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The British Broadcasting Corporation, known as the BBC, is the world's largest broadcasting organisation, founded in 1922 as the British Broadcasting Company. Originally a radio broadcaster, the corporation began television broadcasts in the 1930s and now operates ten UK television channels including the oldest and most watched, BBC One. The BBC also operates 58 radio stations, including the most popular station in the UK, BBC Radio 2, and has an online presence through bbc.co.uk. Internationally, the BBC name is used as a brand for several channels operated by commercial arm BBC Worldwide, including the BBC World Service and BBC World News. Through BBC News, the corporation is the largest broadcasting news gatherer in the world, and has developed a good reputation for news gathering and reporting through the years.
Affectionate names for the BBC include auntie, the beeb and together, Auntie Beeb.
The Power of Nightmares is a BBC documentary film series, written and produced by Adam Curtis. The series consists of three one-hour films, consisting mostly of a montage of archive footage with Curtis's narration, which were first broadcast in the United Kingdom in late 2004 and have been subsequently aired in multiple countries and shown in several film festivals, including the 2005 Cannes Film Festival. The films compare the rise of the American Neo-Conservative movement and the radical Islamist movement, making comparisons on their origins and noting strong similarities between the two. More controversially, it argues that the threat of radical Islamism as a massive, sinister organised force of destruction, specifically in the form of al-Qaeda, is in fact a myth perpetrated by politicians in many countries—and particularly American Neo-Conservatives—in an attempt to unite and inspire their people following the failure of earlier, more utopian ideologies. The Power of Nightmares has been praised by film critics in both Britain and the United States. Its message and content have also been the subject of various critiques and criticisms from conservatives and progressives.
BBC journalist Nick Robinson (right, now Political Editor) interviewing then-MP Michael Portillo close to the Palace of Westminster for BBC News.
Kate Silverton is a news presenter for the BBC, currently fronting the BBC News at One.
She was born to Terry and Patricia Silverton in 1970 and has an elder sister, Claire. She attended West Hatch High School in Essex, where she was a champion swimmer and where she first competed in the triathlon. She spent a year studying Arabic and Middle Eastern politics before switching and has a BSc in Psychology from the University of Durham.
Silverton then worked in finance before training with the BBC and then reporting and presenting at Tyne Tees Television.
Silverton appeared on The Wright Stuff, The Heaven and Earth Show and Weekend Breakfast on Radio Five Live, before joining BBC News 24 and BBC Breakfast in 2004.
In 2005, she drew media attention when her News 24 co-anchor Philip Hayton, a BBC employee for 37 years, resigned his position citing incompatibility with Silverton. The Daily Mirror quoted an 'insider' as saying that Silverton is "pushy beyond belief. Behind her big superficial smile she can be a really aggressive, manipulative monster who always gets what she wants."
Several figures spoke up for Silverton including fellow News 24 presenter Jon Sopel who said "She's warm and friendly. With Kate, what you see is what you get - she's bright, lively, talented and vivacious. I like and trust her. Yes, she's ambitious... but aren't we all?"
Rod Liddle, another of Silverton's former co-presenters said: "Kate is intelligent, attractive and has strong opinions. She is far cleverer than Hayton. There are plenty of very stupid women at the BBC but she isn’t one of them".
In December 2007, Kate was promoted to a more prominent position within BBC News as the presenter of BBC One's new 8pm bulletin, a 90 second round up of the news.
Ashes to Ashes is the sequel to the popular 2006 series Life on Mars, currently being broadcast on BBC One. It is set in 1981, and stars Philip Glenister of Life on Mars as DCI Gene Hunt and Keeley Hawes as DI Alex Drake, who was shot in 2008, and found herself back in time.
Critical reception to the first episode of the series was mixed, with positive reviews from The Daily Telegraph and the New Statesman and negative reviews from The Times and The Observer. The Guardian reported that with 6.1 million viewers and a 25% audience share, the ratings for the second episode were down by almost one million on the first, though it still beat Trial & Retribution, which fell to a series low on ITV.
A "limited number" of phone-in competitions are returning to the BBC five months after they were suspended by the corporation because of fakery incidents.
The corporation has announced some competitions will start returning in a phased manner from January 2008, beginning with 'Goal Of The Month' on Match Of The Day and 'Pop Master' on the Ken Bruce show on Radio 2.
The BBC has tightened up the rules on competitions after an audit revealed "serious breaches of editorial standards" on certain programmes. This includes a cap of 15p on the cost of premium-rate calls, excluding only charity programmes such as Children in Need. This does not allow programmes such as Strictly Come Dancing to charge extra even if this money would go to charity, and the corporation is investigating other ways of raising money for charity.
The new rules say competitions must have "very senior level prior approval" and be strictly supervised and planned.
A new code of conduct is also in place while thousands of production staff are taking a Safeguarding Trust training course.
Director General Mark Thompson said: "Trust in our integrity, our determination to deal fairly and honestly with our audiences, is the most precious thing the BBC possesses."
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