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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.
* BBC Television.
* 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.

BBC and Shakespeare
Notable made-for-television productions of Hamlet include those starring Christopher Plummer ( 1964 ), Richard Chamberlain ( 1970 ; Hallmark Hall of Fame ), Derek Jacobi ( 1980 ; Royal Shakespeare Company, BBC ), Kevin Kline ( 1990 ), Campbell Scott ( 2000 ) and David Tennant ( 2009 ; Royal Shakespeare Company, BBC ).
Ron Cook, then 35, in the 1983 BBC Shakespeare production of the play, was closest in age, and bore some facial resemblance to the Society of Antiquaries portrait.
* Dorian Ford in the 1983 BBC Shakespeare version.
* Spike Hood provided his voice in the 1994 BBC series Shakespeare: The Animated Tales.
On screen he has been portrayed by Eduard Franz in the film Lady Godiva of Coventry ( 1955 ), George Howe in the BBC TV drama series Hereward the Wake ( 1965 ), Donald Eccles in the two-part BBC TV play Conquest ( 1966 ; part of the series Theatre 625 ), Brian Blessed in Macbeth ( 1997 ), based on the Shakespeare play ( although he does not appear in the play itself ), and Adam Woodroffe in an episode of the British TV series Historyonics entitled " 1066 " ( 2004 ).
As a child he has been portrayed by Dora Senior in the 1899 silent short King John ( 1899 ), a version of John's death scene from Shakespeare's King John, and by Rusty Livingstone in the 1984 BBC Television Shakespeare version of the play.
He played the title role in the BBC Television Shakespeare production of The Life and Death of King John ( 1984 ).
* Phil Daniels, in the 1981 BBC Shakespeare television production
Jonathan Miller has twice directed Michael Hordern in the title role for English television, the first for the BBC's Play of the Month in 1975 and the second for the BBC Television Shakespeare in 1982.
In 1985, the BBC produced a version of the play for their BBC Television Shakespeare series.
Young Lucius stares at the body of Aaron's baby in Jane Howell's adaptation for the BBC Television Shakespeare ; in the background, his father is being inaugurated as the new emperor
In 1923, extracts were broadcast on BBC Radio 1, performed by the Cardiff Station Repertory Company as the second episode of a series of programs showcasing Shakespeare's plays, entitled Shakespeare Night.
* ( BBC Television Shakespeare Version ).
Shown on PBS in the United States as part of the BBC Shakespeare series.
# Katherina's speech is sincere and Petruchio has successfully tamed her ( this is how it is presented in the 1983 BBC Shakespeare adaptation, for example ).
John Cleese and Sarah Badel in the BBC Shakespeare adaptation
In 1980, the BBC produced a version of the play for their BBC Shakespeare series, directed by Jonathan Miller and starring John Cleese and Sarah Badel.
Cleese had never performed Shakespeare before, and was not a fan of the first two seasons of the BBC Television Shakespeare, and took some persuading from Miller that the BBC Shrew would not be, as Cleese feared " about a lot of furniture being knocked over, a lot of wine being spilled, a lot of thighs being slapped and a lot of unmotivated laughter.

BBC and version
The Acorn Electron is a budget version of the BBC Micro educational / home computer made by Acorn Computers Ltd.
BBC World News America used to be aired as a reduced length, tape-delayed version at 00: 30 UKT.
Jenny Abramsky had originally planned to have a television version of the informal news radio channel BBC Radio 5 Live, or a TV version of Radio 4 News FM both of which she had run.
A full three minute version of the countdown music was made available on BBC News Online and David Lowe's own after a remix on 16 May 2006.
An international version of the countdown was launched on BBC World News on 5 September 2005 featuring more international content and similar music.
A version also exists for the BBC Micro on public domain though never officially released.
A version of " Two Tribes " was originally recorded for a BBC John Peel session in October 1982.
However, BBC books such as The Infinity Doctors and Unnatural History imply that the Doctor's origin is complex and that every version is somehow " true " ( such as Susan's claim in the original version of An Unearthly Child that she was born in the 49th century ).
The BBC understands € 500 million (£ 440M ) will become available to make the extra purchase, taking Europe's version of GPS from 18 operational satellites in the next few years to 24.
There is no Island-specific opt-out of the BBC regional news programme North West Tonight, in the way that the Channel Islands get their own version of Spotlight.
In the original series, which ran on Radio 4 from 1973 – 83, no adaptation was made of the seminal Gaudy Night, perhaps because the leading character in this novel is Harriet and not Peter ; this was corrected in 2005 when a version specially recorded for the BBC Radio Collection was released starring Carmichael and Joanna David.
There is also a 90-minute BBC radio version, starring Richard Pearce ( BBC Radio's Tintin, as well ) as John Trenchard.
The book has been adapted for film and television a number of times, including a 1981 serial for TV directed by Rodney Bennett ; a 1995 movie adapted by Emma Thompson and directed by Ang Lee ; a version in Tamil called Kandukondain Kandukondain, released in 2000 ; and a 2008 TV series on BBC adapted by Andrew Davies and directed by John Alexander.
In 2002 a two-person version of Bourne's design was built for the BBC TV programme Building the Impossible by Mark Edwards, and successfully rowed under water at Dorney Lake, Eton.
* Sweeney Todd ( 2006 ), a BBC television drama version with a screenplay written by Joshua St Johnston and starring Ray Winstone in the title role and Essie Davis as Mrs Lovett.
* BBC 1972 version w / Nicol Williamson & wife Jill Townsend at IMDB
An edited version of " Club Country " appeared in the second series finale of the BBC drama Ashes to Ashes, set in 1982.
In 1991, the BBC broadcast a new version of John Barton's ' The War that Never Ends ', which had first been performed on stage in the 1960s.
The Flower Pot Men is a British children's programme, produced by BBC television, first transmitted in 1952, and repeated regularly for more than twenty years, which was produced in a new version in 2000.
The four-act version was first played on the radio in a BBC production and is still sometimes performed.
In 1977, BBC Radio 4 broadcast the first radio adaptation of the four-act version of the play ; directed by Ian Cotterell, it featured Fabia Drake as " Lady Bracknell ", Richard Pasco as " Jack Worthing ", Jeremy Clyde as " Algernon Moncrieff ", Maurice Denham as " Rev.
In 1941 BBC radio presented a radio play version, and in 1948, another television adaptation – this time of the entire play, running to ninety minutes – was screened by the BBC.

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