Ownership of the BBC

The (BBC) is a British conglomerate public service broadcaster. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff. The BBC is a corporation, with its activities being overseen by the BBC Trust. They operate many TV stations most popular ones like: BBC 1, BBC 2, BBC 3, CBBC and Cbeebies. They also have an iPlayer to catch up with programmes from their’ channels on demand on TV and internet. Its a cross-media company because it has interests in TV,Radio and Internet.

BBC’s different channels have target audiences for every programme.  CBBC is for primary school children aged 6-12 years, Cbeebies is the BBC's brand for young children. Whereas BBC 1,2,3,4 and there channels are aimed and for mainly adults. They do this to get more viewers off all different ages and higher statistics and money for their company. They use diversification because they spread their investments by selling programmes they have made to other channels.


The BBC is internationally recognised as being a reliable, respected and unbiased on what is going on in the world and in the UK. And here in the UK every morning, Monday through Saturday, some 6,000,000 people tune in to BBC Radio 4′s widely listened to programme for what most believe to be objective news. They don't lead people to believe anything but just telling them what they know.