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The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster. Headquartered at Broadcasting House in Westminster, London, it is the world's oldest national broadcaster, and the largest broadcaster in the world by number of employees. It employs over 22,000 staff in total, more than 16,000 of whom are in public sector broadcasting. The total number of staff is 35,402 when part-time, flexible, and fixed-contract staff are included.

The BBC is established under a Royal Charter and operates under its Agreement with the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport. Its work is funded principally by an annual television licence fee which is charged to all British households, companies, and organisations using any type of equipment to receive or record live television broadcasts and iPlayer catch-up. The fee is set by the British Government, agreed by Parliament, and used to fund the BBC's radio, TV, and online services covering the nations and regions of the UK. Since 1 April 2014, it has also funded the BBC World Service (launched in 1932 as the BBC Empire Service), which broadcasts in 28 languages and provides comprehensive TV, radio, and online services in Arabic and Persian.

Around a quarter of BBC's revenue comes from its commercial subsidiary BBC Worldwide, which sells BBC programmes and services internationally and also distributes the BBC's international 24-hour English-language news services BBC World News, and from BBC.com, provided by BBC Global News Ltd. In 2009, the company was awarded the Queen's Award for Enterprise in recognition of its international achievements.

The BBC operates several television channels in the UK. BBC One and BBC Two are the flagship television channels; others are BBC Three, BBC Four, BBC News 24, BBC Parliament, and two children's channels, CBBC and CBeebies. The BBC has ten radio stations serving the whole of the UK, a further seven stations in the "national regions" (Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland), and 40 other local stations serving defined areas of England. Of the ten national stations, five are major stations and are available on FM and/or AM as well as on DAB and online.

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BBC One is the first flagship television network of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) in the United Kingdom, Isle of Man and Channel Islands. It was launched on 2 November 1936 as the BBC Television Service, and was the world's first regular television service with a high level of image resolution. It was renamed BBC TV in 1960, using this name until the launch of the second BBC channel BBC2 in 1964, whereupon the BBC TV channel became known as BBC1, with the current spelling adopted of BBC One in 1997.

The channel is funded by the television licence fee together with the BBC's other domestic television stations, and shows uninterrupted programming without commercial advertising. It is currently the most watched television channel in the United Kingdom, ahead of its traditional rival for ratings leadership, ITV1.

BBC One has individual continuity and opt-outs for Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. Each variant maintains the BBC One logo with the addition of the constituent country name beneath it. In England, each region has an individual regional news and current affairs programme opt-out as well as a limited amount of continuity. During these opt-outs, the region name is displayed as with the national variations, beneath the main channel logo.

BBC One Scotland has the greatest level of variation from the generic network, owing to BBC Scotland scheduling Scottish programming on the main BBC Scotland channel, rather than on BBC Two. BBC One Scotland variations include the soap opera River City and the football programme Sportscene, the inclusion of which causes network programming to be displaced or replaced. BBC One Wales was considered a separate channel by the BBC as early as its launch in the mid-1960s, appearing as BBC Wales.

BBC One is a mainstream public service channel with a broad range of high-quality, British, popular programming covering all genres. It aspires to be in touch with the modern UK, introducing new and exciting ideas and tastes to its audiences. BBC One seeks to offer something of value for everyone.

The channel aims to be ambitious in everything it broadcasts, making serious subjects accessible and relevant to a wide range of different audiences. BBC One also has a unique role as the channel to which people turn at times of national significance, giving it a particular responsibility for covering major events.

2,508 annual hours of news and weather (293 in peak, 1,049 of BBC News simulcasts) are provided by regular news programmes BBC Breakfast, the BBC News at One, BBC News at Six and the BBC News at Ten each including BBC regional news programmes. All three main news bulletins have a lead over their rival programmes on ITV1 and other terrestrial or cable channels. During the weekend period, three separate bulletins around these three time periods are broadcast and vary in length from 10–25 minutes. BBC One has broadcast overnight simulcasts from BBC News 24 since 1997.

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BBC Two is the second flagship television network of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) in the United Kingdom, Isle of Man and Channel Islands. It covers a wide range of subject matter, but tends to broadcast more "highbrow" programmes than the more mainstream and popular BBC One. Like the BBC's other domestic TV and radio channels, it is funded by the television licence, and is therefore free of commercial advertising. It is a comparatively well-funded public-service network, regularly attaining a much higher audience share than most public-service networks worldwide.

Originally styled BBC2, it was the third British television station to be launched (starting on 21 April 1964), and from 1 July 1967, Europe's first television channel to broadcast regularly in colour.

