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BBC Two

Index BBC Two

BBC Two is the second flagship television channel of the British Broadcasting Corporation in the United Kingdom, Isle of Man and Channel Islands. [1]

179 relations: 'Allo 'Allo!, Absolutely Fabulous, Alan Yentob, Alexandra Palace, Analogue terrestrial television in the United Kingdom, Are You Being Served?, Arkady Raikin, Associated-Rediffusion, Astra 2E, Aubrey Singer, Audio description, Avenir (typeface), Backchat (2013 TV series), Banahaw Broadcasting Corporation, Battersea Power Station, BBC, BBC 2W, BBC Alba, BBC Cymru Wales, BBC English Regions, BBC Four, BBC HD, BBC iPlayer, BBC Learning Zone, BBC News (TV channel), BBC News at Ten, BBC One, BBC One Scotland, BBC Online, BBC Parliament, BBC Red Button, BBC Schools, BBC Scotland, BBC Television, BBC Three, BBC Trust, BBC Two '1991–2001' idents, BBC Two 'Computer Generated 2' ident, BBC Two 'Personality' idents, BBC Two 'Two' ident, BBC Two Northern Ireland, BBC Two Scotland, BBC Two Wales, BBC UK regional TV on satellite, BBC World News, Bergerac (TV series), Boy Meets Girl (2015 TV series), Boys from the Blackstuff, BP, Brian Wenham, ..., British Forces Broadcasting Service, Cagney & Lacey, CBBC, CBBC (TV channel), CBeebies, Ceefax, Channel 4, Channel Islands, Civilisation (TV series), Click (TV programme), Cole Porter, Comic Relief, Community Programme Unit, Cult following, Daily Politics, David Attenborough, Denis Tuohy, Digital television transition, Don't Get Done, Get Dom, Edinburgh International Television Festival, Eir (telecommunications), Electronic program guide, Eric Porter, Freesat, Freeview (UK), Gerald Priestland, Graeme MacDonald, Great Railway Journeys, HARDtalk, Have I Got News for You, Hearing loss, High-definition television, Highbrow, History of BBC television idents, Homes Under the Hammer, IPTV, Isle of Man, ITV (TV network), James Redmond (broadcaster), Jane Root, Janice Hadlow, John Galsworthy, Kangaroo, Kenneth Clark, Kenneth More, Kim Shillinglaw, Kiss Me, Kate, Knowledge building, KPN, Liechtenstein, List of television stations in the United Kingdom, Logo of the BBC, Mark Thompson (media executive), Marsupial, Match of the Day Kickabout, Meerkat Manor, Michael Jackson (TV executive), Michael Peacock (television executive), Ministry of Defence (United Kingdom), Miranda (TV series), National Lottery (United Kingdom), Naxoo, Netherlands, Northern Ireland, NTSC, Numericable, Open Space (TV programme), Open University, Our Friends in the North, PAL, Pilkington Committee on Broadcasting, Play School (UK TV series), Proximus TV, Public broadcasting, Ready Steady Cook, Republic of Ireland, Robin Scott (BBC controller), Roly Keating, Royal Dutch Shell, Russell Howard's Good News, Sans-serif, Sign language, Sky Ireland, Sky UK, Soviet Union, Sport Relief, Standard-definition television, Station identification, Subtitle (captioning), Swisscom, Switzerland, Telenet (Belgium), Television Centre, London, Television channel, Television in the Republic of Ireland, Television licence, Television standards conversion, Telfort, The Alberts, The Ascent of Man, The Culture Show, The Forsyte Saga (1967 series), The Great British Bake Off, The Pink Panther Show, The Proms, The Rockford Files, The Travel Show (TV series), Top Gear (2002 TV series), Torchwood, Trade test colour films, TVPlayer, Ultra high frequency, United Kingdom, UPC Switzerland, Very high frequency, Victoria Derbyshire, Video Nation, Virgin Media, Virgin Media Ireland, Viridian, Wales, WightFibre, XS4ALL, Ziggo, 1080i, 16:9, 1967 Wimbledon Championships, 405-line television system, 576i. Expand index (129 more) »

'Allo 'Allo!

Allo Allo! is a BBC television British sitcom that was first broadcast on BBC One from 1982 to 1992, comprising 85 episodes.

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Absolutely Fabulous

Absolutely Fabulous, also known as Ab Fab, is a BBC sitcom created by, written by and starring Jennifer Saunders.

