As a major part of the BBC News department, the channel is based at and broadcast from the News Centre within BBC Television Centre in West London.

Since Tuesday, 26 May 2009, those bulletins have been broadcast from TC7 and N6 in Television Centre, the main studios of BBC Breakfast and the BBC News Channel respectively.

KQED Public Television and Granada Television for PBS, Granada International and the BBC

When the infant BBC Television service was started in 1936, Rediffusion, which had supplied cable radio services since 1928, started providing " Pipe TV " to its customers who had difficulties tuning into the weak TV broadcast signal.

In addition to Egyptian programming, the Middle East Broadcast Company, a Saudi television station transmitting from London ( MBC ), Arab Radio and Television ( ART ), Al-Jazeera television, and other Gulf stations as well as Western networks such as CNN and BBC, provide access to more international programs to Egyptians who own satellite receivers.

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* 1938 – BBC Television produces the world's first ever science fiction television program, an adaptation of a section of the Karel Capek play R. U. R., that coined the term " robot ".

* Nuclear Secrets Superspy BBC Television, accessed 23 February 2007

Ian Carmichael, who played the part of Wimsey in the BBC Television series adaptation and studied the character and the books thoroughly, said that the character was Sayers ' conception of the ' ideal man ', based in part on her earlier romantic misfortunes.

( Cleese himself parodied this line in a 1986 BBC advert defending the Television Licence Fee: " What has the BBC ever given us?

Palin's first travel documentary was part of the 1980 BBC Television series Great Railway Journeys of the World, in which, humorously reminiscing about his childhood hobby of train spotting, he travelled throughout the UK by train, from London to the Kyle of Lochalsh, via Manchester, York, Newcastle upon Tyne, Edinburgh and Inverness.

This remix was nominated by Norman Cook as his favourite chillout track on BBC Television.

* 2001 – 4 March 2001 BBC bombing: a massive car bomb explodes in front of the BBC Television Centre in London, seriously injuring 1 person.

* 1936 – The British Broadcasting Corporation initiates the BBC Television Service, the world's first regular, " high-definition " ( then defined as at least 200 lines ) service.

The relative severity of various British profanities, as perceived by the public, was studied on behalf of the British Broadcasting Standards Commission, Independent Television Commission, BBC and Advertising Standards Authority ; the results of this jointly commissioned research were published in December 2000 in a paper called " Delete expletives ?".

This success turned Whitehouse and Higson's career, and they began to appear on shows such as Vic Reeves ' Big Night Out and extensively for the BBC, with Whitehouse appearing on A Bit of Fry and Laurie as a man with a clinical need to have his bottom fondled, and Paul Merton: The Series, then as performer on shows such as Harry Enfield's Television Programme, where he developed numerous characters including DJ Mike Smash of Smashie and Nicey alongside Harry Enfield as Nicey.

In 1996 in the BBC Television series Decisive Weapons which was narrated by Sean Bean.

The TARDIS used from 2005 to 2010 on display at BBC Television Centre

Television versions include the 1974 BBC TV movie, Alice Through the Looking Glass, with Sarah Sutton playing Alice, a 1982 38-minute Soviet cutout-animated film made by Kievnauchfilm studio and directed by Yefrem Pruzhanskiy, an animated TV movie in 1987, with Janet Waldo as the voice of Alice ( Mr. T was the voice of the Jabberwock ) and the 1998 Channel 4 TV movie, with Kate Beckinsale playing the role of Alice.

The popular British Television show Doctor Who featured the Transcontinental Railroad in a BBC audio book entitled The Runaway Train, read by Matt Smith and written for audio by Oli Smith.

In a 1997 BBC interview, Paul McCartney stated: " If anyone was the fifth Beatle, it was manager Brian Epstein.

BBC disc jockey John Peel said of the album: " If there has been anything in the history of popular music which could be described as a work of art in a way that people who are involved in other areas of art would understand, then Trout Mask Replica is probably that work.

Other major screen roles include the obsessed Nazi Colonel in The Train ( 1964 ), Strether in a 1977 TV adaptation of Henry James's novel The Ambassadors, Tobias in A Delicate Balance ( 1973 ), Professor Moroi in the film of János Nyíri's If Winter Comes ( 1980 ), for BBC Television, Mark Van Doren in Robert Redford's film Quiz Show ( 1994 ), and Thomas Danforth in Nicholas Hytner's film adaptation ( 1996 ) of Arthur Miller's The Crucible.

If telerecordings were made of a work and that work was then acquired by another party, then the recording had to be destroyed – this happened in 1955 when 20th Century Fox acquired the rights to Anastasia and the 1953 BBC telerecording of the play had to be destroyed ( although the lostshows. com website states that recordings of both performances still survive ).

The building featured in the BBC Four 2010 series Churches: How to read them, in which Dr Richard Taylor named it as one of his ten favourite churches, saying: " If buildings have an aura, this one radiated friendship.

From 1984 to 1989 he was the lead role of Martin Bryce in Ever Decreasing Circles, and in 1993 took the lead role of Godfrey Spry in the BBC comedy drama If You See God, Tell Him.

During the same debate, Smith referred to a recent Government defeat in the Newbury by-election, a poor showing in the local elections, and a subsequent Cabinet reshuffle by saying that, " If we were to offer that tale of events to the BBC Light Entertainment Department as a script for a programme, I think that the producers of Yes Minister would have turned it down as hopelessly over the top.

