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  BBC NEWS | Health | Calculate your body mass index
Doctors use the body mass index (BMI) as a simple way of assessing whether a patient needs to lose weight.
The calculation is based on comparing a person's weight with their body height.
For instance, it is possible for a healthy, muscular athlete with very low body fat to be classified obese using the BMI formula.
news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/health/5297790.stm   (229 words)

  
  List of BBC related topics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
BBC Northern Symphony Orchestra: The predecessor ensemble of the BBC Philharmonic.
BBC Opera Orchestra: The predecessor ensemble of the BBC Concert Orchestra.
BBC Symphony Orchestra: The BBC Symphony Orchestra is the principal orchestra of the British Broadcasting Corporation and one of the leading orchestras in Britain.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/BBC_(index)   (3937 words)

  
 BBC - WikiCG   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
The BBC is an autonomous corporation run by a board of governors appointed by the incumbent government for a term of four years (formerly five years).
BBC's radio stations during the coat of arms included Radio 1, Radio 2, Radio 3 and Radio 4, and BBC Radio Five Live and the digital radio stations such as 1Xtra, BBC 6 Music, BBC 7, Five Live Sports Extra, and the BBC Asian Network.
BBC unveils the logo from its ident launch in 1958 until the current logo in 1997, with the BBC block squares.
www.wikicg.com /wiki/index.php/BBC   (649 words)

  
 British Broadcasting Company - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
See BBC for a history of the British Broadcasting Corporation from 1927 and BBC (index) or the BBC category for other articles related to this subject.
The General Electric Company, Ltd. (GEC) in Britain, which was represented on the board of the BBC, had ties to General Electric International, which was a subsidiary of the General Electric Company in the USA.
April 3: BBC Deputy Managing Director Rear-Admiral Charles Carpendale became President of the First General Assembly of the International Broadcasting Union at Geneva, Switzerland.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/British_Broadcasting_Company   (2223 words)

  
 BBC plans for radio 247   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
The BBC is finalising plans for a 24-hour radio music station to replace the condemned pirate "pop" ships.
The BBC plan would not mean extending the present limit of 37½ hours a week "needle time" - the time allocated to gramophone records, agreed with the Performing Right Society.
The BBC's plan, which is likely to be included in the White Paper on broadcasting later this year, follows a visit by Mr.
www.transdiffusion.org /rmc/bbc/radio247.asp   (323 words)

  
 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/BBC
BBC 2 was broadcast in colour from 1 July, 1967, and was joined by BBC 1 and ITV on 15 November, 1969.
In 2007/2008 BBC News is expected to relocate from the News Centre at BBC Television Centre to the refurbished Broadcasting House in what is being described as "one of the world's largest live broadcast centres".
BBC Worldwide Limited is the wholly owned commercial subsidiary of the BBC responsible for the commercial exploitation of BBC programmes and other properties, including a number of television stations throughout the world.
www.reference.com /browse/wiki/BBC   (3648 words)

  
 BBC Motion Gallery - Home Page
The BBC holds one of the largest and most impressive collections of sports footage anywhere.
For over 50 years the BBC has been at the forefront of sports television, and today has one of the greatest collections of sports footage in the world.
BBC footage is ideal for storytelling, with thousands of unexpected shots, unusual subjects and rare moments.
www.bbcmotiongallery.com /Customer/index.aspx   (528 words)

  
 bbc radio drama   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
There were 9 productions with BBC radio drama up until 1973 when her stage work began to be...
BBC radio 3 : speech and drama BBC radio 3 : speech and drama This site, entitled Speech and Drama, is a subsite of the BBC Radio 3 Web site.
BBC Radio also broadcasts an enormous amount of original radio drama, and has given...
www.money-smash.com /articles/13/bbc-radio-drama.html   (940 words)

  
 Indiantelevision.com > Breaking News > BBC launches global financial index   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
The BBC Global 30 is calculated using the share price of the largest listed company by stock market value from the ten most important industrial sectors in each of the three regions, including ‘oil and gas’, ‘basic materials’, ‘industrials’, ‘consumer goods’, ‘health goods’, ‘consumer services’, ‘telecommunications’, ‘utilities’, ‘financials’ and ‘technology’.
According to the BBC’s Business and Economics editor Daniel Dodd, as quoted in the release, "What we wanted was our own BBC branded index to use as an editorial tool to help us track the health of the world economy.
The BBC Global 30 constituents will be revised each year by FTSE International, based on strict guidelines.
www.indiantelevision.com /headlines/y2k4/sep/sep341.htm   (299 words)