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Alan Yentob

Alan Yentob (born 11 March 1947) is an English television executive and presenter.

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Alexandra Palace

Alexandra Palace is a Grade II listed entertainment and sports venue in London, located between Muswell Hill and Wood Green.

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Analogue terrestrial television in the United Kingdom

Analogue terrestrial television in the United Kingdom was originally the method by which the significant majority of viewers in the UK, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man received television.

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Are You Being Served?

Are You Being Served? is a British sitcom created and written by executive producer David Croft (Croft also directed some episodes), and Jeremy Lloyd with contributions from Michael Knowles and John Chapman, for the BBC.

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Arkady Raikin

Arkady Isaakovich Raikin (Аркадий Исаакович Райкин; – 17 December 1987) was a Soviet stand-up comedian, theater and film actor, and stage director.

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Associated-Rediffusion

Associated-Rediffusion, later Rediffusion, London, was the British ITV contractor for London and parts of the surrounding counties, on weekdays between 1954 and 29 July 1968.

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Astra 2E

Astra 2E is one of the Astra communications satellites owned and operated by SES, launched to the Astra 28.5°E orbital slot on 30 September 2013 after a 10-week delay caused by rocket launcher problems.

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Aubrey Singer

Aubrey Edward Singer CBE (21 January 1927 – 26 May 2007) was a British broadcasting executive who spent most of his career at the BBC.

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Audio description

Audio description, also referred to as a video description, described video, or more precisely called a visual description, is an additional narration track intended primarily for blind and visually impaired consumers of visual media (including television and film, dance, opera, and visual art).

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Avenir (typeface)

Avenir is a sans-serif typeface designed by Adrian Frutiger and released in 1988 by Linotype GmbH.

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Backchat (2013 TV series)

Backchat with Jack Whitehall and His Dad, or simply Backchat, is a chat show that was originally broadcast on BBC Three but moved to BBC Two for its second series.

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Banahaw Broadcasting Corporation

The Banahaw Broadcasting Corporation (often shortened to BBC) was a Philippine television network that began operations on November 4, 1973 and ceased transmission on March 20, 1986.

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Battersea Power Station

Battersea Power Station is a decommissioned coal-fired power station located on the south bank of the River Thames, in Nine Elms, Battersea, an inner-city district of South West London.

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BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster.

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BBC 2W

BBC 2W was a digital television channel run by the BBC in Wales until January 2009.

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BBC Alba

BBC Alba is a Scottish Gaelic language digital television channel jointly owned by the BBC and MG Alba.

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BBC Cymru Wales

BBC Cymru Wales is a division of the BBC, and the national broadcaster for Wales.

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BBC English Regions

BBC English Regions is the division of the BBC responsible for local and regional television, radio, web, and teletext services in England, the Isle of Man, and the Channel Islands.

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BBC Four

BBC Four is a British television channel operated by the British Broadcasting Corporation and available to digital television viewers on Freeview, IPTV, satellite, and cable.

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BBC HD

BBC HD was a high-definition television channel provided by the BBC.

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BBC iPlayer

BBC iPlayer is an internet streaming, catchup, television and radio service from the BBC.

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BBC Learning Zone

The BBC Learning Zone was an educational strand run by the BBC as an overnight service on BBC Two.

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BBC News (TV channel)

BBC News (also known as the BBC News Channel) is the BBC's 24-hour rolling news television network in the United Kingdom.

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BBC News at Ten

BBC News at Ten formerly known as the BBC Ten O'Clock News or the Ten O'Clock News is the flagship evening news programme, broadcast six nights a week (Sunday to Friday) for British television channel BBC One and the BBC News channel.

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BBC One

BBC One is the flagship television channel of the British Broadcasting Corporation in the United Kingdom, Isle of Man and Channel Islands.

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BBC One Scotland

BBC One Scotland is a television channel operated by BBC Scotland.

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BBC Online

BBC Online, formerly known as BBCi, is the BBC's online service.

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BBC Parliament

BBC Parliament is a British television channel which broadcasts live and recorded coverage of the House of Commons, House of Lords and Select Committees of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, the Scottish Parliament, the London Assembly, the Northern Ireland Assembly and the Welsh Assembly.

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BBC Red Button

BBC Red Button is a branding used for digital interactive television services provided by the BBC, and broadcast in the United Kingdom.