BBC Two also has regional variations in the nations: Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. These versions of BBC Two share the same idents, but with the nation name in the BBC Two box. BBC Two Scotland shows a lot of specifically Scottish programming on the channel, as well as its sister channel BBC One Scotland, and the schedules are often mixed around to match. BBC Two Northern Ireland and BBC Two Wales both have the option to opt out of the main network schedule, but generally stick to it, only opting out a couple of times each week.

BBC Two aims to attract a wide audience to challenging, intelligent television by bringing ambition, creativity and innovation to everything it does. The channel has a mission to go deeper into what really interests and inspires people today. It aims to leave something with the viewer at the end every programme - be that a new thought, an aspiration for the future or a new passion and involvement in subject areas.

BBC Two aims to get under the skin of the modern world - whether through history, science, documentaries, arts and current affairs, or drama, comedy and popular factual programmes.

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BBC Three is a British free-to-air television channel operated by the British Broadcasting Corporation. Launched on 9 February 2003 as a replacement for BBC Choice, the service's remit is to provide "innovative programming" to a target audience of viewers between 16 and 34 years old, leveraging technology as well as new talent. The channel is on-air from 7 pm to around 4 am each night. Until April 2016 the channel shared terrestrial television bandwidth with CBBC.

BBC Three is an inherently multicultural, interactive, digital channel with a mission to engage a demanding audience of young adults with ambitious, stylish programming. The channel is committed to a mixed schedule of news, current affairs, education, music, arts, science and coverage of international issues, as well as to high-quality, innovative drama and entertainment programmes.

The channel also shows some sport, primarily Match of the Day Live, broadcasting international football matches featuring Wales, often when an England match is being shown on BBC One. The channel also shows some matches of England's Women's team.

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BBC Four is a British free-to-air television channel owned and operated by the BBC. It was launched on 2 March 2002, having been delayed from the original planned 2001 launch. The channel is on-air from 7:00 pm to 4:00 am, timesharing with CBeebies (which starts at 6:00am).

BBC Four aims to be television's most intellectually and culturally enriching channel, providing a range and depth not found elsewhere, and bringing an international perspective to the output, from news to documentaries, cinema and performance.

BBC Four provides intelligent news and comment on events in the UK and around the world, reflects and contributes to the country's cultural life through a broad range of music, arts and events, and provides opportunities for voices not often heard in the mainstream. The channel gives the space to contextualise and go deeper into the subjects it examines.

On weekdays at 8pm, the channel shows a 30-minute global news programme called The World, simulcast with and produced by BBC World News.

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CBBC (short for Children's BBC or Children's British Broadcasting Corporation), also known as the CBBC Channel, is a British free-to-air children's television channel operated by the BBC. Launching on 11 February 2002 as a spin-off from the BBC's children's strand of the same name, CBBC broadcasts for fourteen hours per-day from 7:00 am to 9:00 pm. CBBC is primarily aimed at viewers 6 to 16 years old; a sister channel, CBeebies, serves a younger audience.

The channel originally shared bandwidth on the digital terrestrial television platform with BBC Choice, and later BBC Three, needing that CBBC sign off at 7:00 p.m. daily. Beginning on 11 April 2016, CBBC extended its broadcast day by two hours. On 22 August 2008, the BBC announced that the channel would be available live on its website from 16 September. CBBC's reach further expanded with the addition of the channel on the Sky line-up in the Republic of Ireland on 12 May 2011. The British Forces Broadcasting Service have provided younger viewers with CBBC and CBeebies since 1 April 2013 when they replaced BFBS Kids.

CBBC is a children's television channel that offers new, mainly UK programming in a mixed-genre schedule for the six to 12 age range. The channel aims to be truly interactive, giving all children the opportunity to become involved.

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CBeebies is a British free-to-air television network owned by the BBC. It is aimed at young children aged 3+. It also manages an international network supported by subscription services. The CBeebies channel launched on 11 February 2002, with the first show to air being Teletubbies.

CBeebies offers a range of new high-quality, mainly UK-produced, educative and entertaining programmes for under the age of six. Available from 6am - 7pm, the service provides a consistently safe environment for the BBC's youngest audience.

CBebbies includes more educational programming throughout the day than any other channel aimed at this age group. It is supported by a website which aims to provide further learning opportunities through games and stories, and to encourage shape and colour recognition, categorisation and memory development.

The links between programmes on CBeebies are primarily achieved through the use of in-vision continuity, using presenters to interact with the children. In the UK, links are pre-recorded rather than broadcast live, as is the case on sister channel CBBC. From September 2011, the links have been based at the BBC's Northern base at Dock10, MediaCityUK, following the move of the BBC Children's department there.

