On 1 October 2007, BBC World News started broadcasting BBC World News America and World News Today at 00: 00 and 03: 00 UKT respectively.

BBC World News America used to be aired as a reduced length, tape-delayed version at 00: 30 UKT.

* 1978: Dylan: Life and Death of a Poet, a BBC Wales film of Thomas ' final two visits to America ; directed by Richard Lewis.

Conversely, BBC critic Mark Kermode believes that " the movie industries of Britain and America are inextricably intertwined ", citing numerous examples of how Hollywood provides work to British production staff and studios, whilst Britain enables Hollywood to base their prestigious productions at UK studios.

Radio stations like BBC, Radio France Internationale, China Radio International, Voice of Russia, Voice of America, Deutsche Welle, and IRIB broadcast in Hausa.

The BBC, Deutsche Welle and Voice of America offer Hausa services on their international news web sites using Kananci.

International short wave radio stations such as The Voice of America, BBC, and Radio Ceylon played a major part in bringing Western pop, folk, and rock music to the masses.

The doughnut claim has since been repeated by media such as the BBC ( by Alistair Cooke in his Letter from America program ), The Guardian, MSNBC, CNN, Time magazine, and The New York Times ; mentioned in several books about Germany written by English-speaking authors, including Norman Davies and Kenneth C. Davis ; and used in the manual for the Speech Synthesis Markup Language.

* " Naming of America ", BBC.

( When shown in the United States on BBC America, the show was titled Brilliant.

According to the BBC, America went back on this promise, effectively destroying the deal.

It is also common for BBC programmes to air on traditionally Voice of America or ORF transmitters, while their programming is relayed by a station physically located in the UK.

Television credits include choreographing Sue's Leg ( 1976 ) for the inaugural episode of the PBS program Dance in America ,; co-producing and directing Making Television Dance ( 1977 ), which won the Chicago International Film Festival Award ; and directing The Catherine Wheel ( 1983 ) for BBC Television.

British sitcoms are often seen on the Public Broadcasting Service and increasingly on cable television, including BBC America and Comedy Central.

In the U. S., the first of the 3 new 20th anniversary specials aired in January 2012 for broadcast by both BBC America and Logo Channel.

BBC America appears not to have removed any scenes.

" He presented on BBC America and BBC World a weekly compilation of highlights from the domestic edition of Newsnight from February 2008 until shortly after the 2008 U. S. election, when the American programme was cancelled.

Repeats of the British series moved to BBC America in April 2006 ; however, the network has not shown any episodes taped before 1994.

On June 17, 1985, The Discovery Channel was launched with $ 5 million in start-up capital from several investors ( including BBC, Allen & Company and Venture America ).

In the United States, As Time Goes By has been repeated on PBS and on BBC America.

In another BBC documentary, Prehistoric America, Megatherium is depicted as an herbivore.

Her other work includes being the face of Barclays Bank and BBC America.

The series has become very popular in the United States on PBS stations and on BBC America, as well as in many Commonwealth nations around the world.

Several biographical programs have been made, such as the 2004 BBC television programme entitled Agatha Christie: A Life in Pictures, in which she is portrayed by Olivia Williams, Anna Massey, and Bonnie Wright.

* 1930 – BBC Radio announces that there is no news on that day.

It is referred to colloquially as " the Queen's English ", " Oxford English " and " BBC English ", although by no means all who live in Oxford speak with such accent and the BBC does not require or use it exclusively.

The Acorn Electron is a budget version of the BBC Micro educational / home computer made by Acorn Computers Ltd.

Because the WD1770 is capable of single density mode and uses the same IBM360 derived floppy disc format as the Intel 8271 found in the BBC Micro, it was also possible to run a DFS filing system with an alternate ROM, such as the P. R. E. S AP4 interface.

The Electron is widely misquoted as operating at 1. 79 MHz after measurements derived from speed testing against the thoroughly 2 MHz BBC Micro for various pieces of ' common software '

Note that this is subtly different to the ' thanks ' list in the original BBC Model B.

* 1972 – First edition of the BBC comedy panel game I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue is broadcast, one of the longest running British radio shows in history.

In the BBC Three Sitcom Mongrels the character of Destiny is an Afghan Hound.

The wave of arson in the South Bronx in the 1960s and 1970s inspired the observation that " The Bronx is burning ": in 1974 it was the title of both a New York Times editorial and a BBC documentary film.

Blackadder is the name that encompassed four series of a BBC One period British sitcom, along with several one-off instalments.

BBC Radio 1 is a British national radio station operated by the British Broadcasting Corporation which also broadcasts internationally, specialising in current popular music and chart hits throughout the day.

BBC Red Button is a branding used for digital interactive television services provided by the BBC, and broadcast in the United Kingdom.

BBC Red Button is broadcast on all digital television platforms in the UK, including digital cable ( DVB-C ), IPTV ( TalkTalk TV – channel 503, no red button or teletext ), digital satellite ( DVB-S ) ( Sky & Freesat ) and digital terrestrial television ( DVB-T ) ( Freeview ).

BBC Red Button is also available on Sky in the Republic of Ireland through BBC One, Two, Three or Four on channels 141, 142, 210 and 211 respectively.

Here is a table of the contents of the BBC Red Button ( as of December 2009 )

* Baldrick is a character in the BBC comedy series Blackadder played by Tony Robinson.

Lara was awarded the Wisden Leading Cricketer in the World awards in 1994 and 1995 and is also one of only three cricketers to receive the prestigious BBC Overseas Sports Personality of the Year, the other two being Sir Garfield Sobers and Shane Warne.

BBC News ( also referred to as the BBC News Channel ) is the BBC's 24-hour rolling news television network in the United Kingdom.

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.