Television service of the British Broadcasting Corporation
"BBC Television Service" redirects here. For the flagship BBC channel formerly known as BBC Television Service, see BBC One.
BBC Television
Logo used since 2021
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Division
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Television
Headquarters
Broadcasting House, London MediaCityUK, Salford
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Worldwide
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Television broadcasting
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BBC
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Birmingham
Drama Village
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Pebble Mill Studios (former)
Cardiff
New Broadcasting House, Cardiff
Broadcasting House (former)
Drama Village (Roath Lock)
BBC Hoddinott Hall
Other locations
Broadcasting House, Belfast
Broadcasting House, Bristol
BBC Elstree Centre
MediaCityUK, Salford
Pacific Quay, Glasgow
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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]
^Nick Higham, 60 years since 'bat's wings' became first BBC TV symbol. Archived 31 October 2018 at the Wayback Machine, 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. 2016. Archived from the original on 25 November 2016. Retrieved 19 November 2016.
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