2. WHAT IS BBC TELEVSION
BBC Television is a service of the British
Broadcasting Corporation. The corporation, which
has operated in the United Kingdom under the terms
of a Royal Charter since 1927, has produced
television.
The BBC operates several television networks,
television stations (although there is generally very
little distinction between the two terms in the UK),
and related programming services in the United
Kingdom. As well as being a broadcaster, the
corporation also produces a large number of its own
programmed in-house, thereby ranking as one of the
world's largest television production companies.
3. TYPES OF TELEVISION
BROADCASTING
ï‚— Terrestrial television
ï‚— Closed-circuit television
ï‚— Outside broadcasting
ï‚— BBC One
ï‚— BBC Two.
ï‚— BBC Three.
ï‚— BBC Four.
ï‚— BBC One HD BBC Two HD. BBC News. BBC Parliament,
ï‚— Parliament, Scottish Parliament, Welsh Assembly,
ï‚— Northern Ireland Assembly.
ï‚— CBBC
ï‚— CBeebies
4. PUBLIC SERVICE TELEVISION-THE
BBC
ï‚— In the UK the term "public service broadcasting" refers to
broadcasting which is intended for the public and will benefit
rather than for purely commercial concerns. The
communications regulator.
ï‚— S4C Although this Welsh language channel is not operated by
the Corporation, the BBC contributes programmed funded by
the license fee as part of its public service obligation. The BBC
used to broadcast Welsh-language programmed on its own
channels in Wales, but these were transferred to S4C when it
started broadcasting in 1982. BBC
ï‚— Alba A part-time Scottish Gaelic digital-only channel. Although
it carries the BBC name, it is a partnership between the BBC
and MG Alba, with the majority of funding coming from the
Scottish Government via MG Alba.
5. INTERENATIONALTELEVSION-
THE BBC
ï‚— The BBC is forbidden under its charter to directly undertake
any commercial operations on-air within the United Kingdom,
however no such restriction applies to operations in other
countries. Therefore the BBC exploits its massive television
archive by operating a number of commercial television
channels outside the UK through its BBC Worldwide
subsidiary.
ï‚— Some channels are wholly owned by BBC Worldwide, others
are operated as joint ventures with other broadcasters.
ï‚— An international, commercially-funded twenty-four hour news
channel, not officially available to UK viewers but is shown on
BBC News/BBC One/BBC Two between 1am-5.30am and two
editions 11:30am-12:00pm on BBC Two/ 19:00-19:30 on BBC
Four.
6. THE LOCALTELEVISION-THE
BBC
ï‚— BBC News provides trusted World and UK news as well as local
and regional perspectives. Also entertainment, business,
science, technology and health news and more.
7. BBC WORLD WIDE THE BBC
ï‚— The BBC's wholly owned commercial subsidiary, BBC Worldwide, also
operates several international television channels under BBC
branding:
ï‚— BBC America A US general entertainment channel, co-owned with
Discovery Networks, showcasing British television programming.
BBC Canada A Canadian general entertainment channel, co-owned
with Shaw Media.
8. THE REGIONS TELEVISONS- THE
BBC
ï‚— BBC Regions is the division of the BBC responsible for local television,
radio, web and teletext services in England. It is one of the BBC's four
'Nations' - the others being BBC Scotland, BBC Wales and BBC
Northern Ireland.The division is made up of 12 separate regions.
ï‚— BBC North East and Cambria
BBC North West
BBC Yorkshire
BBC Yorkshire and Lincolnshire
BBC East Midlands
BBC West Midlands
BBC East
BBC West
BBC South
BBC London
BBC South East
BBC South West
9. THE DIGITALTELEVISON-THE
BBC
ï‚— This service allows BBC viewers to view textual information
such as the latest news on their television. CEEFAX has not
made a full transition to digital television
ï‚— CEEFAX was the world's first teletext information service. It
was started by the BBC in 1974, and ran regularly filling BBC
Two's overnight schedule as Pages from CEEFAX
10. THE LICENCES FEE TELEVISION-
THE BBC
The United Kingdom and the Crown Dependencies, any
household watching or recording live television transmissions as
they are being broadcast (terrestrial, satellite, cable, or internet) is
required to hold a television license. Since 1 April 2010 the annual
license fee has been £145.50 for colour and £49.00 for black and
white. Income from the license is primarily used to fund the
television, radio and online services of the BBC. The total income
from license fees was £3.6562 billion in 2012–13of which £597.3
million or 16.3% was provided by the Government through
concessions for those over the age of 75. Thus, the license fee
made up the bulk of the BBC's total income of £5.102 billion in
2012-2013.
The BBC Trust gives the following information for expenditure of
license fee income during the year 2009-10 of £3.56 billion
(expressed here in percentage terms):
66% – All TV
17% – National and local radio
6% – Online e.g. BBC websites, I Player
11% – Other e.g. transmission and license fee collection costs*
11. TV LICENCES
ï‚— television license (or broadcast receiving license) is official
permission required in many countries for the reception of
television broadcasts, or the possession of a television set. The
license is sometimes also required to own a radio or receive
radio broadcasts. A TV license is generally a hypothecated tax
for the purpose of funding public broadcasting, thus allowing
public broadcasters to transmit television programmed without,
or with only supplemental, funding from radio and television
advertisements. However, in some cases the balance between
public funding and advertisements is the opposite
12. ADVANTAGES AND
DISADVANTAGES TV LICENCES
ï‚— The advantages of an TV licenses that you get to watch ant
channels in the tele and get some good channels or show.
ï‚— But the disadvantages of and TV licenses that you have to pay
every month to get more TV channels and also there wont be
enough audience too.
13. WHAT ELSE DOES THE BBC TV OWN-
THE BBC TELEVISION
ï‚— BBC America
ï‚— BBC Canada
ï‚— BBC HD
ï‚— BBC Kids
ï‚— A Canadian children's programming channel co-owned with
Shaw Media.
ï‚— BBC Entertainment
ï‚— BBC Lifestyle
ï‚— BBC Knowledge
ï‚— BBC UKTV
ï‚— BBC, Talkback Thames, ITV and Channel 4.
ï‚— UKT
ï‚— BBC archive
ï‚— BBC Persian
ï‚— News chinel
ï‚— BBC Japan