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Portal. : BBC/Intro. " Nation shall speak peace unto nation. The British Broadcasting Corporation ( BBC) is a British public service broadcaster headquartered at Broadcasting House in London, England. Originally established in 1922 as the British Broadcasting Company, it evolved into its current state with its current name on New Year's Day 1927.
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Male presenters pay cut. It became known on 26 January 2018 that some of the BBC's leading male presenters would take a pay cut. According to the BBC's media editor Amol Rajan, Huw Edwards, John Humphrys, Nick Robinson, Jon Sopel and Jeremy Vine, have agreed to a salary reduction. Nicky Campbell, radio 5 live presenter, also told his listeners ...
BBC News Online. 27 December 2006 - Death of Lord Hussey. Former BBC Chairman Lord Marmaduke Hussey has died aged 83. Appointed Chairman in 1986, his tenure involved the BBC facing accusations of holding a liberal left-wing bias as well as being an appointee of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher to "sort out" the corporation.
The Local Democracy Reporting Service (LDRS) is an initiative in the United Kingdom funded by the BBC. The scheme pays for the employment of journalists by local independent news outlets, in order to improve the coverage of issues relating to local democracy .
From 1942, American troops also received their own broadcasts on the service; popular American variety programming, such as Charlie McCarthy, The Bob Hope Show, and The Jack Benny Program, appeared on the BBC for the first time. The British benefited from wartime co-operation only had to pay $60 for The Bob Hope Show, which cost $12,000 to produce.
On 10 October 2005, the BBC Latin American Service officially changed its name to BBC Mundo, the BBC's service for the Spanish-speaking world. It is part of BBC World Service. The website offers news, information, and analysis in text, audio, and video. BBC Mundo has its headquarters on the fifth floor of the BBC's New Broadcasting House in London.
The director-general of the British Broadcasting Corporation is chief executive and (from 1994) editor-in-chief of the BBC . The post-holder was formerly appointed by the Board of Governors of the BBC (for the period 1927 to 2007) and then the BBC Trust (from 2007 to 2017). Since 2017 the director-general has been appointed by the BBC Board .