As well as hosting some of the shows, a number of presenters fill the gaps between the CBeebies shows, speaking directly to the child, leading activities based on a topic from the CBeebies website, showing viewers' birthday cards, and introducing the shows. Many of the presenters have histories as characters on other services or on children's programmes.

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BBC News 24 is a British free-to-air television news channel. It was launched on 9 November 1997 at 5:30 pm as part of the BBC's foray into digital domestic television channels, becoming the first competitor to Sky News, which had been running since 1989.

BBC News 24's primary purpose is to provide serious and compelling journalism, drawing on long-term investment in first-hand reporting from BBC correspondents in all parts of the UK and across the world. We deliver fast, comprehensive coverage of events as they unfold - at regional, national and international level - and specialist analysis to put the news in context.

BBC News 24 draws directly on the BBC's enviable reputation in current affairs programmes for independent thought, detailed background and clear explanation from experts in their field. It's a further demonstration of our belief that the news is a prime responsibility for the public service broadcaster.

Every hour on the hour we give you a full bulletin of all the day's news. Headlines are updated every fifteen minutes, so you need never miss out on the latest developments.

There are sport headlines at 15 minutes past every hour, with a full sports bulletin at 35 minutes past.

At 25 past each hour we bring you the business headlines and latest from the markets, followed by all the business news at 45 minutes past.

And at 27 and 57 minutes past the hour there's a full weather forecast.

The 8pm and 1pm news bulletins are interpreted in British Sign Language, live on BBC News 24, weekdays.

There's also live coverage of news events from across the UK and around the World, and the fastest and most comprehensive coverage of all the breaking news stories.

All of this from the BBC's unrivalled network of resources - 2,000 journalists, 200 specialist correspondents, a network of national and region studios across the whole of the UK, and more than 50 foreign bureaux.

As well as BBC News 24's rolling news coverage, the channel prides itself on its diverse and informative range of programmes. From HARDtalk to Talking Movies, our programmes cover a wide range of topics - from entertainment through to world politics.

STRAIGHT TALK
Saturdays at 10:30am and 2:30pm, Sundays at 5:30am and 4:30pm
Gets behind the week's sound-bites to reveal what's really being said behind closed doors in Whitehall and Westminster. Nick Robinson and three of Fleet Street's best informed and most trenchant political journalists provide entertaining discussion and irreverent gossip that the spin-doctors would prefer us not to hear.

ONE TO ONE
Saturdays at 6:45am and 9:45pm, Sundays at 7:45am and 8:45pm
A weekly interview with one of the people who shapes British politics, 'One To One' reveals what makes them tick. With the emphasis on conversation, not confrontation, and on insight, not interrogation, Vicki Young, BBC News' chief political correspondent, reveals the personalities and thinking of the people who are the talk of the corridors of power. An antidote to sound-bites and re-heated policy announcements.

DATELINE LONDON
Sundays at 11:30am and 10:30pm, Mondays at 3:30am
Dateline London is a unique programme providing viewers with a foreigners view of Britain.
Once a week a group of distinguished foreign correspondents, from the worlds leading newspapers, magazines and broadcasters join one of the UK's most influential columnists to discuss the events of the week. Always lively, always well informed, often well in front of breaking news, Dateline London gives audiences at home and abroad an invaluable insight into all they need to know about everything that matters.

BUSINESS TODAY
Monday to Friday at 8:30pm
Business Today is the main daily business news programme from the BBC. Broadcast live every evening - Monday to Friday - at 8:30pm on BBC News 24 and presented by Victoria Fritz, the half-hour programme delivers the main business news of the day to Britain's business community.

HARDtalk
Monday - Friday at 10:30pm and repeated Tuesday - Saturday at 2:30am
HARDtalk is a 24 minute hard-hitting interview programme with the world's news-makers - from international political leaders to entertainers; from corporate decision-makers to individuals with a strong personal story.
Stephen Sackur, Zeinab Badawi and Sarah Montague ask the difficult questions and get behind the stories that make the news.

TALKING MOVIES
Saturdays at 5:30am, 3:30pm and 10:30pm, Sundays at 3:30am
For film buffs, Talking Movies is the programme that brings you the very latest from Hollywood and the rest of the US. Presenter Tom Brook gets behind the scenes and finds the real stories behind the shows and films.

E24
Saturdays at 6:30am and 8:30pm, Sundays at 8:45am
The programme that keeps you up-do-date with the very latest from the world of showbiz. Its team of reporters brings you the best stories from the cutting edge of film, music and television.

SIMPSON'S WORLD
Saturdays at 11:30am, Sundays at 2:30am and 2:30pm, Mondays at 12:30am (every four weeks)
The BBC's World Affairs Editor, John Simpson takes a stroll with people in the news, or directly affected by the news. In a half hour programme he gets to the root of issues by talking to the people with first hand experience in their own environment.

