BNET Industries

British Broadcasting Corp.

is in the Media Industry

  • Private
  • UK
Dow Jones Description

TV, Radio & Internet Broadcasting Services

Number of Employees 27,148
Contact Information

Broadcasting House Portland Pl

London W1A 1AA

www.bbc.co.uk

(44) 2087438000

NAICS Code Television Broadcasting: 515120

Recent Events

  • BBC to Launch All-U.K. Radio Station Streamer Next Year

    11/19/09 - Product Announcement - View Story

  • BBC, Commercial Radio Unveil Web Radioplayer

    11/19/09 - Product Announcement - View Story

  • BBC Launches Star Search for Wizard of Oz's Dorothy

    11/18/09 - Product Announcement - View Story

  • DTV Media Planning Company, Leap Media, Names Tim Hanlon, Barry S. Fischer to Advisory Board

    11/17/09 - Mgmt. Change Entering - Other - View Story

  • NEWS BBC and Nintendo Reveal New Wi...

    11/17/09 - Product Announcement - View Story

  • Broadcast Rebels Ahoy!

    11/14/09 - Product Announcement - View Story

  • Report: Queen Wants Adam Lambert to Join Their Group

    11/11/09 - Mgmt. Change Entering - Other - View Story

  • News Corporation plans to sue BBC for copyright infringement?

    11/10/09 - Lawsuit Filed - View Story

  • BBC celebrating �sweet' win with Rightful Udder release

    11/07/09 - Mgmt. Change Leaving - General Manager - View Story

  • BBC Launches iPlayer-Like Broadband Video Service Providing Coverage of Political Institutions

    11/03/09 - Product Announcement - View Story

  • BBC and Arqiva announce agreement to enable roll-out of terrestrial HD network

    10/16/09 - Joint Venture / Alliance - View Story

  • Dorling Kindersley Signs MasterChef Brand

    10/09/09 - Joint Venture / Alliance - View Story

  • BBC Unveils Revamped Red-Button Interactive TV Service for Children's Channel, CBeebies

    10/08/09 - Product Announcement - View Story

  • Alesha Dixon's strictly dancing till 2am

    10/08/09 - Mgmt. Change Leaving - Other - View Story

  • Will BBC Launch Paid VOD Globally?

    10/07/09 - Product Announcement - View Story

News & Analysis

british broadcasting corp. and radio - All News and Analysis

  • Sacking call over Ross radio 'joke'

    - 2008-10-28

    PRESSURE was mounting today for the BBC to take further action over offensive calls made by Jonathan Ross and Russell Brand to veteran actor Andrew Sachs. The corporation has already apologised to Fawlty Towers star Mr Sachs after the DJ pair left answer phone messages saying Brand had slept...

    Tags: brand, Branding, British Broadcasting Corp., MARKETING, phone, radio

  • Choir in radio sing-off final

    - 2008-10-22

    A CHOIR based in Durham has reached the finals of the BBC Radio 3 Choir of the Year competition after seeing off competition from hundreds of choirs across the UK. The 29-strong Northern Spirit Singers, composed of past and present Durham University students and music teachers, will head to...

    Tags: British Broadcasting Corp., MARKETING, radio, U.K.

  • World Tonight: Booze banter

    - 2008-09-05

    RADIO presenters, including BBC Radio 1's Chris Moyles, widely encourage drinking, according to a government-funded study out today. Research into 1,200 hours of radio output uncovered 703 extracts containing references to alcohol. Of these, 179 involved comments made by presenters and another 45 were comments initiated by co-presenters, studio guests...

    Tags: alcohol, British Broadcasting Corp., MARKETING, radio

  • World Tonight: Booze banter

    - 2008-09-05

    RADIO presenters, including BBC Radio 1's Chris Moyles, widely encourage drinking, according to a government-funded study out today. Research into 1,200 hours of radio output uncovered 703 extracts containing references to alcohol. Of these, 179 involved comments made by presenters and another 45 were comments initiated by co-presenters, studio guests...

    Tags: alcohol, British Broadcasting Corp., MARKETING, radio

  • Fr Ted chief dies in crash

    - 2008-08-31

    THE man who brought Fr Ted to the small screen has died in a road accident, it was announced yesterday. Former BBC head of comedy Geoffrey Perkins, 55, was killed at around 9.30am on Friday morning when he was hit by a flatbed van in Marylebone High...