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BBC Schools

BBC Schools, also known as BBC for Schools and Colleges, is the educational programming strand set up by the BBC in 1957, broadcasting a range of educational programmes for children aged 5–16.

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BBC Scotland

BBC Scotland is a division of the BBC and the main public broadcaster in Scotland.

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BBC Television

BBC Television is a service of the British Broadcasting Corporation.

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BBC Three

BBC Three was a British television channel operated by the British Broadcasting Corporation.

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BBC Trust

The BBC Trust was the governing body of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) between 2007 and 2017.

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BBC Two '1991–2001' idents

The BBC Two '1991–2001' idents were broadcast from 16 February 1991 until 19 November 2001, and again since 9 July 2014, on BBC Two in the United Kingdom.

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BBC Two 'Computer Generated 2' ident

The Computer Generated 2 was an ident used by BBC Two between June 1979 and 30 March 1986.

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BBC Two 'Personality' idents

The BBC Two Personality idents were a set of idents used on BBC Two from 19 November 2001 until 18 February 2007.

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BBC Two 'Two' ident

The BBC Two 'Two' ident was the station identification used on BBC2 between 30 March 1986 and 16 February 1991.

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BBC Two Northern Ireland

BBC Two Northern Ireland (BBC Thuaisceart Éireann a Dó) is a television station operated by BBC Northern Ireland.

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BBC Two Scotland

BBC Two Scotland (BBC Dhà Alba) is a television station operated by BBC Scotland.

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BBC Two Wales

BBC Two Wales (BBC Dau Cymru) is the national variation of BBC Two for BBC Cymru Wales.

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BBC UK regional TV on satellite

The BBC broadcasts all of the BBC One and BBC Two regional variations on digital satellite television from the SES Astra satellites at 28.2° east; providing local news programmes and other regional programming with local continuity and presentation for Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales.

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BBC World News

BBC World News is the BBC's international news and current affairs television channel.

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Bergerac (TV series)

Bergerac is a British television series set in Jersey, which ran from 18 October 1981 to 26 December 1991.

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Boy Meets Girl (2015 TV series)

Boy Meets Girl is a BBC Two sitcom starring Rebecca Root, Harry Hepple and Denise Welch.

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Boys from the Blackstuff

Boys from the Blackstuff is a British television drama series of five episodes, originally transmitted from 10 October to 7 November 1982 on BBC2.

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BP

BP plc (stylised as bp), formerly British Petroleum, is a British multinational oil and gas company headquartered in London, England.

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Brian Wenham

Brian George Wenham (9 February 1937 – 8 May 1997) was the controller of BBC Two from 1978 until 1982.

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British Forces Broadcasting Service

The British Forces Broadcasting Service (BFBS) provides radio and television programmes for Her Majesty's Armed Forces, and their dependents worldwide.

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Cagney & Lacey

Cagney & Lacey is an American television series that originally aired on the CBS television network for seven seasons from March 25, 1982 to May 16, 1988.

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CBBC

CBBC (short for Children's BBC) is a British children's television strand owned by the BBC and aimed for children aged from 6 to 12.

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CBBC (TV channel)

CBBC (short for Children's BBC) is a British free-to-air children's television channel operated by the British Broadcasting Corporation.

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CBeebies

CBeebies is a BBC television network for British programming aimed at encouraging "learning through play in a consistently safe environment for children aged 6 or under", and providing "high quality, mostly UK-produced programmes".

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Ceefax

Ceefax was the world's first teletext information service and a forerunner to the current BBC Red Button service.

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Channel 4

Channel 4 is a British public-service television broadcaster that began transmission on 2 November 1982.

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Channel Islands

The Channel Islands (Norman: Îles d'la Manche; French: Îles Anglo-Normandes or Îles de la Manche) are an archipelago in the English Channel, off the French coast of Normandy.

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Civilisation (TV series)

Civilisation—in full, Civilisation: A Personal View by Kenneth Clark—is a television documentary series written and presented by the art historian Kenneth Clark.

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Click (TV programme)

Click (previously Click Online) is a weekly BBC television programme covering news and recent developments in the world of consumer technology, presented by Spencer Kelly.

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Cole Porter

Cole Albert Porter (June 9, 1891 – October 15, 1964) was an American composer and songwriter.

