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| Company type | Division |
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| Industry | Television |
| Headquarters | Broadcasting House, London MediaCityUK, Salford |
Area served | Worldwide |
| Services | Television broadcasting |
| Parent | BBC |
| Website | BBC iPlayer |
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BBC Television is a service of the BBC. The corporation has operated a public broadcast television service in the United Kingdom, under the terms of a royal charter, since 1927. It produced television programmes from its own studios from 1932, although the start of its regular service of television broadcasts is dated to 2 November 1936.[2]
The BBC's domestic television channels have no commercial advertising and collectively they accounted for more than 30% of all UK viewing in 2013.[3] The services are funded by a television licence.
As a result of the 2016 Licence Fee settlement, the BBC Television division was split, with in-house television production being separated into a new division called BBC Studios and the remaining parts of television (channels and genre commissioning, BBC Sport and BBC iPlayer) being renamed BBC Content.[4]
- ^ Nick Higham, 60 years since 'bat's wings' became first BBC TV symbol, BBC News, December 2, 2013.
- ^ Radio Times – The Journal of the BBC, issue dated 27 October 1957: The 21st Anniversary of BBC Television
- ^ "Total viewing summary Oct 7 – Oct 13 2013". BARB. Archived from the original on 17 October 2013. Retrieved 27 October 2013.
% viewer-ship of all TV viewing: BBC1 (20.2), BBC2 (5.8), BBC3 (1.4), BBC4 (1.0), CBBC (0.6), Cbeebies (1.2), BBC News (1.0) = 31.2% of total viewer minutes relative to all other channels
- ^ "Who we are and how we commission". BBC. Archived from the original on 25 November 2016. Retrieved 19 November 2016.