BBC
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is the United Kingdom’s national public broadcaster and one of the world’s most respected international media organizations. Founded in 1922, the BBC provides television, radio, and digital news coverage across the globe. It is widely known for journalism, documentaries, entertainment programming, and global news reporting.
Quick facts about BBC
- Founded in 1922 by a consortium of radio manufacturers (led by General Manager John Reith), it was state-chartered in 1927 to prevent commercial chaos and impose a strict "moral uplift" mission to inform, educate, and entertain.
- It stands as the world's oldest national broadcaster and the largest global news operation, maintaining over 50 foreign news bureaus and broadcasting in over 40 languages to a global weekly audience exceeding 400 million.
- Its worst institutional crisis hit in 2012 when rival network ITV revealed that top BBC presenter Jimmy Savile had been a prolific sexual predator for decades on BBC premises; the scandal deepened when it was exposed that the BBC's own investigative show, Newsnight, had killed its own probe into Savile a year earlier.
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