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  Encyclopedia: Broadcasting House
Broadcasting House is the headquarters of the BBC in London, England.
It broadcasts throughout the UK on FM radio between 88 and 91 MHz from its studios in Broadcasting House.
Broadcasting House is currently undergoing renovation, scheduled for completion in 2008.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Broadcasting-House   (710 words)

  
 Broadcasting House (radio programme) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Broadcasting House is a current affairs programme on BBC Radio 4.
During the 2005 UK general election Broadcasting House ran a regular feature to help shape a BH political party, a satire of the careful craft parties make of slogans.
Broadcasting House began with Eddie Mair as presenter.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Broadcasting_House_(radio_programme)   (369 words)

  
 BBC - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
BBC 2 was broadcast in colour from July 1, 1967, and was joined by BBC 1 and ITV on November 15, 1969.
Broadcasting House is the headquarters of the BBC.
Broadcasting House is currently undergoing renovation, scheduled for completion in 2005.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/BBC   (3738 words)

  
 Bush House - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Bush House is a building between Aldwych and The Strand in London.
Built from Portland stone, Bush House was in 1929 declared the "most expensive building in the world", having cost around £2,000,000 ($10,000,000).
After a landmine damaged Broadcasting House on December 8, 1940, the BBC's European Service moved into the south-east wing of the building; the rest of the Overseas Service followed in 1958.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bush_House   (291 words)

  
 Texas Public Radio BBC World Service   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Broadcasting from its home at Bush House in London, BBC World Service is considered the world's most successful and widely trusted international radio network.
At the outbreak of war, the BBC was broadcasting in 7 languages other than English; by the end of hostilities, the BBC had 45 separate language services and a General Overseas Service (formerly the Empire Service) broadcasting in English for 24 hours a day.
In March 1930, during the Bush House excavations in the Strand for the Eastern wing, a marble head was uncovered from a pile of rubble.
www.tpr.org /programs/bbc.html   (869 words)

  
 Broadcasting House - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Situated in Portland Place, it is normally home to Radio 2, 3, 4, 6 Music and BBC 7.
On the front of the building are statues of Prospero and Ariel (from Shakespeare's The Tempest) by Eric Gill.
This article related to broadcasting in the United Kingdom is a stub.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Broadcasting_House   (252 words)

  
 BBC World Service   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
After a landmine damaged the service's original home Broadcasting House on December 8 1940, the European Service moved to Bush House; the rest of the Overseas Service followed in 1958.
Since the 1990s the World Service has also increasingly used satellite broadcasting as a means to deliver its signals to its overseas transmitters and to home dish owners in several countries.
Its signature tune Lilliburlero is broadcast just before the top of most hours, preceded by the announcement "This is London" and followed by the Greenwich Time Signal (five short and one long pips) and the hourly news.
www.bidprobe.com /en/wikipedia/b/bb/bbc_world_service.html   (644 words)

  
 Archive: Reports: BBC Broadcasting House Commissions Programme
The Broadcasting House Public Art Programme takes its inspiration from the BBC's role and remit in the 21 st century, and, specifically, the unique situation of Broadcasting House as the BBC's international headquarters, the home of Radio and Music and, by 2008, World Service and radio and television News.
Global and local networks, broadcasting, communication, speech and sound are the starting points for artists' responses; their proposals encompass public space, light, sound, colour, language, data and information dissemination, video, film and photography, and interactive technologies.
Broadcasting House itself is the film's subject matter as a repository of events and narratives related to the production of sound broadcasting and the juxtaposition of rooms and objects found there.
www.publicartonline.org.uk /archive/reports/bbc_broadcasting_house.html   (2112 words)

  
 U.S. Congress and Television
House rules are similar to Senate rules regarding the conduct of televised hearings.
House rules originally required that television cameras focus only on House members as they spoke from lecturns or in the well of the House.
Shuman, Samuel I. Broadcasting and Telecasting of Judicial and Legislative Proceedings.
www.museum.tv /archives/etv/U/htmlU/uscongress/uscongress.htm   (986 words)

  
 Public Broadcasting Targeted By House
Expressing alarm, public broadcasters and their supporters in Congress interpreted the move as an escalation of a Republican-led campaign against a perceived liberal bias in their programming.
House members could restore funding as the appropriations bill moves along or, more likely, when the House and Senate meet to reconcile budget legislation later this year.
Broadcasters noted, for example, that the 25 percent cutback in next year's CPB budget was a rollback of money that Congress had promised in 2004.
www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/09/AR2005060902283.html   (660 words)

  
 Current.org | House committee OKs indie bill, 1988   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The House Energy and Commerce Committee yesterday approved a public broadcasting funding bill that would create a separate program service for independent producers and establish a board to evaluate public broadcasting's programming for minorities.
The House included the two provisions in the Public Telecommunications Act of 1988, which authorizes $1.26 billion in federal funding for public TV and radio for fiscal years 1991-93.
The House committee's action is a victory for independent producers, who launched a high profile lobbying effort last fall to convince Congress that they needed a separate independent producers' fund.
www.current.org /indies/indies812house.shtml   (1079 words)