EUROPE DIRECT
Saturdays at 11:30am, Sundays at 2:30am and 2:30pm, Mondays at 12:30am (every four weeks)
Once a month Katya Adler and other veteran European correspondents present a half-hour programme covering the issues being talked about in the bars and cafés of Europe: from hot news and current affairs to lifestyles and the arts.

AUSTRALIA DIRECT
Saturdays at 11:30am, Sundays at 2:30am and 2:30pm, Mondays at 12:30am (every four weeks)
Shaimaa Khalil gives us the news and the views from down-under in a monthly half hour programme covering a wide range of topics filmed all over Australia.

USA DIRECT
Saturdays at 11:30am, Sundays at 2:30am and 2:30pm, Mondays at 12:30am (every four weeks)
From New York, a monthly round-up of the latest news, entertainment and the arts from across the United States of America.

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BBC Parliament is a British free-to-air 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 Senedd. The channel also broadcasts reports from the European Parliament and the annual conferences of the main political parties and the Trades Union Congress.

Before being taken over by the BBC, the channel was known as the Parliamentary Channel, operated by United Artists Cable and funded by a consortium of British cable operators. The Parliamentary Channel launched as a cable-exclusive channel on 13 January 1992. The channel was purchased by the BBC in 1998, retitled BBC Parliament and relaunched on 23 September 1998. It now broadcasts on cable, satellite, and Freeview. It is the only UK channel dedicated to politics, 52 weeks of the year.

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BBC Alba is a Scottish Gaelic-language free-to-air television channel jointly owned by the BBC and MG ALBA. The channel was launched on 19 September 2008 and is on-air for up to seven hours a day. The name Alba is the Scottish Gaelic name for Scotland. The station is unique in that it is the first channel to be delivered under a BBC licence by a partnership and is also the first multi-genre channel to come entirely from Scotland with almost all of its programmes made in Scotland.

BBC Alba is broadcast for up to seven hours a day in the United Kingdom on satellite platforms Sky and Freesat, cable provider Virgin Media and on digital terrestrial provider Freeview in Scotland only. Programmes are also available to watch on the Internet live through services including the BBC iPlayer and some programmes are available for seven days after broadcast on this service and on catch up services of some other services.

Output on the channel consists of news, current affairs, sport, drama, documentary, entertainment, education, religion and children's programming, broadcast on most days between 5 pm and 12 am.

BBC Alba broadcasts more Scottish sport than any other channel, with over three hours a week of football, rugby and shinty. In addition, the station also broadcasts a live news programme every day, with the weekend news provision beginning in 2018.

An Là is a Scottish Gaelic-language news programme broadcast on the Gaelic-language channel, BBC Alba. The programme, based at BBC Alba's newsroom in Inverness, began at 8pm on Monday 22 September 2008 and provides a 30-minute bulletin of Scottish, British and international news for Gaelic speakers seven days a week. The Sunday night review programme, composed of highlights from the week's bulletins as well as material from Eòrpa, called Seachd Là, began at 6.30pm on Sunday 28 September 2008.

An Là broadcasts from Studio G at the BBC in Inverness. Seachd Là, weather and the An Là sports news all come from BBC Pacific Quay in Glasgow.

An Là is the first daily television news programme to be broadcast in Scots Gaelic since the axing of Grampian Television's Telefios bulletins in 2000.

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BBC Radio 1 is a British radio station that is owned and operated by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), specialising in modern popular music and current chart hits throughout the day. Radio 1 provides alternative genres at night, including electronica, dance, hip hop and indie.

The choice of music and presenting style is entirely that of programme hosts; however, those who present in the daytime have to rotate a number of songs a specific number of times (8, 13 or 15) per week. It was launched in 1967 to meet the demand for music generated by pirate radio stations, when the average age of the UK population was 27.

BBC Radio 1 aims to offer a high quality service that is relevant to its young target audience and their lives. Music is at its core but this is augmented by other distinctive public service elements including original news, features and informative advice campaigns on the issues that matter to the audience. The network aims to deliver the best new music, with a music policy covering all the relevant genres.

BBC Radio 1 has a public service broadcasting obligation to provide news, which it fulfills through Newsbeat bulletins. The fifteen-minute Newsbeat programme is broadcast at 12:30pm and 5:30pm. Short bulletins are also heard throughout the day on the half hour between 4:30am and 6:30pm with extra bulletins broadcast at 7am, 8am, 5pm and 10pm. During weekends, bulletins are broadcast on the half hour from 7:30am until 5:30pm on Saturdays, and until 3:30pm on Sundays and Bank Holidays.