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Comic Relief

Comic Relief is an operating British charity, and an independent sister organization of the United States-based Comic Relief Inc. It was founded in 1985 by the comedy scriptwriter Richard Curtis and comedian Lenny Henry in response to famine in Ethiopia.

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Community Programme Unit

The Community Programme Unit was established by the BBC to help members of the public create programmes to be broadcast nationally.

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Cult following

A cult following is a group of fans who are highly dedicated to a work of culture, often referred to as a cult classic.

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Daily Politics

Daily Politics is a British television programme launched by the BBC in 2003 and presented by Andrew Neil and Jo Coburn.

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David Attenborough

Sir David Frederick Attenborough (born 8 May 1926) is an English broadcaster and naturalist.

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Denis Tuohy

Denis Tuohy (born 2 April 1937, Belfast, Northern Ireland) is a television broadcaster, actor, newsreader and journalist.

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Digital television transition

The digital television transition, also called the digital switchover, the analog switch-off (ASO), or the analog shutdown, is the process in which older analog television broadcasting is converted to and replaced by digital television.

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Don't Get Done, Get Dom

Don't Get Done, Get Dom is a British consumer rights television series.

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Edinburgh International Television Festival

The Edinburgh International Television Festival is an annual media event in the UK each August which brings together all parts of the television and digital world to debate the major issues facing the industry.

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Eir (telecommunications)

Eir Group plc., trading as Eir, is a fixed, mobile and broadband telecommunications company in Ireland, and a former state-owned monopoly, which is currently incorporated in Jersey.

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Electronic program guide

Electronic program guides (EPGs) and interactive program guides (IPGs) are menu-based systems that provide users of television, radio and other media applications with continuously updated menus displaying broadcast programming (TV listings in the UK) or scheduling information for current and upcoming programming.

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Eric Porter

Eric Richard Porter (8 April 192815 May 1995) was an English actor of stage, film and television.

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Freesat

Freesat is a free-to-air digital satellite television service in the United Kingdom, provided by joint venture between the BBC and ITV plc.

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Freeview (UK)

Freeview is the United Kingdom's digital terrestrial television platform.

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Gerald Priestland

Gerald Francis Priestland (26 February 1927 – 20 June 1991) was a foreign correspondent and, later, a religious commentator for the BBC.

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Graeme MacDonald

Graeme Patrick David MacDonald (30 July 1930 – 30 September 1997), known as Graeme MacDonald and sometimes credited as Graeme McDonald or Graham McDonald, was a British television producer and executive.

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Great Railway Journeys

Great Railway Journeys, originally titled Great Railway Journeys of the World, is a recurring series of travel documentaries produced by BBC Television.

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HARDtalk

Hardtalk (styled as HARDtalk) is a BBC television and radio programme, consisting of in-depth 25-minute one-on-one interviews.

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Have I Got News for You

Have I Got News for You is a British television panel show produced by Hat Trick Productions for the BBC.

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Hearing loss

Hearing loss, also known as hearing impairment, is a partial or total inability to hear.

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High-definition television

High-definition television (HDTV) is a television system providing an image resolution that is of substantially higher resolution than that of standard-definition television, either analog or digital.

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Highbrow

Used colloquially as a noun or adjective, "highbrow" is synonymous with intellectual; as an adjective, it also means elite, and generally carries a connotation of high culture.

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History of BBC television idents

The history of BBC television idents begins in the early 1950s, when the BBC first displayed a logo between programmes to identify its service.

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Homes Under the Hammer

Homes Under the Hammer is a British factual renovation and auction television series that originally screened on BBC One as part of the BBC's morning schedule.

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IPTV

Internet Protocol television (IPTV) is the delivery of television content over Internet Protocol (IP) networks.

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Isle of Man

The Isle of Man (Ellan Vannin), also known simply as Mann (Mannin), is a self-governing British Crown dependency in the Irish Sea between the islands of Great Britain and Ireland.

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ITV (TV network)

ITV is a British commercial TV network.

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James Redmond (broadcaster)

Sir James Redmond (8 November 1918 – 17 October 1999) was a British engineer.

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Jane Root

Amanda Jane Fairbairn Root (born 18 May 1957) is a creative executive in the media industry, who has run major television networks on both sides of the Atlantic.

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Janice Hadlow

Janice Vivienne Hadlow (born 15 November 1957 in Lewisham) is a British television executive.

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John Galsworthy

John Galsworthy (14 August 1867 – 31 January 1933) was an English novelist and playwright.