  
 Radio Rewind - BBC Radio 1 - History - Egton House
Situated in Langham Street behind Broadcasting House in London's West End, Egton House was purchased by the BBC at the height of the second world war and was used as BBC HQ after the bombing of Broadcasting House in 1940.
Egton House was classed as an 'eyesore' and was demolished in January 2003.
Broadcasting House is to be re-vamped to house all BBC Radio offices by 2007 The building will include a new 'Egton Wing.'
www.radiorewind.co.uk /egton_house_page.htm   (249 words)

  
 London Underground History - Platform for BBC Broadcasting House?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
There is an area in part of Broadcasting House's labarynthian basement known as the Stronghold which is in fact an old World War two bunker, built in 1941.
BBC Broadcasting House is currently being extensively renovated and I was told that the Stronghold area was to be removed as part of this work.
When built in 1932, Broadcasting House was provided with its own water supply - an Artesian well, which bores 600 feet down to the soft chalk layer beneath the building.
underground-history.co.uk /bbcbh.html   (934 words)

  
 THE BROADCASTING AND AVAILABILITY OF THE DEBATES AND PROCEEDINGS OF PARLIAMENT IN BOTH OFFICIAL LANGUAGES   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
In his testimony, the Speaker of the House said he felt the House of Commons was meeting its obligations by providing the video signal and three audio signals, one in French, one in English and one in the language of the parliamentarian speaking (floor).
Milliken explained that, in his capacity as Chairman of the House Board of Internal Economy, he was not in favour of the House adopting coercive measures to force cable companies to broadcast the English and French versions of parliamentary debates.
Broadcast Distribution Regulations, the cable companies belonging to the CPAC consortium are required to include the CPAC channel in their basic service at no additional cost.
www.parl.gc.ca /InfoComDoc/37/1/LANG/Studies/Reports/LANGRP2-e/08-rap-e.htm   (2775 words)

  
 Funding for PBS hinging on war of ideology - The Boston Globe - Boston.com - Washington - News
The White House stressed that President Bush's budget called for keeping CPB funding level, and noted that Tomlinson -- who was appointed by Bill Clinton -- has the authority to run CPB as he sees fit.
Dingell said the Republican encroachment on public broadcasting's editorial independence is greater now than at any other time since its inception because the GOP controls the House and the Senate as well as the White House.
Though the House cuts were eventually restored, GOP leaders have quietly stressed fiscal responsibility since most agencies that get federal dollars will have to tighten their belts.
www.boston.com /news/nation/washington/articles/2005/07/11/funding_for_pbs_hinging_on_war_of_ideology   (1075 words)

  
 AVS Forum - House Panel Slashes Funding for Public Broadcasting
The House panel completely eliminated funding for the highly-successful Ready To Learn program, grants for the federally-mandated digital conversion of stations, and funding for the satellite interconnection system that distributes PBS and other programming to local public television stations.
Lawson noted that the House cuts went much deeper than those proposed by President Bush in the FY 2006 budget that the president submitted to Congress in February.
Lawson called on public broadcasting’s bi-partisan supporters in the Senate to restore funding that was cut in the House, as Senators have done in previous years.
www.avsforum.com /avs-vb/printthread.php?t=549477   (1188 words)

  
 NATIONAL DESK   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
That effort was initiated by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting’s own chairman, Kenneth Tomlinson.“Americans overwhelmingly see public broadcasting as an unbiased information source,’’ Rep. David Obey, a Democrat of Wisconsin, the ranking Democrat on the subcommittee, said in a statement.
Now they are trying to put their ideological stamp on public broadcasting.’’ But the Republican chairman of the House appropriations subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services and Education asserted that the panel was simply making choices among various worthy government programs, and that no political message was intended.
HOUSE PANEL VOTES TO TAKE BACK UNSPENT 9/11 AID A House panel voted yesterday to take back some $125 million in unspent September 11, 2001, aid to New York,a plan that has lawmakers from the state scrambling to hold on to those funds and $44 million more suddenly at risk.
daily.nysun.com /Repository/m2.asp?Issue=NYS/2005/06/10&ID=Ar00501&Mode=HTML   (711 words)

  
 Broadcasting House - The building is opened
But in many ways, Broadcasting House was more than just an impressive building - it was built to have distinctive artistic merit too.
Ariel (which, incidentally, is the name now given to the BBC's in-house staff newspaper) also features on the other two entrances on the east and west sides of the building.
The BBC moved from Savoy Hill to Broadcasting House officially on 14th May, 1932, and two months later, on 7th July, the King and Queen visited the building.
www.miketodd.net /other/bhhistory/bh_1932a.htm   (686 words)

  
 Guardian Unlimited | Arts features | Through the round window
Broadcasting House itself is being reconstructed and added to by architects MacCormac Jamieson Prichard, whose magnificent vaulted newsroom will be the largest of its kind in the world when completed in 2008.
Broadcasting House will then be open to the public, as far as security allows, so everyone can witness what have been its secret ministries.
Broadcasting House is, however, just the mighty tip of an even mightier architectural iceberg.
www.guardian.co.uk /arts/features/story/0,11710,1007083,00.html   (1209 words)