The format of Newsbeat bulletins varies throughout the day. Breakfast updates consist of full news, sport and weather; throughout the day it will be only the news and some notable sports stories. The 1:30pm bulletin is notable for being particularly short in length, and being read by a different newsreader every day due to the main newsreader being on lunch at that time. Popular folklore says that the last person remaining in the Newsbeat office at lunchtime has to read the 1:30pm bulletin. Full sport updates begin at 3:30pm. The 5pm bulletin is also shorter than the others, giving just a brief summary of what will be on the main Newsbeat programme that evening. Bulletins are more scaled back at weekends, with brief stories and sport during every bulletin throughout the day, and one newsreader reading the news for the whole day.

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BBC Radio 1Xtra is a digital urban contemporary and Black music radio station that is owned and operated by the BBC. Launched at 6pm on 16 August 2002, it had been code named Network X during the consultation period and is the sister station to BBC Radio 1.

1Xtra is dedicated to playing the best in contemporary black music for a young urban audience. It covers 'street' genres such as UK garage, drum and bass, hip hop and R'n'B, showcasing new UK talent and music in genres dominated by the USA, all presented by fresh new DJ talent from across the country.

By providing relevant speech from a dedicated news team and a weekly discussion programme, alongside weekly live music from around the country, 1Xtra aims to ensure that its audience gets a station that is targeted at their needs and dedicated to their lifestyles.

As part of its public service broadcasting remit, 1Xtra is required to carry a significant amount of news, information and speech content. 1Xtra has its own news service, TX, which is operated as a subsidiary of Radio 1's Newsbeat operations. The tone and style of the news presentation is in keeping with the station's overall target audience - young and predominantly urban. 3-minute summaries are broadcast every hour as part of the station’s 24-hour news service.

TX also has a flagship weekday two-hour news, features and discussion show under the title 'TX Unltd' (pronounced 'Unlimited'). This show is broadcast in a 5 pm – 7 pm slot on weekdays.

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BBC Radio 2 is the BBC's national radio station and the most popular station in the United Kingdom with over 15 million weekly listeners. Much of its daytime playlist-based programming is adult contemporary or AOR, although the station also broadcasts other specialist musical genres. Radio 2 broadcasts throughout the UK on FM between 88.1 MHz and 90.2 MHz from studios in Wogan House, adjacent to Broadcasting House in central London. Programmes are broadcast on digital radio via DAB, digital television and BBC Sounds.

BBC Radio 2 aims to bring a wide range of popular and specialist music, news, current affairs, comedy, readings, and social action campaigns to a mainstream audience. In addition, we are committed to offering a variety of religous output catering for the diverse beliefs of our audience.

BBC Radio 2 broadcasts news bulletins on the hour, every hour – 24-hours-a-day – from a studio in BBC Broadcasting House, with headline updates on the half-hour from 05:30 to 08:30 on weekdays during the early and main Breakfast Show.

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BBC Radio 3 is a British radio station operated by the BBC. Its output centres on classical music and opera, but jazz, world music, drama, culture and the arts also feature. The station describes itself as 'the world's most significant commissioner of new music', and through its New Generation Artists scheme promotes young musicians of all nationalities. The station broadcasts the BBC Proms concerts, live and in full, each summer in addition to performances by the BBC Orchestras and Singers. There are regular productions of both classic plays and newly commissioned drama.

Live and specially recorded music is a priority in the schedules. BBC Radio 3 helps to sustain the creative economy of the UK through its patronage of composers and performers, including the BBC performing groups.

BBC Radio 3's remit focuses mainly on music and the arts, and news is a minor part of its output, though the station does provide concise news bulletins every half hour from 6:30am to 8:30am throughout the Breakfast programme and also at 1pm, 5pm and 6pm to give listeners the chance to switch to a more news-oriented station should they want more details about a particular news item. During weekdays the 1pm, 5pm and 6pm news bulletins are read by a member of the Radio 4 presentation team.

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BBC Radio 4 is a radio station which is owned and operated by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC). A part of BBC Radio, it broadcasts a wide variety of spoken-word programmes including news, drama, comedy, science and history from the BBC's headquarters at Broadcasting House, London. It replaced the BBC Home Service in 1967.

Radio 4 the second-most-popular domestic radio station in the United Kingdom after BBC Radio 2, broadcasting throughout the UK, the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands on FM, LW and DAB, and can be received in the eastern counties of Ireland, the north of France and Northern Europe. It is also available through Freeview, Sky, Virgin Media and on BBC Sounds.

