBC Home.
BBC News.
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