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BBC North West Tonight
North West Tonight is the BBC's regional evening news programme for North West England, broadcast from MediaCityUK, Salford. Descended from 1957 northern news bulletins and renamed in 1984, it airs at 18:30 and 22:30 on BBC One North West.
BBC One
BBC One is the BBC's flagship mixed-genre UK television channel, with national versions for Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. Launched as the BBC Television Service on 2 November 1936, it became BBC1 after BBC2's 1964 launch and remains a main public service channel.
BBC Online
BBC Online is the collective name for the British Broadcasting Corporation's internet services, centered on bbc.co.uk, launched in December 1997, including BBC iPlayer and BBC News Online.
BBC Persian
BBC Persian (بیبیسی فارسی) is the BBC's Persian-language news service in London, on radio since 1940 and television since 2009, reaching about 24 million weekly.
BBC Proms
The BBC Proms, formally the Henry Wood Promenade Concerts Presented by the BBC, is a summer classical music festival at London's Royal Albert Hall. Founded 10 August 1895 by Robert Newman with conductor Henry Wood; BBC-run since 1927.
BBC Radio
BBC Radio is the radio division of the BBC, broadcasting since 14 November 1922 from 2LO London. Its national networks (Radios 1-6 Music, 5 Live) date from the 1967 relaunch; Radio 2 leads with 12.7m weekly listeners, and BBC Sounds is UK-only since July 2025.
BBC Radio 1
BBC Radio 1: UK national BBC pop music station launched 30 September 1967 with Tony Blackburn, aimed at young audiences (15-29), regulated by Ofcom with new music quotas, sister station 1Xtra, Dance and Anthems Sounds streams.
BBC Radio 2
BBC Radio 2 is the BBC's national mixed music and speech network for listeners over 35, launched 30 September 1967 from the Light Programme; the UK's most-listened station at about 12.4–12.7 million weekly listeners.
BBC Radio 4
BBC Radio 4 is the BBC's UK national speech radio station, launched 30 September 1967 from the Home Service. Known for Today, Desert Island Discs, The Archers and the Shipping Forecast; about 9 million weekly listeners.
BBC Radio 5 Live
BBC Radio 5 Live, also known as Five Live, is the BBC's national speech radio station combining rolling news and live sport, launched on 28 March 1994.
BBC Radio 6 Music
BBC Radio 6 Music is the BBC's digital popular music station, launched in 2002, celebrating alternative music from the 1960s to today. It survived a 2010 closure proposal and is the UK's largest digital-only station, with about 2.6 million weekly listeners.
BBC Singers
BBC Singers: Britain's only full-time professional chamber choir, founded 1924 as the Wireless Chorus, first radio chorus in the world; survived a 2023 closure announcement, centenary and RPS Ensemble Award 2024.
BBC Sport
BBC Sport is the BBC division producing sports coverage for TV, radio and digital, including 5 Live, the website and app. Holds Olympics rights to 2032, World Cup 2026, FA Cup and Champions League highlights; won 2024 Broadcast Sport Awards broadcaster of the year.
BBC Sports Personality of the Year
BBC Sports Personality of the Year (SPOTY), annual UK award since 1954, first won by Chris Chataway; public vote from expert-panel shortlist; 2025 winner Rory McIlroy, its third golf champion after Rees and Faldo.
BBC Studios
BBC Studios: the BBC's main commercial subsidiary, formed by the 2018 BBC Worldwide merger; produces and distributes Doctor Who, Bluey, and Top Gear, returning profits to the BBC (£1.9bn to 2023-24).
BBC Studios Natural History Unit
BBC Studios Natural History Unit (NHU): Bristol-based wildlife production unit founded 1957, maker of Blue Planet II, Planet Earth III, Prehistoric Planet, and The Americas; led by Jonny Keeling with Mike Gunton as Creative Director.
BBC Symphony Orchestra
BBC Symphony Orchestra (BBC SO): London orchestra founded 1930 as the BBC's principal broadcasting orchestra, resident at the BBC Proms and Barbican; chief conductor Sakari Oramo; also the name of Spitfire Audio's sample library.
BBC Television
BBC Television (BBC-TV, British Broadcasting Corporation Television Service) is the TV arm of the UK's licence-fee-funded public broadcaster, launched from Alexandra Palace in 1936, now spanning BBC One to CBeebies plus iPlayer.
BBC Three
BBC Three is the BBC's young-adult television service, launched in February 2003 replacing BBC Choice, moved online-only in 2016, and relaunched as a broadcast channel in 2022 after Ofcom approval with EPG slot 24 prominence.
BBC Two
BBC Two is the BBC's second television channel, launched 20 April 1964 after a power-cut-hit opening night. A mixed-genre public service channel focused on factual programmes, innovative comedy and drama, it carried Europe's first regular colour TV service from 1967.
BBC Weather
BBC Weather, also known as BBC Weather Centre, is the BBC's weather forecasting service, broadcasting forecasts on television, radio, online, and its app since its first radio forecast in 1922.
BBC World Service
BBC World Service is the BBC's international broadcaster, launched 19 December 1932 as the Empire Service, broadcasting in about 42-45 languages to 355 million weekly listeners, funded by the licence fee and FCDO grants.
BBC's 100 Greatest Films of the 21st Century
BBC Culture's 100 Greatest Films of the 21st Century, published 23 August 2016, ranked films since 2000 from a poll of 177 critics in 36 countries; Mulholland Drive placed first.
BBC3
BBC3 (BCL2 binding component 3), also called PUMA or JFY1, is a human chromosome 19 gene encoding a BH3-only pro-apoptotic BCL-2 family protein, a direct p53 target degraded by chaperone-mediated autophagy unless IKKβ-phosphorylated.
BBCH scale
The BBCH scale is a standardized two-digit decimal code describing the phenological growth stages of crops and weeds, proposed in 1991 as an extension of the Zadoks cereal code.
Bbh Capital Partners
BBH Capital Partners is the private equity arm of the New York private bank Brown Brothers Harriman, making control or minority investments of $50 million to $150 million.
Bbh Wealth Strategies
BBH Wealth Strategies, LLC is a New York issuer of pooled investment fund series managed by Brown Brothers Harriman, filing Form D notices since 2015.
BBIBP-CorV (Sinopharm Beijing inactivated COVID-19 vaccine)
The COVID-19 Vaccine (Vero Cell), Inactivated, known as BBIBP-CorV or the Sinopharm BIBP vaccine, is an inactivated COVID-19 vaccine developed in China and approved there in December 2020.
BBK
BBK, or Bubugao, is a Chinese consumer-electronics group founded by Duan Yongping in 1995 in Dongguan, Guangdong, that made learning machines and phones before its offshoots created the smartphone brands Oppo and Vivo.
BBK Education Electronics
BBK Education Electronics (步步高教育电子有限公司) is a privately held Chinese education electronics maker headquartered in Dongguan, Guangdong, producing tutor machines, dictionary pens, and Xiaotiancai children's phone watches.