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Kangaroo

The kangaroo is a marsupial from the family Macropodidae (macropods, meaning "large foot").

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Kenneth Clark

Kenneth Mackenzie Clark, Baron Clark (13 July 1903 – 21 May 1983) was a British art historian, museum director, and broadcaster.

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Kenneth More

Kenneth Gilbert More, CBE (20 September 1914 – 12 July 1982) was an English film and stage actor.

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Kim Shillinglaw

Kim Shillinglaw (born 1969) is a British media executive.

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Kiss Me, Kate

Kiss Me, Kate is a musical written by Samuel and Bella Spewack with music and lyrics by Cole Porter.

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Knowledge building

The Knowledge Building (KB) theory was created and developed by Carl Bereiter and Marlene Scardamalia for describing what a community of learners needs to accomplish in order to create knowledge.

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KPN

KPN (in full Koninklijke KPN N.V., also Royal KPN N.V.) is a Dutch landline and mobile telecommunications company.

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Liechtenstein

Liechtenstein, officially the Principality of Liechtenstein (Fürstentum Liechtenstein), is a doubly landlocked German-speaking microstate in Central Europe.

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List of television stations in the United Kingdom

This list of linear television stations in the United Kingdom refers to television in the United Kingdom which is available from digital terrestrial, satellite, cable, and IPTV providers, with an estimated more than 480 channels.

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Logo of the BBC

The BBC logo has been a brand identity for the corporation and its work since the 1950s in a variety of designs.

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Mark Thompson (media executive)

Mark John Thompson (born 31 July 1957)“THOMPSON, Mark John Thompson,” in Who's Who 2009 (London: A & C Black, 2008); online ed., (Oxford: OUP, 2008),.

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Marsupial

Marsupials are any members of the mammalian infraclass Marsupialia.

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Match of the Day Kickabout

Match of the Day Kickabout is a British children's television football programme broadcast on CBBC.

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Meerkat Manor

Meerkat Manor is a British television programme produced by Oxford Scientific Films for Animal Planet International that premiered in September 2005 and ran for four series until its cancellation in August 2008.

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Michael Jackson (TV executive)

Michael Richard Jackson (born 11 February 1958) is a British television producer and executive.

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Michael Peacock (television executive)

Ian Michael Peacock (born 14 September 1929, Christchurch, Hampshire) is a former British television executive, who from 1963 until the spring of 1965 was the first Controller of BBC 2, the Corporation's second television channel.

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Ministry of Defence (United Kingdom)

The Ministry of Defence (MoD or MOD) is the British government department responsible for implementing the defence policy set by Her Majesty's Government and is the headquarters of the British Armed Forces.

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Miranda (TV series)

Miranda was a British television sitcom written by and starring comedian Miranda Hart.

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National Lottery (United Kingdom)

The National Lottery is the state-franchised national lottery in the United Kingdom.

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Naxoo

Naxoo is a Swiss cable television company owned by 022 Télégenève.

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Netherlands

The Netherlands (Nederland), often referred to as Holland, is a country located mostly in Western Europe with a population of seventeen million.

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Northern Ireland

Northern Ireland (Tuaisceart Éireann; Ulster-Scots: Norlin Airlann) is a part of the United Kingdom in the north-east of the island of Ireland, variously described as a country, province or region.

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NTSC

NTSC, named after the National Television System Committee,National Television System Committee (1951–1953),, 17 v. illus., diagrs., tables.

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Numericable

Numericable was a cable operator and telecommunications services company.

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Open Space (TV programme)

Open Space was a programme produced by the BBC's Community Programme Unit.

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Open University

The Open University (OU) is a public distance learning and research university, and one of the biggest universities in the UK for undergraduate education.

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Our Friends in the North

Our Friends in the North is a British television drama serial produced by the BBC.

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PAL

Phase Alternating Line (PAL) is a color encoding system for analogue television used in broadcast television systems in most countries broadcasting at 625-line / 50 field (25 frame) per second (576i).

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Pilkington Committee on Broadcasting

The Pilkington Committee was set up on 13 July 1960 under the chairmanship of British industrialist Sir Harry Pilkington to consider the future of broadcasting, cable and "the possibility of television for public showing".

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Play School (UK TV series)

Play School is a British children's television series produced by BBC Two (1964–1983) and later on BBC One (1983–1988) which ran from 21 April 1964 until 11 March 1988 (repeats until 14 October 1988).