    Tags: British Broadcasting Corp., MARKETING, radio

  • MAIL IN PRINT . . . AND ONLINE

    - 2008-07-27

    Speeding is illegal, on and off-camera THE coy reluctance of Britain's motoring organisations to more forcefully denounce all speeding as dangerous and anti-social should probably have been included in Joanna Blythman's excellent report, "The selfish pursuit of speed" (Opinion & Debate, July 20). Speed cameras, particularly...

    Tags: British Broadcasting Corp., Government, MARKETING, radio, Scotland, Speeding

  • Vent Your Spleen

    - 2008-07-25

    REGARDING cyclists, in response to RL of Whitley Bay, RL's statement that cyclists are not allowed on the pavement in any circumstances is not strictly correct as many pavements nowadays are also designated cycle ways, which is confirmed by the appropriate signs. The Tyne Bridge, High Level and Byker...

    Tags: British Broadcasting Corp., Government, MARKETING, radio

  • Studios link with BBC in talent and jobs bid

    - 2008-07-16

    Byline: By JOANNE DOUGLAS News Reporter THE Beaumont Street Studios are joining forces with the BBC. The Huddersfield-based recording and radio studios are linking with the BBC in a scheme that will open up the way into employment in the media. It is also hoped the partnership...

    Tags: British Broadcasting Corp., MARKETING, radio, talent

  • Call for BBC to slim down

    - 2008-07-04

    SIR Antony Jay, the co-writer of TV comedy Yes, Minister, has called for the BBC to be radically slimmed down. He said it was time for the corporation's digital channels, which include youth-focused BBC3 and highbrow operation BBC4, "to make their excuses and leave". The annual licence fee,...

    Tags: British Broadcasting Corp., MARKETING, radio, Sir, TVs

  • RADIO REVIEW BY BARRY DIDCOCK

    - 2008-06-15

    WHAT kind of wind was it that picked up a Rodgers and Hammerstein show tune on a New York stage in 1945 and blew it across the Atlantic to Liverpool, where it seeded and grew and eventually become woven into the very fabric of that place? In You'll Never Walk...

    Tags: British Broadcasting Corp., MARKETING, radio

Decision Makers

Name (plus bio) Position
John Smith COO
Mark Thompson Director General & Editor-in-Chief
Carolyn Fairbairn Director, Strategy & Distr
Dan Percival Director, Programme
Helen Boaden Director, News
Jana Bennett Director, TV
Jenny Abramsky Director, Radio & Music
Mark Byford General Director
Mark Damazer Deputy Director, News
Richard Sambrook Director, World Service & Global News
Tim Davie Director, Marketing
Lisa Owen-Jones Manager, Marketing, BBC Concert Orchestra
Alan Booth Controller, Marketing
Lorraine Heggessey Controller
Akhtar Khan
Alan Yentob
Andrea Callender
Andy Duncan
Anna Carragher Head, N Ireland
Anne Morrison Head, Contemporary Factuals
Barry Davies
Billy Kay
Blair Jenkins
Bruce Malcolm
Caroline Thomson
Colin MacKay
David Kermode
David King
Deepa Fernandes Producer
Dominic Heale
Fred MacAulay
Gavyn Davies OBE
Gerard McBurney
Giles Dilnot
Glenwyn Benson
Greg Dyke
Greg Palast
Helen Kellie Head, Marketing
Jeremy Peat
John Dickie
John Varney
John Willis
John Yorke
Julian Bellamy
Keith Beech
Kenneth MacDonald
Keri Davies
Margaret Mary
Mark A Wood Broadcast Engineer
Mark Coyle
Mark Gatty Saunt
Menna Richards
Mike Radford
Nicholas Kroll
Nomanul Haq
Pat Loughrey
Paul Reynolds
Pauline McLean
Peter Fincham
Prof Fabian Monds
Prof Merfyn Jones
Quinn Klinefelter
Ranjit Sondhi
Reevel Alderson
Richard Deverell
Richard Tait
Roger Mosey Head, TV News
Tony Butler

Board of Directors

Name (plus bio) Position
Michael Grade Chairman
Anthony Salz Vice Chairman

Organization Position Status
British Broadcasting Corporation COO Current
BBC Worldwide Limited Chief Executive Former

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British Broadcasting Corporation Director General & Editor-in-Chief Current

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British Broadcasting Corporation Director, Strategy & Distr Current
British Broadcasting Corporation Director, Strategy & Distr Former

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British Broadcasting Corporation Director, Programme Current
British Broadcasting Corporation Director, Programme Former

