bbc

BBC stands for the British Broadcasting Corporation, the national media company for the United Kingdom.

The BBC has been in existence since 1922 when a group of companies decided to band together to launch their first radio station, known as 2LO, from Marconi, England. From those tiny beginnings, the BBC has used the decades since to grow into the largest broadcasting corporation in the entire world, offering a dedicated TV news channel, online information portals, original programming, and world broadcasting services to dozens of countries, reaching hundreds of millions of viewers and listeners.

The British Broadcasting Corporation also provides subscription and non-subscription Interactive Digital TV services, allowing users to find relevant news, sports, and information going on at that moment in time.

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  The ad features a cigarette that grows a tumor while it's smoked, to demonstrate what happens inside a smoker's body over time.
  by dopodomani / on Dec 29, 2012
• in Entertainment
  Dark and Cruel, The Crimson Petal and the White Is Sensational British Costume Drama
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  by missbobetier / on Oct 8, 2012
• in Technology
  BBC to Launch a Music Product Equivalent of the iPlayer
  Rumours surface that the BBC is to launch a musical equivalent of its popular iPlayer service
  by cmimanagers / on Oct 3, 2012

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “bbc”

 

• Doors co-founder Ray Manzarek dies

  
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  Ray Manzarek, keyboardist and founder member of the 1960s rock band The Doors, dies aged 74 in Germany after a long battle with cancer. BBC News – Home
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• 5th Doctor Time on DOCTOR WHO: DOCTORS REVISITED

  
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  All right class, it’s time for the next installment of Doctor Who: Doctors Revisited and this time we’re on to Peter Davidson , the fifth Doctor. Peter Davidson’s Doctor was completely enable to resist a cricket game and kept a piece of celery in his lapel to test chemicals in the air. Synopsis Take an ...
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• Doctor Who Will Launch An 8th Season

  
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  The BBC knows a good thing when they see it. Case in point, the wildly popular sci-fi series, Doctor Who has been officially renewed to come on back for an exciting 8th season. This isn’t the only news wrapped up in the long running series’ bag of goodies either. Buzz has also reached a fever pitch regarding the ...
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• Tumblr ‘will boost Yahoo revenue’

  
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  Yahoo says its $ 1.1bn (£723m) purchase of blogging platform Tumblr will boost its revenue as soon as 2014. BBC News – Home
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• Medical Abbreviations Explained by Mobile App

  
  The Doctor Weighs In — Authority: 145
  By Rhona Finkel First Posted at HealthWorks Collective on 5/20/2013 Does this happen to you? Do you ever find something–something unusual, that perhaps no one else wants–and think to yourself, “Where have you been my whole life?” Well, anyone who has followed my love affair with mobile health apps will ...
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• BBC Makes Series 8 Officially Official

  
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  We fans already knew as much, thanks to Steven Moffat and Matt Smith, but the BBC finally formally announced that there will be an eighth series of DOCTOR WHO along with a 2013 Christmas Special. The Beeb made the announcement on its website: “We’re delighted to confirm a new series of Doctor Who has been […]
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• Ofcom Plan Live TV Subtitle Delay

  
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  UK media regulatory body Ofcom have recently proposed a shake-up to the way that live TV displays subtitles, claiming that a mandatory delay period could be a method implemented in order to lessen the possibility of error. The system would be one only made to ‘improve the quality’ of the broadcasting service, ...
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• #MusicMonday – Daft Punk BBC Essential Mix (1997)

  
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  The new Daft Punk album is fire.  Pure FIYA.  Summer is about to begin and this release is loaded with disco/funk goodness that’ll make you feel good all over. In this addition of Music Monday, we take a trip back to 1997 with Daft Punk’s BBC Essential mix, a collection of jams that pave the way for this ...
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• Dispatches from Ladyblogland: Ladies Are So Disappointing

