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'''Category: BBC''' — the [https://www.BBC.co.uk BBC], officially the '''British Broadcasting Corporation''' from the {{tag|United Kingdom}} (UK), is the [[:Category:Earth|worlds']] oldest and largest public {{tag|broadcasting}} service, and arguably the greatest and the best!  Often called the 'Beeb' (emanating from the spoken {{tag|acronym}} 'Bee Bee Cee'), an informally known within the UK broadcast industry as the '{{tag|Corporation}}', the BBC is governed by a {{tag|British}} Royal Charter.  It is {{tag|non-commercial}} (meaning it does <u>not</u> carry [[:Category:Advertising|advertising]] on any of its UK broadcast platforms and services, and therefore receives no revenue from advertising), and its broadcasting services in the UK ({{tag|television}} and {{tag|radio}}) are funded by way of a {{Wp|Television licensing in the United Kingdom|Television Licence}} - aka the 'TV Licence' (whereby every UK household (or business) which has ''any'' equipment capable of receiving a television signal {so not just a conventional television set, but now also any kind of cable or satellite tuner/decoder, [[:Category:Computers|computer]], [[:Category:Games console|gaming console]], or [[:Category:Smartphone|smartphone]] which is capable of connecting to the [[:Category:Internet|internet]]} must possess a valid TV Licence).

The BBC also operates and maintains one of the world's largest {{tag|internet}} sites; found at <tt>www.BBC.co.uk</tt> in the United Kingdom, and mirrored at <tt>www.BBC.com</tt> globally.

The BBC ''does'' have commercial subsidiary operations; such as 'BBC World' (which sells its own films and television programmes such as ''Top Gear'', ''[[:Category:Doctor Who|Doctor Who]]'', ''Strictly Come Dancing'', ''The Weakest Link'', etc, to other countries for profit), and also publishes a variety of consumer magazines for sale.

This [[Special:Categories|category]] here on WikiIndex contains wiki sites or other articles which have a connection in one way or another to the BBC.