In September 1991 it was decided that the main Radio 4 service would be on FM as FM coverage had now extended to cover almost all of the UK - Radio 4 didn't become available on FM in much of Scotland and Wales until the early 1990s. Opt-outs were transferred to longwave: currently Test Match Special, extra shipping forecasts, The Daily Service and Yesterday in Parliament. Longwave very occasionally opts out at other times, such as to broadcast special services.

Radio 4 programmes cover a wide variety of genre including news and current affairs, history, culture, science, religion, arts, drama and light entertainment. A number of the programmes on Radio 4 take the form of a "magazine" show, featuring numerous small contributions over the course of the programme—Woman's Hour, From Our Own Correspondent, You and Yours. On or after the hour, a news bulletin is broadcast — this is sometimes a 2-minute summary, a longer piece as part of a current affairs programme, or a thirty minute broadcast on weekdays at 6pm and midnight.

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BBC Radio 5 Live is the BBC's national radio service that broadcasts mainly news, sport, discussion, interviews and phone-ins. It is the principal BBC radio station covering sport in the United Kingdom, broadcasting virtually all major sports events staged in the UK or involving British competitors.

Radio 5 Live was launched in March 1994 as a repositioning of the original Radio 5, which was launched on 27 August 1990. It is transmitted via analogue radio on FM and AM on medium wave 693 and 909 kHz and digitally via digital radio, television and on the BBC Sounds service. The station broadcasts from MediaCityUK in Salford in Greater Manchester and is a department of the BBC North division.

BBC Radio 5 Live is broadcast on BBC Local Radio overnight, usually from 1 am until BBC Local Radio commences morning broadcasts, usually from 5 am. BBC Radio 5 Live is also broadcast on BBC Radio Cymru in stereo from midnight until 5:30 am, on BBC Radio Scotland from 1 am until 6 am and on BBC Radio Ulster from midnight until 6:30 am.

BBC Radio 5 Live aims to react to news and events as they happen and present them in a modern and accessible style. We aim to cover subjects in depth, using wide analysis and debate to inform, entertain and involve listeners.

BBC Radio 5 Live's medium wave frequencies broadcast an extremely wide range of sports and cover all the major sporting events, mostly under its flagship sports banner 5 Live Sport. Whilst football commentaries form the majority of live commentaries during the football season, the range of events covered by the station include Olympic Games, All Home Nations International football matches and England rugby union test matches.

BBC Radio 5 Live's remit includes broadcasting rolling news and transmitting news as it breaks. Each hour follows the same basic “wheel”: starting with news (usually five minutes); a minute of sport; headlines and travel at quarter past (and quarter to); one minute of news on the half-hour, followed by five minutes of sport.

The BBC's policy for major breaking news events revolves around a priority list. With UK news, the correspondent first records a "generic minute" summary (for use by all stations and channels); the subsequent priority is to report on Radio 5 Live, then BBC News 24, and then any other programmes that are on air. For foreign news, first a "generic minute" is recorded, then reports are to World Service radio, then the reporter talks to any other programmes that are on air.

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BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra is a national digital radio station in the United Kingdom, operated by the BBC, and specialising only in extended additional sports coverage. It is a sister station to BBC Radio 5 Live and shares facilities, presenters and management, and is a department of the BBC North Group division.

5 Live Sports Extra broadcasts a variety of sports including Test Match Special, England cricket tests and One Day Internationals, Cricket's County Championship, Major League Baseball's World Series and Wimbledon Tennis championships.

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BBC Radio 6 Music is a digital radio station run by the BBC, specialising primarily in alternative music. 6 Music was the first national music radio station to be launched by the BBC in 32 years. It is available only on digital media: DAB radio, the Internet, digital television, and in northern Europe through the Astra 2B satellite.

The station concentrates on music and artists that are not well supported by other radio stations, including classic archive concerts and sessions with the new UK artists.

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BBC Radio 7 is a British digital radio station from the BBC, broadcasting comedy, drama, documentary and children's programmes nationally, 24 hours a day. It is the principal broadcaster of the BBC's spoken-word archive, and as a result the majority of its programming originates from that archive. It also broadcasts extended and companion programmes to those broadcast on sister station BBC Radio 4, and provides a "catch-up" service for certain Radio 4 programmes.

Some programming is organised into programme blocks of similar programmes. The late night Comedy Club segment broadcasts "two hours of contemporary comedy" most nights of the week and is primarily hosted by Arthur Smith. Drama is also broadcast, notably in The 7th Dimension segment. A long-running segment continued from Radio 7, the block airs speculative fiction, science fiction, fantasy and horror stories presented by Nicholas Briggs. The segment contains programmes including Doctor Who audio dramas starring Paul McGann as the Eighth Doctor, as well as programmes imported from overseas including American broadcasts The Twilight Zone and Garrison Keillor's Radio Show as well as Stuart McLean's Vinyl Cafe from Canada.