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British Broadcasting Corporation Director, News Current
British Broadcasting Corporation Director, News Former

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BBC Worldwide Limited Director, Television Current
British Broadcasting Corporation Director, TV Current
British Broadcasting Corporation Director, TV Former
TLC, LLC Former
The London School of Economics MSc(Dist) Former

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British Broadcasting Corporation Director, Radio & Music Current
British Film Institute Board of Directors Current
British Broadcasting Corporation Director, Radio & Music Former

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British Broadcasting Corporation General Director Current
Lincoln School Former

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British Broadcasting Corporation Deputy Director, News Current
British Broadcasting Corporation Deputy Director, News Former

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British Broadcasting Corporation Director, World Service & Global News Current
British Broadcasting Corporation Director, World Service & Global News Former

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British Broadcasting Corporation Director, Marketing Current
PepsiCo, Inc. Vice President, Marketing, Europe Former
British Broadcasting Corporation Director, Marketing Former
PepsiCo, Inc. UK Marketing Manager Former

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British Broadcasting Corporation Manager, Marketing, BBC Concert Orchestra Current

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British Broadcasting Corporation Controller, Marketing Current

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British Broadcasting Corporation Controller Current

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British Broadcasting Corporation Current
Fasttrack Former

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British Broadcasting Corporation Current

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British Broadcasting Corporation Current
Business.com, Inc. Former
Rfo, Inc. Former

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British Broadcasting Corporation Current

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British Broadcasting Corporation Head, N Ireland Current

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British Broadcasting Corporation Head, Contemporary Factuals Current

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British Broadcasting Corporation Current
BBC Radio Former

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British Broadcasting Corporation Current

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British Broadcasting Corporation Current

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British Broadcasting Corporation Current
Glasgow University Chartered Accountant Former

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British Broadcasting Corporation Current
The Pensions Regulator Board of Directors Current
BBC World Service Deputy Director Former
BBC World Service Board of Directors Former

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British Broadcasting Corporation Current
Independent Television Network Former

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British Broadcasting Corporation Current

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BBC Worldwide Limited Director, Finance Current
British Broadcasting Corporation Current
PricewaterhouseCoopers management consultant Former

Array

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The Iran Project Current

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British Broadcasting Corporation Current

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British Broadcasting Corporation Current

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British Broadcasting Corporation Current
The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. Chief UK Economist Former
HM Treasury member Former
University of Nottingham Honorary Degree of Doctors of Laws Former

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Philharmonic Symphony Society of New York Inc. Narrator and Creative Director Current
Chicago Symphony Orchestra Creative Director Current
Chicago Symphony Orchestra Programming Advisor Current
Royal Academy of Music Current
British Broadcasting Corporation Current

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British Broadcasting Corporation Current

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British Broadcasting Corporation Current

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British Broadcasting Corporation Current

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Global Public Media Award, Winning Reporter for Bbc Television's Newsnight and the Observer of London Current
British Broadcasting Corporation Current
Encyclocentral Current
University of São Paulo Lecturer Former
University of Chicago Mba Former

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British Broadcasting Corporation Head, Marketing Current

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British Broadcasting Corporation Current

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British Broadcasting Corporation Current

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British Broadcasting Corporation Current
Siemens Business Services Former

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British Broadcasting Corporation Current
WGBH Former

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British Broadcasting Corporation Current

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British Broadcasting Corporation Current

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British Broadcasting Corporation Current

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British Broadcasting Corporation Current

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British Broadcasting Corporation Current
Royal Air Force Former

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British Broadcasting Corporation Current

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Cellcast Technologies Chief Technology Officer, Cellcast Communications Current
British Broadcasting Corporation Broadcast Engineer Current

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British Broadcasting Corporation Current

Mark Gatty Saunt, Finance Director, has more than seven years of past experience licensing content from the publishing industry for electronic distribution. Mr. Gatty Saunt served as Licensing Director, News & Business Division for The Dialog Corporation, a world wide leading content aggregator. During a five year period he negotiated and licensed the electronic rights to hundreds of titles and maintained over 250 individual publisher relationships. Following that, Mr. Gatty Saunt served as a content licensing expert for online syndication company iSyndicate, Inc., now wholly owned by YellowBrix, Inc. During his time at iSyndicate, Mr. Gatty Saunt focused on big brand content acquisition from the likes of Knight Ridder, Tribune Company and the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC). More recently, Mr. Gatty Saunt positions himself as an independent content sales and syndication consultant. He assists various content providers, such as British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), UPBEAT Entertainment News Online, Al-Bawaba and RDSL, with new distribution channels for their content. This mainly involves marketing and licensing the content to third party aggregators, on/offline syndicates, wireless companies, corporate websites and intranets.

