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BBC News (international TV channel)

BBC News, formerly BBC World News and BBC World, is the BBC's international English-language 24-hour pay TV channel, launched as World Service Television News in 1991, merged with the UK channel under the BBC News name in April 2023, reaching 467 million weekly.

BBC News Online

BBC News Online, also known as the BBC News website, is the BBC's news website, launched in December 1997 and operated from Broadcasting House in London.

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 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 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 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 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 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.

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.

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.

BBN Airlines

BBN Airlines Indonesia is an Indonesian ACMI leasing, charter, and cargo airline based in Jakarta, founded in 2022 as a subsidiary of Avia Solutions Group.

Bc European Capital X -

BC European Capital X (BCEC X) is a family of parallel limited partnerships holding BC Partners' tenth flagship buyout fund, closed at €7 billion in January 2018.

BC Group

BC Group, formerly BC Technology Group and renamed OSL Group in 2024, is a Hong Kong-listed digital asset company whose OSL platform is licensed by the SFC.

BCI-Banco Credito

Banco de Crédito e Inversiones (Bci) is a Chilean universal bank founded in Santiago in 1937 by Juan Yarur Lolas and controlled by the Yarur family.

Bcp Asia

BCP Asia, or Blackstone Capital Partners Asia, is the series of Asia-focused private equity buyout funds of Blackstone, which closed its third fund at a reported $13.1 billion in 2026.

Bcp Infrastructure

BCP Infrastructure is the infrastructure private equity fund program of Bernhard Capital Partners, a Baton Rouge, Louisiana firm, whose two funds raised roughly $1 billion since 2020.

Bdcm

BDCM, also known as Black Diamond Capital Management, is a Stamford, Connecticut-based alternative asset manager founded by Stephen H. Deckoff in 1995, running distressed credit, CLO, and private equity platforms.

BDO Global

BDO Global, also known as BDO International, is a network of independent accounting firms offering audit, tax, and advisory services, ranking fifth globally outside the Big Four.

BDSM

BDSM, an acronym for bondage and discipline, dominance and submission, and sadism and masochism, is an umbrella term for consensual adult practices involving restraint, power exchange, and intense sensation, first recorded 1990–95.

Bdt Capital Partners

Bdt Capital Partners is a Chicago-based private equity investment manager founded by Byron Trott in 2009, headquartered at 401 N. Michigan Avenue and operating since 2023 under BDT & MSD Holdings.

Be Here Now (book)

Remember, Be Here Now is a 1971 guide to Hindu-derived spiritual practice by Ram Dass, born Richard Alpert, a counterculture classic that has sold over 2 million copies.

Beacon Biosignals

Beacon Biosignals, formerly Checkpoint AI, Inc., is a Boston neurotechnology company founded in 2019 by Jake Donoghue and Jarrett Revels that pairs wearable EEG with AI for brain-health diagnostics.