BBC Big Screen

Exchange Square in Manchester during a BBC Big Screen showing of a FIFA World Cup football game.

The BBC Big Screens are 25-square-metre (270 sq ft) LED screens with sound systems situated in prominent locations in city centres in the United Kingdom. The project setting up these screens involved the BBC, LOCOG (London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games), and local councils. The premise on which the screens are operated is as a platform for all, to provide local information, and to allow filmmakers and other visual artists a platform on which to display their work.[1]

There are 21 Big Screens in cities across the UK.[1] Between 2002 and 2013 the BBC operated these screens, but the BBC department to manage the screens centrally closed in 2013 following funding cuts.[2] Since 2013, some of the screens have been decommissioned, and some have been transferred to local authority ownership, where they continue to operate.

  1. ^ a b "BBC Big Screens Website". BBC. Retrieved 7 February 2012.
  2. ^ "BBC and the Big Screens". BBC. 13 September 2012. Retrieved 5 October 2019.