Organization Position Status
Nite Owl Productions, Ltd Finance Director Current
Nite Owl Productions, Ltd Producer, Business Development Current
British Broadcasting Corporation Current
Knight-Ridder, Inc. Former
Tribune Company Former

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British Broadcasting Corporation Current
University of Wales fellow Former
Current Affairs Former

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British Broadcasting Corporation Current
Harrods Ltd. tour guide Former

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British Broadcasting Corporation Current
Dcms Chief Operating Officer Former
Dcms Director of Creative Industries Former
Dcms Permanent Secretary Former
HM Treasury Head of Banking Policy Branch Former

Visiting Fellow at SDPI, is currently developing the humanities program at the Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS) as a senior faculty member of the Department of Social Sciences. He comes to LUMS from the University of Pennsylvania where he has been on the faculty of the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations and of South Asian Studies. Following his postdoctoral fellowship at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies of Harvard University where he largely carried out his doctoral work as a transfer student from University College London, Dr. Nomanul Haq's university teaching career began in earnest with his faculty appointment at Tufts University after which he became Assistant Professor at Brown University, and then at Rutgers University, finally ending up at the University of Pennsylvania. During the years 2004 and 2005, Dr. Nomanul Haq held the title of Scholar-in-Residence at the US-Pakistan federally funded American Institute of Pakistan Studies in Islamabad and served as its Project Director. He is the author of several books, largely published in Europe and the USA, as well as numerous articles and papers in some of the world's most prestigious journals, international newspapers, and edited volumes including Nature, New York Times, and Daedalus. While being General Editor of Oxford University Press book series Studies in Islamic Philosophy, he also sits on the editorial boards of many learned periodicals. Dr. Nomanul Haq has received a large number of honors and awards, including the Templeton Prize for Religion and Science and the Pakistan League of America Annual Award, and has delivered many prestigious lectures in places such as Berkeley's Graduate Theological Union, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, and the Humanities Center of the University of Pennsylvania. He is a member of UN-sponsored Forum on Religion and Ecology, and has also worked for several years as a journalist at the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) in London.

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Sdpi Current
British Broadcasting Corporation Current

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British Broadcasting Corporation Current

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British Broadcasting Corporation Current
News Corporation World Affairs Correspondent Former

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British Broadcasting Corporation Current
Glasgow University Honours Degree Former

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British Broadcasting Corporation Current

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British Broadcasting Corporation Current

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British Broadcasting Corporation Current

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Wdet-FM City Government Reporter Current
National Public Radio Inc. Current
British Broadcasting Corporation Current

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British Broadcasting Corporation Current
University of Birmingham Senior Lecturer Former
University of Birmingham BSc Honours in Physics Former

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British Broadcasting Corporation Current
University College Honours degree in History Former

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British Broadcasting Corporation Current

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British Broadcasting Corporation Current
Independent Television Network Editor-in-Chief Former
Cardiff University Director of the Centre Former
Cardiff University Professor of Journalism Former
Independent Television Network Editor Former

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British Broadcasting Corporation Head, TV News Current
PM Company LLC Former

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British Broadcasting Corporation Current

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British Broadcasting Corporation Chairman Current

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Friedman Fleischer & Lowe, LLC Executive Investor Current
British Broadcasting Corporation Vice Chairman Current
The Media Standards Trust Limited Executive Vice Chairman, Nm Rothschild Current
The Eden-Project Board of Directors Current
British Legal Awards Executive Vice Chairman, Nm Rothschild Current
Rothschild Inc. Executive Vice Chairman Current
Business for New Europe Executive Vice Chairman Current
Advisory Panel Board of Directors Current
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer Senior Partner Former
Freshfields Senior Partner Former
Freshfields Corporate Lawyer Former
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer Corporate Lawyer Former
Business.com, Inc. Trustee Former
Exeter University Doctor of Laws Former
The Media Standards Trust Limited Board of Directors Former

Executive News

  • Murdoch son: BBC threatens independent journalism

    San Jose Mercury News - 8/29/09 - View Story

  • Murdoch son: BBC threatens independent journalism

    Washington Post - 8/29/09 - View Story

  • Spied from the inside

    The Economist - 8/20/09 - View Story

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