Today, the broadcaster's online video player, the BBC iPlayer, reflects the branding legacy by retaining an i-prefix in its branding.

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.

World News Today was simulcast on the BBC News channel at 0300UKT.

A campaign is currently underway ( reported on BBC Radio 4, Today programme, 10 July 2004 ) to encourage emigration from the UK to Saint Helena to aid development of the economy.

This ban was lampooned in cartoons and satirical TV shows, such as Spitting Image, and in The Day Today and was criticised by freedom of speech organisations and British media personalities, including BBC Director General John Birt and BBC foreign editor John Simpson.

* 31 December 1999: the BBC Balloon was Flying during 2000 Today and used throughout 2000

Local TV content is currently provided by BBC Midlands Today and ITV Central News.

BBC Radio 4 is notable for its consistent news bulletins and programmes such as Today and The World at One, which are heralded on air by the Greenwich Time Signal " pips " or the chimes of Big Ben.

The village suffered badly from the floods of 2007 and local residents were seen on the local BBC news network, Midlands Today.

Today, most programmes are pre-recorded and it is relatively inexpensive to preserve programming for posterity ; even so, the BBC Charter makes no mention of any obligation to retain all of them.

The BBC play Bar Mitzvah Boy is a British television play, written by Jack Rosenthal and originally transmitted in the Play for Today anthology series on BBC1.

In September 2002, Streatham High Road was voted the " Worst Street in Britain " in a poll organised by the BBC Today programme and CABE.

Today, White City is home to the BBC Television Centre and BBC White City, and Loftus Road stadium, the home of football club Queens Park Rangers FC.

Today, the 1908 Olympics are commemorated with a list of athletes inscribed on the side of the BBC Broadcast Centre Building, and the athletics finish line is marked in the paving outside the building.

One of Ulverston's lesser known sons is the late Bryan Martin, senior BBC Radio 4 Newsreader and Presenter of the 70s and 80s, whose dulcet tones on the " Today " programme announced to the country the death of Elvis Presley in 1977 and broke the news of the Iranian Embassy siege in 1980.

** Guest editor on BBC Radio 4 Today program.

The service is aimed at the overseas market, similar to BBC World News, Press TV, DW-TV, France 24 and Russia Today, and broadcast through satellite and cable operators throughout the world.

* The Today Programme, BBC Radio 4, 4 October 2006.

* The Day Today ( BBC Two, spoof news series ) 1994

In five years CAIR officials were cited over 11, 000 times by media, including CNN, MSNBC, BBC, ABC, Fox, NBC, CBS, Washington Post, USA Today, and the New York Times.

" The reality is that with £ 26, 000 a year, it ’ s very difficult to believe that families will be plunged into poverty – children or adults ," he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.

Today ( sometimes referred to as " the Today programme " to avoid ambiguity ) is BBC Radio 4's long-running early morning news and current affairs programme, now broadcast from 6. 00 am to 9. 00 am Monday to Friday, and 7. 00 am to 9. 00 am on Saturdays.

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

Another instrumental called " Brother " was used as the theme to the BBC Radio 1 Top 20 / 40 when Tom Browne / Simon Bates presented the programme in the 1970s.

The BBC Governors ' annual report for 2005 / 2006 reported that average audience figures for fifteen minute periods had reached 8. 6 % in multichannel homes, up from 7. 8 % in 2004 / 2005.

It is expected that the BBC News Channel will relocate, along with other BBC news services including BBC World News to the newly refurbished Broadcasting House in late 2012 / early 2013, after completion of the new television news studios has taken place and it will be relaunched.

* Cleopatra ( Rome character ), in the HBO / BBC television series Rome

* The Human Sexes ( 1997 ) — Discovery / BBC documentary TV series

A broad range of peripherals exist for the Dragon 32 / 64, and on top of this there are add-ons such as the Dragon's Claw which give the Dragons access to the BBC Micro's large range of accessories ( a particularly important factor in the UK home market ).

' Freeview video by the Vega Science Trust and the BBC / OU.

* Great Rift: Africa's wild heart ( TV series ) A BBC / Animal Planet production

* Simon Schama, A History of Britain: At the Edge of the World, 3500 BC – 1603 AD BBC / Miramax, 2000 ISBN 0-7868-6675-6 ; TV series A History of Britain, Volume 2: The Wars of the British 1603 – 1776 BBC / Miramax, 2001 ISBN 0-7868-6675-6 ; A History of Britain-The Complete Collection on DVD BBC 2002

In the 1980s comedian Andy Cameron presented the Hogmanay show on BBC Scotland while Peter Morrison presented a show called " A Highland Hogmanay " on STV / Grampian.

BBC Radio 3 commonly makes use of three ISDN BRIs to carry 320 kbit / s audio stream for live outside broadcasts.

* BBC Radio Jersey 88. 8fm, 1026 mW & bbc. co. uk / jersey

* Edward Baker-Duly in the 2010 BBC Wales / Masterpiece TV production Upstairs, Downstairs

In 2006, in response to 9 / 11 conspiracy theories surrounding its original news story, the BBC said that confusion had arisen with the common Arabic names, and that its later reports on the hijackers superseded its original story.

* In the final episode of the BBC time travel / cop show Ashes to Ashes ( Series 3, Episode 8 ), it is revealed that the world that Alex Drake awoke to after being shot, which Sam Tyler described and that other major characters inhabit, is a kind of Limbo, one seemingly specifically for members of the police force, who had died in violent or sudden ways, with Gene Hunt taking on a role similar to that of a Psychopomp or Charon of Greek mythology, helping " the troubled souls of Her Majesty's Constabulary " accept their deaths and move on to Heaven.

Anne Dudley ( born Anne Jennifer Beckingham, 7 May 1956, Chatham, Kent ) is an English composer and pop musician, and was the first BBC Concert Orchestra's Composer in Association in 2001.

Blackburn co-presented the BBC Children In Need programme with Caroline Feraday, from Dickens World in Chatham, Kent for the BBC South East region on 14 November 2008.

BBC Radio Kent also operates a studio and office in The Wendy House ( a building close to the original Sun Pier site in Chatham ), and small contributions studios in Dover and Canterbury.