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Proximus TV

Proximus TV (former Belgacom TV), subsidiary of the Belgacom Group, provides Digital TV (IPTV) services over its own IPTV Platform in Belgium.

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Public broadcasting

Public broadcasting includes radio, television and other electronic media outlets whose primary mission is public service.

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Ready Steady Cook

Ready Steady Cook was a BBC daytime TV cooking programme; it debuted on 24 October 1994 and the last edition was broadcast on 2 February 2010.

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Republic of Ireland

Ireland (Éire), also known as the Republic of Ireland (Poblacht na hÉireann), is a sovereign state in north-western Europe occupying 26 of 32 counties of the island of Ireland.

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Robin Scott (BBC controller)

Robin Hugh Scutt (24 October 1920 – 7 February 2000), better known as Robin Scott, was a British broadcasting executive.

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Roly Keating

Roland Francis Kester "Roly" Keating (born 5 August 1961) is Chief Executive of the British Library.

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Royal Dutch Shell

Royal Dutch Shell plc, commonly known as Shell, is a British–Dutch multinational oil and gas company headquartered in the Netherlands and incorporated in the United Kingdom.

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Russell Howard's Good News

Russell Howard's Good News is a British comedy and topical news show which was broadcast on BBC Three between 2009 and 2014, and on BBC Two between 2014 and 2015.

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Sans-serif

In typography and lettering, a sans-serif, sans serif, gothic, or simply sans letterform is one that does not have extending features called "serifs" at the end of strokes.

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Sign language

Sign languages (also known as signed languages) are languages that use manual communication to convey meaning.

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Sky Ireland

Sky Ireland Limited is a subsidiary of Sky plc and supplies television, internet and telephony services in Ireland.

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Sky UK

Sky UK (formerly British Sky Broadcasting Limited, BSkyB and Sky) is a telecommunications company which serves the United Kingdom.

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Soviet Union

The Soviet Union, officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was a socialist state in Eurasia that existed from 1922 to 1991.

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Sport Relief

Sport Relief is a biennial charity event from Comic Relief, in association with BBC Sport, which brings together the worlds of sport and entertainment to raise money to help vulnerable people in both the UK and the world's poorest countries.

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Standard-definition television

Standard-definition television (SDTV or SD) is a television system which uses a resolution that is not considered to be either high- or enhanced-definition.

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Station identification

Station identification (ident, network ID or channel ID) is the practice of radio or television stations or networks identifying themselves on-air, typically by means of a call sign or brand name (sometimes known, particularly in the United States, as a "sounder" or "stinger", more generally as a station or network ID).

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Subtitle (captioning)

Subtitles are text derived from either a transcript or screenplay of the dialog or commentary in films, television programs, video games, and the like, usually displayed at the bottom of the screen, but can also be at the top of the screen if there is already text at the bottom of the screen.

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Swisscom

Swisscom AG is a major telecommunications provider in Switzerland.

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Switzerland

Switzerland, officially the Swiss Confederation, is a sovereign state in Europe.

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Telenet (Belgium)

Telenet Group is the largest provider of cable broadband services in Belgium.

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Television Centre, London

Television Centre is a building complex in White City, West London that was the headquarters of BBC Television between 1960 and 2013.

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Television channel

A television channel is a broadcast frequency or virtual number over which a television station or television network is distributed.

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Television in the Republic of Ireland

Television in the Republic of Ireland is available through a variety of platforms.

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Television licence

A television licence or broadcast receiving licence is a payment required in many countries for the reception of television broadcasts, or the possession of a television set where some broadcasts are funded in full or in part by the licence fee paid.

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Television standards conversion

Television standards conversion is the process of changing one type of television system to another.

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Telfort

Telfort B.V. is a Dutch mobile telecommunication company, and a subsidiary of KPN.

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The Alberts

The Alberts were a British music/comedy troupe of the mid-1950s to mid-1960s, featuring brothers Anthony "Tony" and Douglas "Dougie" Gray, along with Bruce Lacey.

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The Ascent of Man

The Ascent of Man is a 13-part British documentary television series produced by the BBC and Time-Life Films first broadcast in 1973; it was written and presented by British mathematician and historian of science Jacob Bronowski.

