BBC Television

BBC Television
Company typeDivision
IndustryTelevision
HeadquartersBroadcasting House, London
MediaCityUK, Salford
Area served
Worldwide
ServicesTelevision broadcasting
ParentBBC
Websitebbc.co.uk/iplayer
The "Television Symbol", known informally as the "Bats Wings", was the first BBC Television Service ident. It was created by Abram Games and was used from 1953 to 1960.[1]

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]

  1. ^ Nick Higham, 60 years since 'bat's wings' became first BBC TV symbol, BBC News, December 2, 2013.
  2. ^ Radio Times – The Journal of the BBC, issue dated 27 October 1957: The 21st Anniversary of BBC Television
  3. ^ "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
  4. ^ "Who we are and how we commission". BBC. Archived from the original on 25 November 2016. Retrieved 19 November 2016.

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