The first color television broadcast between London y New York It took place in 1928. However, in the United Kingdom there is a tax paid for watching television that amounts to about 145,50 pounds sterling yearly. It serves to finance the BBC, since it is a public entity. Here are the programs that the BBC and other popular channels have.
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BBC television channels
In addition to providing services radio in the UK, the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) also provides television service. This British television station based at the Broadcasting House, in LondonIs a public company which operates under the mandate of a royal charter.
Since its founding in 1922, when it began its journey in the world of media in the form of radio, the BBC's TV channels have become the most watched in the whole country. Below we list the different options available.
BBC One
Although the BBC operates several television channels across the country, undoubtedly the most iconic is BBC One. As its name suggests, it is the first BBC television channel, whose inauguration took place in 1936 under the name (no longer in use) BBC Television Service, later abbreviated to BBC Television. It should be noted that its programming is not interrupted by advertising breaks.
The type of programs that can be enjoyed on BBC One are those of a general and informative nature. However, this television offer must always maintain its values as a public service, since we must not forget that the BBC belongs to the State.
Thus, within the total annual hours of BBC One, it could be said that 2.500 correspond to the broadcast of informative, documentary and entertainment programs. As a summary, in the following list you can find the most popular current programs of BBC One:
- Series and soap operas: Doctor Who, Sherlock, EastEnders, Luther, S, Merlin, New Tricks, The Apprentice, Holby City, Death in paradise, Call the Midwife, Walking the Dead, Outnumbered, Keeping Up Appearances, The Musketeers.
- Entertainment programs: Strictly Come Dancing, The Great British Bake Off, Top of the Pops, The Voice UK.
- talk shows or talk shows: The Graham Norton Show.
- Documentaries: BBC Panorama, Planet Earth.
- Sports programs: Match of the Day.
For example, among the main informative programs, included under the name BBC News, perhaps the most notable and with the highest audience rate is the so-called BBC Breakfast, as well as the news at 13:00 p.m., 18:00 p.m. and 22:00 p.m.
Weather broadcasts, breaking events and political shows are also among the most watched. You can access the website of this chain by clicking on this link.
In the following video you can see a trailer on the typical programming for the fall / winter season on the BBC One channel:
It should also be added that although BBC One is a national television service, that is, it can be seen from any of the four nations that make up the United Kingdom, at certain times of the day it offers exclusion options to make way for local news and programs.
These variations occur more frequently in the call BBC Nations, which is broadcast in Northern Ireland, Wales and Scotland. The schedules of the different programs emitted in these nations can vary considerably with respect to England.
BBC Two
Second, highlights the channel BBC Two, whose start-up began in 1964 and does not include advertising in its programming. In addition, it is considered the first European TV station to broadcast its programming in color since 1967.
The type of productions shown on this television channel are characterized by being focused on a minority audience from the cultural and educational perspective. In summary, it can be said that the type of format used on this channel is more risky and innovative than that used on BBC One.
In fact, it is common for the most successful programs on BBC Two to end up being transferred to BBC One, as was the case with Have I Got News For You. If you want to access the BBC Two website, you can do so by clicking on this link.
In the following list you will find the most popular programs in the history of BBC Two according to their corresponding genre, so that it can be seen that it is clearly comedies that have the highest audience rates:
- Business: The Money Program.
- Documentaries: Sand, Louis Theroux's Weird Weekends.
- Comedy: Fawlty Towers, Red Dwarf, Mary Whitehouse Experience, The Day Today, Room 101, I'm alan partridge, Goodness Gracious Me, League of Gentlemen, Coupling, The Office, The Kumars at No. 42, Dead Ringers.
- Surreal comedy: Shooting Stars, Never Mind The Buzzcocks.
- Motor Sports: Top Gear.
- News: Newsnight.
- Music: TOTP2.
Thus, for example, in the following video you can see a chapter of the second season of the program Shooting Stars so you can get an idea of what it is like:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2HP4adMAeo
Other BBC channels
In addition, the BBC has two high definition channels: BBC OneHD y BBC Two HD. However, both are broadcast simultaneously with respect to their respective SD channels. In addition, there is also BBC Dawn since 2008, a television channel broadcast exclusively in Scottish Gaelic, broadcasting the most popular Scottish genres.
In the following video, you can see a fragment of the news that is broadcast on the BBC Alba channel:
In addition, the BBC operates other digital stations such as BBC Three, BBC Four, BBC News and BBC Parliament. It also has two other children's channels called CBBC and CBeebies. The first is aimed at children between 6 and 12 years old and broadcasts between 7:00 and 19:00. For its part, CBeebies is aimed at children under 6 years of age.
Other television channels
Apart from the BBC, in the United Kingdom there are other channels that have been gaining much popularity in recent years, such as ITV, which today has practically the same audience rating as BBC One and BBC Two.
But this is not the only channel available, since thanks to digital TV, the range of possibilities has become almost infinite. Here is a list of the main ones.
ITV (Independent Television)
Founded in 1955, the ITV channel is broadcast in all the nations that make up the United Kingdom, including the Isle of Man.
ITV1 It is the most popular service in the whole country, but it also has STV for Scotland and UTV for Northern Ireland, where the same programs are broadcast despite having different brands according to areas.
It also has channels ITV2, ITV 3, ITV4, CITV, ITV Encore, JML Direct Tv and ITVBe.
In the video below you can see the trailer in English for the fall / winter 2015 season of the popular series Coronation Street:
The programming of the ITV1 channel is essentially commercial. The telenovela stands out above all Coronation Street and fiction series like Primeval, Emmerdale o The Bill, Among others.
Popular entertainment and music programs such as The X Factor, dancing on ice, Britain's Got Talent o You've been framed They have a large following as well.
Sky (British Sky Broadcasting)
Sky it is actually a subscription television service available in both the UK and Ireland. Among the channels with the highest ratings, it has Sky News and Sky 1.
In all, Sky UK Limited has become the most popular pay TV provider in the country in recent years. In the following list, the different channels available according to their genre are mentioned:
- Entertainment: Sky1 and its HD version, Sky2, pick-tv, Sky Atlantic, Sky living, Sky Living Loves y Sky Living It.
- Movies: sky box office, Sky Movie Pack, Sky Movies Box Office.
- News: Sky News.
- Culture: Sky Arts 1, 2 and their corresponding HD versions.
- Sports: Sky Sports 1, 2, 3, 4 (and its HD versions), Sky Sports News.
In the following video you can see Sky News Live (Sky's news channel) live at any time and from anywhere in the world:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y60wDzZt8yg
Other commercial channels
In addition to those already mentioned, which would make up the main panorama, in the United Kingdom you can see other channels such as FiveUSA, Five Star, Universal Channel UK, GOLD, Yesterday, Home, Alibi, Quest, Good Food, Discovery Channel, Discovery Real Time, Syfy, british eurosport, ESPN UK, Turner Classic Movies (TCM), Film4, Comedy Central, ChallengeTV, Disney XD, Disney Channel, Boomerang, Nickelodeon junior, cartoon network, Discovery Home & Health, Discovery Science, Discovery History, And a long etcetera.
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