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The Culture Show

The Culture Show was a weekly BBC Two arts magazine programme, focusing on the best of the week's arts and culture news, covering books, art, film, architecture, music, visual fashion and the performing arts.

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The Forsyte Saga (1967 series)

The Forsyte Saga is a 1967 BBC television adaptation of John Galsworthy's series of The Forsyte Saga novels, and its sequel trilogy A Modern Comedy.

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The Great British Bake Off

The Great British Bake Off (often referred to as Bake Off or GBBO) is a British television baking competition produced by Love Productions, in which a group of amateur bakers compete against each other in a series of rounds, attempting to impress a group of judges with their baking skills, with a contestant being eliminated in each round, with the winner being selected from the remaining contestants that make it to the finals.

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The Pink Panther Show

The Pink Panther Show is a showcase of cartoon shorts produced by David H. DePatie and Friz Freleng between 1969 and 1979, starring the animated Pink Panther character from the opening credits of the live-action films.

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The Proms

The Proms is an eight-week summer season of daily orchestral classical music concerts and other events held annually, predominantly in the Royal Albert Hall in central London.

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The Rockford Files

The Rockford Files is an American television drama series starring James Garner that aired on the NBC network between September 13, 1974, and January 10, 1980, and has remained in syndication to the present day.

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The Travel Show (TV series)

The Travel Show is a BBC travel programme.

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Top Gear (2002 TV series)

Top Gear is a British motoring magazine, factual television series, conceived by Jeremy Clarkson and Andy Wilman, launched on 20 October 2002, and broadcast in the United Kingdom on BBC Two.

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Torchwood

Torchwood is a British science fiction television programme created by Russell T Davies.

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Trade test colour films

Trade test colour films were broadcast by the television network BBC2 in the early days of colour television in Britain during intervals when no regular programming had been scheduled.

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TVPlayer

TVPlayer is an Internet television company serving the United Kingdom, offering access to free live television channel streams using a web browser or application software via big screen and small screen mobile devices.

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Ultra high frequency

Ultra high frequency (UHF) is the ITU designation for radio frequencies in the range between 300 megahertz (MHz) and 3 gigahertz (GHz), also known as the decimetre band as the wavelengths range from one meter to one decimeter.

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United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain,Usage is mixed with some organisations, including the and preferring to use Britain as shorthand for Great Britain is a sovereign country in western Europe.

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UPC Switzerland

UPC Switzerland LLC, trading exclusively under the brand name UPC, is the largest broadband cable operator in Switzerland.

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Very high frequency

Very high frequency (VHF) is the ITU designation for the range of radio frequency electromagnetic waves (radio waves) from 30 to 300 megahertz (MHz), with corresponding wavelengths of ten to one meter.

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Victoria Derbyshire

Victoria Antoinette Derbyshire (born 2 October 1968) is a BAFTA, RTS and Sony award-winning English journalist and broadcaster.

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Video Nation

Video Nation is a BBC television project in social anthropology and audience interactivity which has now ended.

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Virgin Media

Virgin Media Limited is a British company which provides telephone, television and internet services in the United Kingdom.

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Virgin Media Ireland

Virgin Media Ireland is Liberty Global's telecommunications operation in Ireland.

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Viridian

Viridian is a blue-green pigment, a hydrated chromium(III) oxide, of medium saturation and relatively dark in value.

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Wales

Wales (Cymru) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and the island of Great Britain.

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WightFibre

WightFibre is the cable network operator on the Isle of Wight.

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XS4ALL

XS4ALL (a play on the English pronunciation of access for all) is the third-oldest Internet service provider (ISP) in the Netherlands, after NLnet and SURFnet.

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Ziggo

Ziggo is the largest cable operator in the Netherlands, providing digital cable television, Internet, and telephone service to both residential and commercial customers.

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1080i

1080i (also known as Full HD or BT.709) is an abbreviation referring to a combination of frame resolution and scan type, used in high-definition television (HDTV) and high-definition video.

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16:9

16:9 (1.7:1) (16:9.

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1967 Wimbledon Championships

The 1967 Wimbledon Championships took place on the outdoor grass courts at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in Wimbledon, London, United Kingdom.

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405-line television system

The 405-line monochrome analogue television broadcasting system was the first fully electronic television system to be used in regular broadcasting.

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576i

576i is a standard-definition video mode originally used for broadcast television in most countries of the world where the utility frequency for electric power distribution is 50 Hz.

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References

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