The station's remit requires it to carry children's programming, which are broadcast in the form of two daily shows: CBeebies Radio which is aimed at younger children and consists of short serials, stories and rhymes that runs from 7am - 8am and is repeated at 3pm - 4pm and The Big Toe Radio Show which airs from 4pm - 6pm and consists of phone-ins, quizzes as well as stories intended for the 8+ age group.

BBC Radio 7 carries no news bulletins, with the exception of a daily bulletin aimed at younger listeners presented by the Newsround team at 7.55am on weekdays.

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BBC Asian Network is a British radio station operated by the BBC. The station's target audience are people aged 15–35 of South Asian (or desi) descent (Bangladeshi, Indian, Maldivian, Nepalese, Pakistani, Sri Lankan). The station has production centres in London (Broadcasting House) and Birmingham (The Mailbox).

BBC Asian Network broadcasts mainly in English, but also have programmes in five south Asian languages – Hindi/Urdu, Punjabi, Bengali, Gujarati and the Mirpuri dialect of the Potwari language and despite the name, is targeted at those of South Asian descent, or with an interest in South Asian affairs; with the majority of Asia not catered for. The station's output consists largely of music and talk programmes, although there is a daily documentary series Asian Network Reports. On Fridays at 4:00 p.m., the station broadcasts The Official Asian Music Chart, compiled by the Official Charts Company and based on sales and streams across a seven-day period.

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BBC Radio Scotland is a Scottish radio network operated by the BBC. It broadcasts a wide variety of programmes. It replaced the Scottish BBC Radio 4 opt-out service of the same name from 23 November 1978. Radio Scotland is broadcast in English, whilst sister station Radio nan Gaidheal broadcasts in Scottish Gaelic.

The station broadcasts a wide range of programming, including news, debate, music, drama, comedy and sports. News and current affairs programming has always constituted the dominant part of BBC Radio Scotland's schedules, especially on weekdays. In addition to regular, mostly hourly, news bulletins, the station broadcasts a wide range of longer, more in-depth news and current affairs strands.

Radio Scotland's music output is designed to cater for a wide range of tastes. BBC Radio Scotland carries most of the major sporting events linked to its coverage area, holding non-exclusive rights to the Scottish Professional Football League and producing several editions of its Sportsound programme on a multitude of frequencies on Saturdays during the season. The station also broadcasts live commentaries from both of Scotland's domestic football cup competitions, Scotland football internationals and European games affecting Scottish teams and the rugby union Six Nations championships.

BBC Radio Orkney and BBC Radio Shetland both air a half-hour daily news programme - Around Orkney (7:30am–8am) and Good Evening Shetland (5:30pm–6pm). During the winter months, this is supplemented for both areas by an hour-long programme, broadcast Monday-Friday, between 6:05pm and 7pm. Local news and weather bulletins are broadcast from news studios in Selkirk, Dumfries, Aberdeen and Inverness on weekdays at 6:30am, 7:30am, 8:30am, 12:30pm, 4:30pm and 5:30pm.

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BBC Radio nan Gàidheal is a Scottish radio station, broadcasting in Scottish Gaelic. It is operated by the BBC as part of its portfolio of television and radio services in Scotland.

The station is available from FM transmitters throughout Scotland: its service licence states that "BBC Radio nan Gàidheal should be available every day for general reception across Scotland on FM"; it can also be heard on digital television platforms, DAB Digital Radio, and online.

Radio nan Gàidheal broadcasts for over 90 hours every week, and joins BBC Radio Scotland's medium-wave feed when they close transmission. Radio nan Gàidheal frequently broadcasts important Scottish football matches providing Gaelic commentary.

The news is broadcast in three-minute bulletins five times a day during the week and three times a day on a Saturday.

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BBC Radio Wales is a Welsh radio station operated by the BBC. It began broadcasting on 13 November 1978, following the demise of the 'Radio 4 Wales' service (previously the Welsh Home Service) and BBC Radio 4's transformation into a national network, moving from medium wave to long wave. Radio Wales broadcasts in English, whilst sister station Radio Cymru has Welsh language programming.

BBC Radio Wales broadcasts each weekday from 5.30am - 1am and from 5am - 1am at weekends. The station simulcasts overnight programming from the BBC World Service after closedown every night.

Current programmes include the flagship breakfast and drive-time news programmes Good Morning Wales and Good Evening Wales, the current affairs phone-in Morning Call, magazine shows with Jason Mohammad (Monday–Wednesday), Wynne Evans and Eleri Siôn and the evening show with Janice Long.

