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BBC Four is a BBC television channel available to digital television (Freeview, IPTV, satellite and cable) viewers in the UK. The part successor (with CBeebies) to BBC Knowledge, it launched on 2 March 2002. old Radio 4 logo BBC Radio 4 is a UK domestic radio station which broadcasts a wide variety of spoken-word programmes including news, drama, comedy, science and history. ...
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BBC Knowledge was an early BBC digital television channel, available by cable, satellite, or terrestrial digital broadcasting, providing a strong programme of documentary, cultural and educational television. ...
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Freesat is a BBC-owned trademark for free to air digital satellite television services targeting the UK. It is used as a tradename by two, differing systems, one of which is not purely free-to-air. ...
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Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line (ADSL) is a form of DSL, a data communications technology that enables faster data transmission over copper telephone lines than a conventional modem can provide. ...
Tiscali TV is a UK-based consumer Video on Demand service, operated by the European telephony company, Tiscali SpA. The service, originally known as Homechoice, was provided by Video Networks Limited (VNL), based in Shepherds Bush in West London, until it was purchased by Tiscali UK in August 2006...
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Satellite television is television delivered by way of communications satellites, as compared to conventional terrestrial television and cable television. ...
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CBeebies is a British television channel produced by the BBC and aimed at children six years and under. ...
BBC Knowledge was an early BBC digital television channel, available by cable, satellite, or terrestrial digital broadcasting, providing a strong programme of documentary, cultural and educational television. ...
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It shows a wide variety of programmes including drama, documentaries, music, international film, comedy and current affairs ... an alternative to programmes on the mainstream TV channels.[1]
BBC Four has an annual budget of £67m (£49.8m on content, £2m distribution, £15.2 infrastructure) which is only 4.7% of that of BBC One[2] (but 1.8% of the audience) and consequentially has a schedule dominated by repeats. For the BBC radio station, see BBC Radio 1. ...
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The first evening's BBC Four programmes were simulcast on BBC Two. BBC Four is notable for first showing Larry David's Seinfeld follow-up, Curb your Enthusiasm[3], Armando Iannucci's cutting political satire, The Thick of It and Flight of the Conchords. Simulcast is a contraction of simultaneous broadcast, and refers to programs or events broadcast across more than one medium at the same time. ...
For the BBC radio station, see BBC Radio 2. ...
Lawrence Gene David, (born July 2, 1947 in Brooklyn, New York) better known as Larry David, is an Emmy-winning actor, writer, comedian, producer and film director. ...
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Curb Your Enthusiasm is an American sitcom starring Seinfeld writer, co-creator, and executive producer Larry David as himself. ...
Armando Iannucci (born 1964, Glasgow, Scotland) is a Scottish comedian, satirist and radio producer. ...
Political satire is a subgenre of general satire that specializes in gaining entertainment from politics, politicians and public affairs. ...
The Thick of It is a British comedy television series, which satirises the inner workings of modern British government. ...
Flight of the Conchords is a television comedy series that follows the adventures of the Flight of the Conchords, a folk duo from New Zealand, as its members seek fame and success in New York City. ...
 BBC Four share of viewing 2002-2007 BARB figures The channel broadcasts a mixture of art and science documentaries, vintage drama (including many rare black-and-white programmes), and non-English language productions such as films from the Artificial Eye catalogue and the French thriller Spiral. BBC Four further supports foreign language films with its annual World Cinema Award which has been running since 2004. Image File history File links Size of this preview: 750 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (1000 × 800 pixel, file size: 18 KB, MIME type: image/png) BBC Four viewing share since launch I, the creator of this work, hereby release it into the public domain. ...
Image File history File links Size of this preview: 750 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (1000 × 800 pixel, file size: 18 KB, MIME type: image/png) BBC Four viewing share since launch I, the creator of this work, hereby release it into the public domain. ...
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A magnet levitating above a high-temperature superconductor demonstrates the Meissner effect. ...
Documentary film is a broad category of visual expression that is based on the attempt, in one fashion or another, to document reality. ...
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Black-and-white or black and white) can refer to a general term used in photography, film, and other media (see black-and-white). ...
The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ...
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Spiral is a French television police drama series in eight parts created by the TV production company Son et Lumière. ...
On weekdays at 19.00, the channel shows a 30-minute global news programme called World News Today, simulcast with and produced by BBC World News. It screens a number of original documentaries such as The Century of the Self and The Trial of Henry Kissinger. The channel is also home to many political travel shows such as Holidays in the Axis of Evil which features investigative journalism. BBC World News (previously BBC World) is the BBCs international news and current affairs television channel. ...
The Century of the Self is an acclaimed documentary by filmmaker Adam Curtis released in 2002. ...
The Trial of Henry Kissinger, published in 2002, is Christopher Hitchens brief examination of the alleged war crimes of Henry Kissinger, the National Security Advisor and later Secretary of State for President Nixon, and Secretary of State for President Ford. ...
Holidays in the Axis of Evil was a documentary series shown on BBC4 in the United Kingdom. ...