  
 BBC News | UK | BBC News goes 'home'
To many people, the very image of Broadcasting House - like a cross between a valve wireless and an ocean liner - is the symbol of broadcasting.
Work to build Broadcasting House, which started in 1928 and cost £650,000, was recorded in a style typical of the era, in the 1931 BBC Handbook.
As iconic as the image of Broadcasting House is to a UK audience, the name Bush House holds even more powerful associations for listeners to the BBC World Service.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/uk/998896.stm   (885 words)

  
 VPR and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting / About VPR   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
On July 14, 2005, the Senate Appropriations Committee approved funding for public broadcasting that is $111 million greater than that provide by the House of Representatives.
On June 16, 2005, the House Appropriations Committee that oversees the budget for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) approved a nearly $200 million reduction in CPB funding for 2006.
The CPB is distinct from both NPR and PBS: It is not a broadcaster, but a private corporation created by Congress in 1967 with two primary functions: to serve as a firewall between partisan politics and public broadcasting, and to help fund programming, stations and technology.
www.vpr.net /about_vpr/cpb.shtml   (1682 words)

  
 WTOP-TV - The One & Only Channel 9's History
Bamberger Broadcasting is owned by the R.H.Macy Company, and is sold in 1952 to General Tire and Rubber to become General Teleradio (later RKO General).
Broadcast House is constructed around the original small WOIC studios and transmission tower.
Broadcast House is named by John S. Hayes in honor of the BBC's British Broadcasting House where he served during World War II.
home.earthlink.net /~hdtv/History/WTOP/WTOP-TV1.html   (3807 words)

  
 Broadcasting House   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
It is impossible to restrain one's enthusiasm for the wonderful enterprise which has made this new Broadcasting House possible, the interior of which seems to radiate the spirit of venturesome and eternal youth.
The romance of broadcasting is the most fascinating of all modern studies, for there is so much - one might almost say its vital essence - which is still unrevealed.
But the practical side of broadcasting can be best appreciated by reflecting on the early years at Savoy Hill, with its small number of studios, contrasted with the new Broadcasting House, which contains twenty-two studios.
www.musicweb-international.com /brian/zbroadcastinghouse.htm   (408 words)

  
 KXCI, Community Radio in Tucson, Arizona   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
House approves additional $100 million in funding for Corporation for Public Broadcasting; cuts to children's programming await Senate action
WASHINGTON -- In a 284 to 140 vote today, the U.S. House of Representatives approved a bipartisan amendment restoring $100 million in funding to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
In the face of overwhelming public pressure, a bipartisan majority in the House of Representatives reversed course.
www.kxci.org /cpb.htm   (306 words)

  
 SUMMERLAND FACTORY, THORP HOUSE AND BROADCASTING HOUSE, ROUGE BOUILLON,
Saviour’s Realty Limited of Broadcasting House, Rouge Bouillon, St. Helier (shown marked C on Drawing No. 609/2) in the sum of £1,100,000 (one million one hundred thousand pounds) with each party being responsible for their own legal costs in respect of the transaction;
Following negotiations, the opportunity has arisen to purchase the adjoining office buildings of Thorp House (9,967 square feet/926 square metres) and Broadcasting House (6,641 square feet/617 square metres) from St. Saviour’s Realty Limited for the total sum of £2.2 million with each party being responsible for their own legal costs.
In addition to the Summerland occupation until October 1999 there are leases in existence at both Broadcasting House and Thorp House which would not provide the opportunity of vacant possession under normal circumstances until 2003 and 2005 respectively.
www.statesassembly.gov.je /documents/propositions/39234-41364.htm   (892 words)

  
 Broadcasting   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The Scandanavians benefited by the arrival of Radio Scotland whose broadcasts reached then from off the coast at Dunbar on 242 metres from the MV Comet on New Year's Eve 1965 before it sailed round the coast to broadcast off Troon.
In Britain, the attempt to broadcast anti-Chinese Government propaganda from the Goddess Of Democracy was met with widespread support from MP's and programmes from a ship broadcasting to the former Yugoslavia even received financial backing from the EC.
On 1 January 1991 the Broadcasting Act gained royal assent and the free voice of Radio Caroline was finally silenced.
www.sterlingtimes.co.uk /broadcasting.htm   (3899 words)

  
 House of Broadcasting Museum in Scottsdale, AZ : details   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
-- House of Broadcasting is made up of the Phoenix Chapter of American Women in Radio and Television and the Arizona Broadcasters Association.
HOBI is a 501C3 non-profit museum dedicated to preserving and celebrating the history, personalities and paraphernalia associated with Arizona's Broadcasting Industry.
PAGE OVERVIEW: -- Provides general information about House of Broadcasting Museum, which may include web site and contact information, as well as description and collections info for those planning to visit House of Broadcasting Museum..
www.museumstuff.com /rec/org_20020201_14506.html   (261 words)

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