He also became a regular panelist on the popular BBC radio show Just a Minute, and had a chat show on BBC Television, If It's Saturday, It Must Be Nimmo, from 24 October to 19 December 1970, though it was felt that he seemed less at ease as a chat show host.

These " enthusiastic amateurs " became GoFasterStripe and, having set themselves up in order to film the show, have gone on to film the works of many other " non-mainstream " comedians, including sets from Tony Law ( Lee's support act on the 2009 If You Prefer A Milder Comedian, Please Ask For One tour ), Simon Munnery ( whose BBC television comedy series-Attention Scum-was directed by Lee ) and several by Lee's former partner Richard Herring.

" Similarly, in a 1984 interview on BBC Radio 1, Waters said " If somebody said to me now – right – here's a million pounds, go out and play Atom Heart Mother, I'd say you must be fucking joking.

* If ... ( TV series ), a series of BBC drama-documentaries

* If I Ruled the World BBC Two ( 1998 ).

" If the British government won't put its own house in order, you mustn't be surprised if there are some of us who will try to find someone else who will make them put their house in order ," he told BBC Radio 4's World at One programme.

There were redundancies and downsizing ; staff members who retired or left for other jobs were replaced by people on contract, often short-term contract, and it ’ s difficult to build a career, or a life, like that .” Even Marmaduke Hussey, who appointed Birt to his BBC role, later claimed to have regrets: " If I'd been reappointed as chairman I would have got rid of him.

* Not If It Pleases Me ( BBC sessions 1976 – 77 ), 1998

Brought by Humphrey Barclay to London Weekend Television, originally to repeat his " nursery slopes comedy " Do Not Adjust Your Set with End of Part One, Marshall and Renwick went on to write a series of television satires, including Whoops Apocalypse, Hot Metal and If You See God, Tell Him — the latter originally for Channel 4, but postponed for several years when the channel refused to let them direct it, and finally ending up at the BBC later.

* If You See God, Tell Him ( BBC )

In a 2010 interview with The Telegraph, La Plante complained, “ If my name were Usafi Iqbadal and I was 19, then they ’ d probably bring me in and talk .” “ But ... it ’ s their lack of respect that really grates on me .” She went on to say, " If you were to go to the BBC and say to them, ‘ Listen, Lynda La Plante ’ s written a new drama, or I have this little Muslim boy who's just written one ’, they ’ d say: ‘ Oh, we ’ d like to see his script .’” Ben Stephenson ( BBC Controller of Drama ) responded, " She has one piece at the moment, and one that we paid fully for the script development.

The opening song on the first night, " As If We Never Said Goodbye ", was recorded and transmitted on BBC TV's Top of the Pops.

Shortly before the 2005 General Election he opened a question to Labour politician Ed Balls " If we win the election ...", which led to criticism that he was not neutral as required of BBC political journalists.

Dudley won the " Best Original Musical or Comedy Score " Oscar for her music ; The Gathering ( 2002 ) a Anthony Horowitz thriller directed by Brian Gilbert and starring Christina Ricci ; The Grotesque ( 1997 ) released in the US as Gentlemen Don't Eat Poets a British film starring Alan Bates, Theresa Russell and Sting ; Hollow Reed ( 1996 ) a drama directed by Angela Pope and set in Bath ; Knight Moves ( 1992 ) American thriller directed by Carl Schenkel and starring Christopher Lambert ; Lucky Break ( 2001 ) a British feelgood comedy starring James Nesbitt and based around a prison escape ; The Miracle Maker ( 2000 ) an animated feature film made for TV by BBC Wales with Russian model makers ; Monkeybone ( 2001 ) an American film combining live-action and stop-motion animation starring Brendan Fraser and Bridget Fonda ; Perfect Creature ( 2007 ) a New Zealand made horror / thriller film starring Leo Gregory ; Pushing Tin ( 1999 ) a comedy-drama film directed by Mike Newell based around air traffic controllers in New York ; The Pope Must Die ( 1991 ) a comedy film starring Robbie Coltrane the score was co-written with Jeff Beck ; Silence Like Glass ( Zwei Frauen ) ( 1989 ) German made but set in a cancer ward at a hospital in America ; Tristan & Isolde ( 2006 ) a Ridley Scott romantic drama based on the medieval romantic legend of Tristan and Iseult and starring James Franco and Sophia Myles ; The Walker ( 2007 ) a drama written and directed by Paul Schrader set in Washington, D. C .; Her TV music includes scores for all episodes of Jeeves and Wooster with Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie ; Lynda La Plante's Above Suspicion ; Kavanagh QC with John Thaw and The Tenth Kingdom an American epic fantasy TV miniseries written by Simon Moore.

* BBC: Moves to outlaw Turkish Islamic Party

Leung appeared on episode 1 of the first season of the BBC show Mind, Body & Kick Ass Moves ; a 10 part series on martial arts masters of the east hosted by Chris Crudelli.

He also presented his own classic car series The Car's The Star, along with the first property show to talk about money, All The Right Moves, both for the BBC.

* Sierra Leone Moves into Slave Tourism BBC News, June 28, 2012