Radio Wales Sport is broadcast on Saturdays, generally between 2pm and 7pm, during the football and rugby season (the programme is extended on occasions to include live commentary of early and late matches). Radio Wales Sport features localised FM commentary of Swansea City in the south west of Wales, Cardiff City in the south-east of Wales, and Wrexham in north Wales with a rolling service of match updates and results on medium wave.

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BBC Radio Cymru is a Welsh-language national radio network operated by BBC Cymru Wales, a division of the BBC. It broadcasts two stations throughout Wales from studios in Cardiff, Bangor, Aberystwyth and Carmarthen on FM, DAB, digital TV and online.

The main network broadcasts from 5:30am to midnight with overnight programming simulcast from BBC Radio 5 Live after closedown. A second station, Radio Cymru 2, broadcasts on digital and online platforms, and provides separate breakfast programming for two hours every morning.

Radio Cymru is similar in format to many "general" radio stations, with news programmes at breakfast (Post Cyntaf, 'First Post'), lunchtime (Taro'r Post – a debate-centred programme), and drive-time (Post Prynhawn, 'Afternoon Post'); together with presenter-driven sequences mixing music with chat to invited studio guests, calls from listeners, competitions etc. Radio Cymru also produces drama, features, current affairs, youth, and sports programming.

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BBC Radio Cymru 2 is a Welsh-language pop-up radio network operated by BBC Cymru Wales, a division of the BBC. The station lanuched on 29 January 2018.

BBC Radio Cymru 2 is broadcast across Wales on DAB. It is also available on Freeview in Wales, throughout the UK on Freesat, Sky, Virgin Media and internationally online.

The service airs from 6.30am-8.30am on weekdays, 7-9am on Saturdays and 8-10am on Sundays. The daily breakfast show are broadcast from Cardiff (Monday–Saturday) and Bangor (Sundays) with short news bulletins on weekdays from Aberystwyth, and serves as a music and entertainment alternative to the main network.

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BBC Radio Ulster is the BBC's Northern Irish radio station, broadcasting from Broadcasting House on Ormeau Avenue in Belfast city centre. It is a division of BBC Northern Ireland.

BBC Radio Ulster was established in January 1975, replacing what had been an opt-out of BBC Radio 4 (previously the BBC Northern Ireland Home Service) and as a result of the BBC's widely regarded under-reporting of the UWC Strike in May 1974.

The station is also broadcast on DAB Digital Radio, digital television and on the Internet. During the station's downtime, BBC Radio Ulster simulcasts BBC Radio 5 Live programming (weekdays from 12:00am-6:30am, Saturdays from 12:00am-6:45am and Sundays from 12:00am-7:00am).

It is the most widely listened to radio station in Northern Ireland with a diverse range of programmes, including news, talk, features, music and sport. News bulletins are broadcast usually on the hour seven days a week from 6:30 am until midnight.

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BBC Radio Foyle is a BBC Northern Ireland local radio station, serving County Londonderry in Northern Ireland. It is named after the River Foyle which flows through Derry, the city where the station is based. The station broadcasts from BBC's Northland Road studios on 93.1 FM and 792 MW in Derry, County Londonderry. BBC Radio Foyle is also available online and is carried on Freeview in Northern Ireland (occupying the slot held by BBC Radio nan Gàidheal in Scotland and by BBC Radio Cymru in Wales).

There is also a small television studio based there used for interviews with the interviewee sitting in front of a CSO screen which normally has a live view of Derry. Since it broadcasts from a point close to the County Donegal (Republic of Ireland) and County Londonderry border it includes some coverage of the former county.

BBC Radio Foyle is an opt-out from BBC Radio's main Northern Ireland service, BBC Radio Ulster. BBC Radio Foyle's weekday schedule begins at 7:00am and continues until 5:00pm. BBC Radio Foyle News bulletins air at 7.00am, 7.30am, 8.00am, 8.30am, 9.00am, 10.00am, 11.00am, 12.00pm, 1.00pm, 2.00pm, 3.00pm and 4.00pm on weekdays.

Weekend programming on BBC Radio Foyle have been cut back in recent years. On Saturdays apart from BBC Radio Foyle news bulletins at 9.00am, 10.00am, 11.00am and 12.00pm, there are no other opt-outs on the station, and BBC Radio Foyle airs the main BBC Radio Ulster programming. The local religious programme Rejoice with James McClelland continues to air on Sundays from after the 5.00pm news until 6.00pm. BBC Radio Foyle News on Sundays airs at 11.00am and 12.00pm only.