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BBC Research


Founded - 18 October 1922, London

Founded in - London

Founded by - John Reith and the Government

Owned by - the Government

Revenue - 4.889 billion GBP in 2019


Funding 

The BBC 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 TV licence fee in the uk is £157.50 for a coloured tv (£53 for black and white TV sets).


Mission statement - 

"to act in the public interest, serving all audiences through the provision of impartial, high-quality and distinctive output and services which inform, educate and entertain".


The royal Charter also set 5 objectives for the BBC to fufill:

  1. To provide impartial news and information to help people understand and engage with the world around them

  2. To support learning for people of all ages

  3. To show the most creative, highest quality and distinctive output and services

  4. To reflect, represent and serve the diverse communities of all of the United Kingdom’s nations and regions and, in doing so, support the creative economy across the United Kingdom

  5. To reflect the United Kingdom, its culture and values to the world


The BBC states on their website a few values which they stick to in any production of a media product

  1. Trust is the foundation of the BBC. We’re independent, impartial and honest

  2. We put audiences at the heart of everything we do

  3. We respect each other and celebrate our diversity

  4. We take pride in delivering quality and value for money

  5. Creativity is the lifeblood of our organisation

  6. We’re one BBC. Great things happen when we work together


Regulation

Ofcom is the UK's broadcasting, telecommunications and postal regulatory body. It became the BBC's first external regulator in 2017.


The bbc boast a portfolio of :

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  • A portfolio of television services, including the UK’s most-watched channel BBC One, the pioneering online-only youth service BBC Three, and our multi award-winning channels for children, as well as national and regional television programmes and services across England. Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales

  • Ten UK-wide radio networks, providing the best live music broadcasting in the UK, as well as speech radio which informs, educates and entertains. We also have two national radio services each in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland and 39 local radio stations across England and the Channel Islands, providing an invaluable and unique service to listeners across the UK

  • Our digital services including BBC News, Sport, Weather CBBC and CBeebies, iPlayer and BBC Sounds, BBC Red Button and our vast archive

  • BBC World Service television, radio and online on more than 40 languages


I counted the different service that the bbc offers and there where 40. These include BBC News, BBC Weather, BBC Radio and BBC Brazil.




Fun fact

One in every 16 adults around the world uses BBC News. The broadcaster receives £3.7bn a year. Sky's annual income is nearly double that, but it produces a tiny proportion of original programming. The BBC accounts for 40-plus per cent of the total investment in UK original content.


BBC Films


Founded - 18 June 1990

Annual budget - £12 million (2010)


BBC Films co-produces around eight films a year, working in partnership with major international and UK distributors.


Since its founding, BBC films has produced and co produced over 500 movies and short films.

Here is a link to the BBC films catalogue

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfilms/catalogue?filter=&page=21


Distribution

Upon more research into how the bbc distributes its movies and there distribution policies i found that -

The bbc has a bunch of policies when distributing to make sure it sticks to its mission statement 

These are :

  1. Prominence - the placement of BBC content and services relative to those of other providers should be in line with audience needs and expectations

  2. Editorial control - the BBC should retain editorial control of its content and its placement

  3. Branding and attribution - users should be able to easily identify which content on a platform is provided by the BBC

  4. Quality - users should be able to enjoy a high quality experience of BBC content and services

  5. Data - the BBC should have access to data about the usage of its services

  6. Free access - users should incur no incremental cost to access BBC content and services

  7. Value for money - BBC distribution arrangements should maximise cost-effectiveness of distribution to the licence fee payer.


Here is a link that i found to the BBC’s full distribution policy - http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/aboutthebbc/insidethebbc/howwework/policiesandguidelines/pdf/bbc_distribution_policy.pdf


The performance of BBC Films features on television has been variable, ranging from relatively low audiences of under 500,000 for some films through to over 5 million for others.

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