NOW Digital broadcasts from the East Casterton transmitter covering the town and Spalding, which provides the Peterborough 12D multiplex ( BBC Radio Cambridgeshire and Hereward FM ).

DAB broadcasts from Fishpond's Hill began on 21 July 2006 with the NOW Nottingham multiplex, subsequently the Digital One and BBC National muxes were also added ( during 2006-07 ) to give excellent digital radio reception across the town.

A mast at Sudbury ( near Assington ), which is the main TV transmitter for South Suffolk, has the NOW Digital Essex 12D multiplex, which has BBC Essex, even though the mast is in Suffolk.

The Madingley transmitter also carries national FM BBC radio, analogue Five television, Digital One, BBC National DAB, Heart Cambridgeshire and Kiss 105-108 East on 105. 6FM as well as the NOW Cambridge DAB multiplex.

BBC CWR went digital shortly after the launch of the local DAB multiplex on 31 January 2001 with NOW Digital 12D Coventry in the Coventry area with transmissions from Samuel Vale House ( central Coventry ), Barwell Water Tower near Hinckley, Meriden and Leamington Spa.

Gerald Finley ; BBC NOW / Richard Hickox.

Phase 2 of the Centre is home to the BBC National Orchestra of Wales ( BBC NOW ) and the BBC National Chorus of Wales.

BBC NOW moved from Studio 1 at Broadcasting House in Llandaff, which the orchestra had outgrown since the late 1960s.

Phase 2 opened on 22 January 2009 with an inaugural concert performed by the BBC NOW and conducted by Thierry Fischer.

The BBC National Orchestra of Wales ( BBC NOW ) () is a Welsh symphony orchestra and one of the BBC's five professional orchestras.

The BBC NOW is the only professional symphony orchestra organisation in Wales, occupying a dual role as both a broadcasting orchestra and national orchestra.

The BBC NOW has its administrative base in Cardiff, at the BBC Hoddinott Hall on the site of the Wales Millennium Centre, since January 2009.

The precursor ensemble of the BBC NOW was the Cardiff Station Orchestra, which was founded in 1928.

The current principal conductor of the BBC NOW is Thierry Fischer, since September 2006.

He is scheduled to conclude his BBC NOW tenure after the 2011-2012 season.

Since 2008, François-Xavier Roth has held the title of associate guest conductor of the BBC NOW.

In July 2011, the BBC NOW announced the appointment of Thomas Søndergård as its 14th principal conductor, effective with the 2012-2013 season, for an initial contract of 4 years.

* BBC NOW official home page

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.

*" The Library at Ninevah ", In our Time — BBC Radio 4

His last game was against Chelsea at Stamford Bridge on 28 April 1973, and before the game the BBC cameras for Match of the Day captured the Chelsea chairman handing Charlton a commemorative cigarette case.

Four of the most notable English Abbeys are the Basilica of St Gregory the Great at Downside, commonly known as Downside Abbey, Ealing Abbey in Ealing, West London and St. Lawrence's in Yorkshire ( Ampleforth Abbey ) and Worth Abbey which has appeared in two BBC2 TV programmes ; ' The Monastery ( BBC TV series )' and ' The Big Silence '.

Scott Mills presented his show from 4: 00 pm to 7: 00 pm live from the BBC Bubble in Edinburgh, as did Nick Grimshaw with his show at 10: 00 pm.

The use of letter " i " prefixes and suffixes to denote information technology or interactivity was very much in vogue at this time, notably with the launch of the iMac and the iPod by Apple Computer ; according to the BBC, the " i " in BBCi stood for " interactivity " as well as " innovation ".

The channel launched as BBC News 24 on 9 November 1997 at 17: 30 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.

Its sister services, BBC World was also renamed as " BBC World News " while the national news bulletins became BBC News at One, BBC News at Six and BBC News at Ten.

A further announcement by Head of television news Peter Horrocks came at the same time as Bakhurst's appointment in which he outlined his plan to provide more funding and resources for the channel and shift the corporation's emphasis regarding news away from the traditional BBC One bulletins and across to the rolling news channel.