  
 Indiantelevision.com > News Room Headlines > BBC launches global financial index   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
MUMBAI: The BBC has launched its own international stock market index, made up of the top companies from 10 business sectors in the USA, Europe and Asia-Pacific.
The BBC Global 30 is calculated using the share price of the largest listed company by stock market value from the ten most important industrial sectors in each of the three regions, including 'oil and gas', 'basic materials', 'industrials', 'consumer goods', 'health goods', 'consumer services', 'telecommunications', 'utilities', 'financials' and 'technology', states an official release.
The BBC's business and economics editor Daniel Dodd has been quoted in the release as saying, "What we wanted was our own BBC branded index to use as an editorial tool to help us track the health of the world economy.
www.indiantelevision.com /headlines/y2k4/oct/oct18.htm   (257 words)

  
 Classic TV & Movie Hits - BBC
BBC 2 was broadcast in colour from 1967, and was joined by BBC 1 in 1969.
In addition the BBC operates a number of radio and television world services in cooperation with funding from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, one of which includes a recently set up TV news station in the Middle East in the Arabic language.
BBC Director General Mark Thompson, who unveiled the plans for the company's "MyBBCPlayer" at the Edinburgh Internati...
www.classictvhits.com /network.php?id=53   (874 words)

  
 Index The BBC (abolish the bbc tv licence)
The cost of the TV License from 1922 till now this is just the monetary cost, not the human cost to those that have been imprisoned through none payment.
January 2002 Gerald Kaufman MP called for the BBC Licence fee to be abolished.
December 2004 Sir Gerald Kaufman, the Labour MP who chairs the committee, added: “With reluctance we have come down clearly in favour of continuation of the Licence fee.
www.itsmummy.com /indexbbc.html   (350 words)

  
 RE: [backstage] Finally, that bloody BBC Weather feed - here it is...
You'll all be pleased to hear that (probably unintentionally) the BBC has launched complete RSS and JSON support for it's BBC Weather service (data provided by the Met Office).
The RSS feed, despite clearly being on the public server, is not currently referenced from anywhere on the BBC (as far as I can see) and has been derived from existing logic.
Further more, from my knowledge of the BBC and specifically the BBC Weather relationship with the Met Office, the licence details contained within the BBC Weather RSS feeds is probably incorrect (it's just part of the standard RSS template).
www.mail-archive.com /backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/msg01878.html   (613 words)

  
 Is the BBC serious about programme standards?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
New Alliance has been monitoring the BBC handling of Britain's relationship with the EU since 1999; although some of the 'policy' publications quoted are not the latest, they serve as good examples as to the expected standards.
There is no valid reason why the BBC should not be working to them - if it is not, we should have the right to know why.
The BBC claim to be 'committed to listening and responding to your views'.
www.users.dircon.co.uk /~iits/newalliance/bbcstd.htm   (327 words)

  
 :: Reboot bbc.co.uk | reboot_gallery | BBC START page ::
The BBC is a serious news organisation; does extensive business coverage and Business should be on the front page.
The BBC has a lot of subject based publications “ I surprised more isn ‘t made of them especially as they relate to the topics on the website.
BBC Cumbria just won a webby for their video work, could more be done to showcase the local BBC sites work on the national site?
open.bbc.co.uk /reboot/gallery/2006/05/bbc_start_page.html   (2045 words)

  
 The ABCs of the BBC: A Case Study and Checklist - Boxes and Arrows: The design behind the design
The special filtered pages are intended to aid browsing for A-Z users coming to the index from virtually anywhere on the site, and also to be the first destination from broadcast-specific areas of the site (most notably, from www.bbc.co.uk/tv).
There were two rounds of user testing in the BBC project, one with participants recruited by an external agency, and the second with BBC staff who weren’t involved in the project and weren’t in the wider user experience design team.
Many indexes fudge the challenge of entries that begin with numerals by shoving them, for example, in under ”A” or “Z.” Chances are, the entries will only ever be found by serendipitous browsing or lucky guessing.
www.boxesandarrows.com /view/the_abcs_of_the_bbc_a_case_study_and_checklist   (2927 words)