  
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  Dudes were so disappointed in us ladies this week. Here we are, getting our boobs removed, posing in all our regular-lady glory, and being on the Internet. Heaven forbid! The annotated wisdom of Amy Poehler. Splitsider What teens actually think of Plan B. Jezebel The “plus-size” H&M model from that ...
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• Ethiopia: Pm Hailemariam’s interview with BBC (Video)

  
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  BBC’s George Alagiah asked PM Hailemariam: * Where did African governments economic intervention went wrong in the past? * Whether Hailemariam would choose the American or the Chinese model of development? * What is the role of gov’t? * What is the role of the private sector? * What hailemariam has to say about ...
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• The Big News of the Week

  
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  The Royal Horticultural Society has temporarily lifted a ban on garden gnomes - normally deemed too "tacky" - at the Chelsea Flower Show. Garden historian Twigs Way charts the publics long love-hate relationship with these figurines.
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• Behind the Scenes Interview on the Set of the DOCTOR WHO 50th ANNIVERSARY EPISODE

  
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  Hopefully by now you’ve already seen the amazing Season Finale for Doctor Who (if you haven’t, don’t worry, no spoilers here). Such a great episode to end the season, which you may or may not have known was released to a few lucky preorder recipients in the US by mistake a few weeks ago. It was a precarious ...
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• BBC renews ‘Doctor Who’ for season eight

  
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  BBC renews ‘Doctor Who’ for season eight via Rickey.org Credit: BBC The Doctor will be continuing his travels through time and space. BBC has ordered an eighth season of Doctor Who , one of its most popular series. The renewal was a foregone conclusion, given its 50th Anniversary this year (to say ...
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• Apprentice Masters Sugar and Trump Battle on Twitter

  
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  From the amount of money they have each made and both being the 66-year-old faces of popular TV shows which are identical in nature (and under the same brand), it would be assumed that American entrepreneur and Celebrity Apprentice ‘boss’ Donald Trump would be on good terms with his English counterpart Lord ...
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• Checking BBC-propagated untruths about checkpoints

  
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  We recently discussed the May 9 th 2013 edition of BBC Radio 4′s ‘Today’ programme in which veteran anti-Israel campaigner Ghada Karmi was given more or less free rein to propagate a collection of untruths and defamation. Among Karmi’s many deliberately misleading statements was the following: “The ...
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• Cambodia factory accident injures 23

  
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  A collapsing structure injured 23 workers on Monday at a Cambodian factory producing garments for a top Western brand, police said, the latest incident to raise concerns about regional industrial safety. At least 23 workers were injured at a Cambodian factory that produced garments for a top Western brand on Monday, ...
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• BBC told to improve online local news

  
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  Review by the BBC Trust says web services have improved, but coverage of regional news is not particularly comprehensive • Click here to read the BBC Trust report The BBC has been told to up the standard of its online local news and look to mine more personal data from users of its website network, but ...
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• Race + TV: Four Summer Shows From Across The Pond

  
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  I’m not luring you in here to tell you to watch Doctor Who or Sherlock, you have my word. By Kendra James Upfronts are done, premiere schedules are set, Stefon and Seth ran off into the sunset, and even though it’s only May it feels like we’re already halfway through the summer blockbuster set list, so ...
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• ‘Doctor Who’ Was Renewed For Another Season. Let’s Celebrate With Some Timely GIFs.

  
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  The series seven finale of Doctor Who aired this weekend. We’ll refrain from spoiling it, but there’s an excellent recap here . And though we won’t be getting more Doctor Who until the 50th anniversary special airs November 23rd, we have some good news. The BBC announced they’ve picked it up for an ...
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• The Unexplained Liberal Lie …

  
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  BBC: Unexplained ‘standstill’ in ‘global warming’ — since 1998! Well imagine that, real data does not have unexplained in it’s context. It only explains the lies. And the lie is man caused global warming is a lie, the data has spoken. We they right in the 70s when they said the next ice age is coming? ...
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