Drama has given the channel some of its most popular programmes, with The Alan Clark Diaries (2003) and Kenneth Williams: Fantabulosa! (2006) being among the highest rated, with over 800,000 viewers. The March 18, 2008, broadcast of The Curse of Steptoe brought the channel its highest audience figures, estimated as 1.41 million viewers, a 7% share of multichannel audiences between 9pm and 10.05pm, based on overnight returns. [4] The official audience figures for the broadcast, including time-shifting, were later published as 1,625,000. [5] Another notable production was a live re-make of the 1953 science-fiction serial The Quatermass Experiment, adapted from the original scripts into a single, two-hour version (though on the night it in fact underran considerably, lasting less than 1 hour 40 minutes), broadcast on the evening of Saturday 2 April 2005. Discounting BBC Four's previous live relays of theatrical Shakespeare productions, this was the first live made-for-television drama to be broadcast by the BBC for twenty years. Cathy Come Home, a 1966 entry into The Wednesday Play anthology series, voted the best drama and second highest programme overall in the British Film Institutes 2000 survey of the 100 Greatest British Television Programmes of the 20th century. ...
Alan Kenneth Mackenzie Clark (13 April 1928 - 5 September 1999) was a British Conservative politician, historian and diarist. ...
The Quatermass Experiment is a British television science-fiction serial, transmitted by BBC Television in the summer of 1953. ...
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According to BARB the comedy panel game QI has the highest ratings of any show on BBC Four. [6] The word barb can have many meanings: Look up barb in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...
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At the Edinburgh International Television Festival, BBC Four won the Non-Terrestrial Channel of the Year award in 2004 and 2006. Founded in 1976 and now in its 30th year the Festival is held annually over the August bank holiday weekend at the Edinburgh International Conference Centre. ...
On the Freeview digital terrestrial television platform, BBC Four is broadcast in a statistically multiplexed stream in Multiplex B that timeshares with the CBeebies channel; broadcasting from 7 pm to about 4 am every day. Digital Terrestrial Television (DTTV or DTT) is an implementation of digital technology to provide a greater number of channels and/or better quality of picture and sound using aerial broadcasts to a conventional antenna (or aerial) instead of a satellite dish or cable connection. ...
Statistical multiplexing is similar to time-division multiplexing (TDM), except that, rather than arbitrarily assigning a time slot to each signal, each signal is assigned a slot according to priority and need. ...
CBeebies is a British television channel produced by the BBC and aimed at children six years and under. ...
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Main article: History of BBC television idents The BBC's "cultural" channel BBC Four was launched on 2 March 2002 as a successor to BBC Knowledge. The initial series of idents were generated dynamically reflecting the frequencies of the continuity announcers' voice or of backing music and were designed by Lambie-Nairn. As a result, no two idents were ever the same. The history of BBC television idents starts in the early 1950s, when idents were first used by the BBC to differentiate each of their channels and create separate identites for them. ...
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BBC Knowledge was an early BBC digital television channel, available by cable, satellite, or terrestrial digital broadcasting, providing a strong programme of documentary, cultural and educational television. ...
In September 2005, the channel's new idents based on the theme of an "four" and optical illusions, for example a swimming pool where a person on an inflatable ring appears in the bottom left corner, though ripples don't enter the remaining quarters. Although the image appears as one at the start of the ident by the end it is clearly 4 separate images.
Controllers of BBC Four Roly Keating is the current controller of British television channel BBC Two as of 2004. ...
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References - ^ BBC - BBC Four - FAQ. Retrieved on 2007-08-19.
- ^ http://www.bbc.co.uk/annualreport/pdfs/financialstatements.pdf. Retrieved on 2007-08-19.
- ^ BBC NEWS - Have Your Say - Are BBC Digital channels poor value?. Retrieved on 2007-08-19.
- ^ BBC4 breaks ratings record, March 19, 2008, The Guardian
- ^ BARB multichannel top ten, BBC Four, week ending 23 March, 2008
- ^ Analysis of BARB audience figures, produced for QI by the BBC, QI website, accessed 28 March, 2008
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is the 231st day of the year (232nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
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BARB, the Broadcasters Audience Research Board, is the organisation that compiles television ratings in the UK. It was created to replace a previous system, where the BBC and ITV companies compiled their own ratings. ...
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BBC Knowledge is the name of a television channel set to be launched in the near future by BBC Worldwide, the commercial division of the BBC. BBC Worldwide announced the move in the summer of 2006 which will result in BBC Knowledge, replaced as a television channel in the United...
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The old BBC Prime logo used until 1997 BBC Prime is the BBCs general entertainment TV channel in Europe, Africa and the Middle East. ...
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| | | Defunct channels | BBC Knowledge · BBC Choice (in Wales) · BBC World Service Television · BBC TV Europe · BBC Japan · BBC Select BBC Knowledge was an early BBC digital television channel, available by cable, satellite, or terrestrial digital broadcasting, providing a strong programme of documentary, cultural and educational television. ...
BBC Choice was a TV station from the BBC which launched on September 23, 1998. ...
BBC Choice Wales was a Welsh television channel started as part of BBC Wales digital broadcasting experiments. ...
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