  
 BBC track record on EU reporting
The BBC should live up to all the commitments and promises made, as it says "Our promises are not made lightly".
The BBC Charter requires impartial and accurate reporting, but was disregarded In March 2002, in a 'BBC' feature claiming "big support" for regional assemblies in England.
Research agency TRBI were commissioned by the BBC to look into factors surrounding the low turnout in the UK 2001 General Election and public interest in politics.
www.iits.dircon.co.uk /newalliance/bbctrack.htm   (522 words)

  
 BBC - SCIFIPEDIA
The British Broadcasting Corporation, or BBC, is a state-owned organization which develops and controls much of the radio and TV that is broadcast in the British Isles.
Programs on the BBC are run commercial-free; the BBC is funded by television licences (a.k.a.
This is one of the reasons that BBC programs have most often been run in the USA on PBS stations, since commercial networks would have to insert commercial breaks into programs that aren't designed for them.
scifipedia.scifi.com /index.php/BBC   (243 words)

  
 bbc gardening - Online Tips bbc gardening   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
BBC Gardening Interactive The BBC's comprehensive reference for gardeners with plant details, gardening projects, illustrated plant features, expert advice, tips and a place to meet other gardeners...
BBC Gardening: a (potted) history Programmes that featured flowers and plants were produced almost...
BBC Gardening - How to be a Gardener Part Two A complete online guide gardening for beginners, bringing life to your learning with eight modules covering everything you need to know to give you a...
www.itsgardening.com /bbcgardening   (1848 words)

  
 News and jobs for journalists :: Public could help BBC to index archive
The BBC could ask listeners to write programme information about its radio news bulletins in order to make its vast archives more accessible to future generations of licence payers.
Influential blogger Tom Coates, who oversaw development at the BBC, showed a demonstration in which a user marks individual headlines within a Radio 4 bulletin then adds descriptive text that can be used to make segments searchable.
Searchable data is already added by journalists to radio and television clips that are posted to the BBC News site and an earlier prototype let readers tag stories on the site.
www.journalism.co.uk /news/story1583.shtml   (691 words)

  
 BBC Spoken Word: Index
Welcome to the official website of BBC Radio Collection.
BBC Radio Collection is part of BBC Audiobooks Ltd and currently has more than 800 titles published across five main genres: Fiction and Drama, Non Fiction, Comedy, Children's and Poetry.
BBC Radio Collection – providing sound ideas for every occasion.
www.bbcworldwide.com /spokenword   (217 words)

  
 UK Radio
BBC World Service Caversham Diaries BBC "look-aheads" -- a peak at what one of the world's most respected news services thinks is worth covering in the days ahead
BBC World Service - Live Click here if you have Real Audio to listen to the world service live
BBC World Today Click here to listen to the show live
www.journalismnet.com /radio/uk.htm   (260 words)

  
 New Alliance: BBC Section Index   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
The licence payer funds the BBC to the extent of £2 Billion a year*.
Licence payers therefore have high expectations as to the BBC's contribution to the nation.
(*NB The BBC World Service is funded by the Foreign Office but 'adheres to the same values and standards' as licence-funded services in the UK)
www.users.dircon.co.uk /~iits/newalliance/bbc.htm   (101 words)

  
 The BBC lives! -- File Archive
Most of the collection of DFS disk images that was provided here at "The BBC Lives!" has been removed because most images contained games still copyrighted (and sold) by Superior Software.
Another rumored location of these files is in a ZIP file found at "The Chuckie Egg Appreciation Society", to which you'll find a link in the WWW section of the Internet resources page.
David Moore is composing a list of commercially released BBC games, and this can be found on the documentation page.
bbc.nvg.org /files.php3   (1953 words)

  
 bbc - OneLook Dictionary Search
BBC : The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
BBC : Turkish Acronyms to live by [home, info]
Phrases that include bbc: bbc english, bbc 'rhythm & movement' idents, bbc 1, bbc 2, bbc 3, more...
www.onelook.com /?w=bbc&ls=a   (203 words)

  
 The Sun Online - News: 'No viewers' for BBC   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
SOME of the BBC's digital channels have so few viewers that last year 55 days' worth of programmes were watched by NO ONE, new figures have shown.
The BBC's digital channels are struggling to attract viewers, even though more than two million people can now watch them through Freeview.
News International Limited, 1 Virginia St, London E98 1XY, is the holding company for the News International group and is registered in England No 81701.
www.thesun.co.uk /article/0,,2-2004020489,00.html   (298 words)

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