BBC One
Summary
BBC One is the primary television channel of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC). It was launched on 2 November 1936 as the BBC Television Service, and was the world's first regular public television service with a high level of image resolution. It was later renamed BBC tv until the launch of sister channel BBC2 in 1964, whereupon it was known as BBC1 until adopting its current name in 1997. The channel has an annual budget of £1,200 million. Along with the BBC's other domestic television stations, it is funded entirely by the licence fee, and therefore shows uninterrupted programming with no commercial advertising. It is currently the most watched television channel in the United Kingdom, ahead of its traditional rival for ratings leadership, ITV. The channel was named Channel of the Year at the 2007 Broadcast Awards. The Channel Controller for BBC One is Jay Hunt. Baird Television made Britain's first television broadcast, on 30 September 1929 from its studio in Long Acre, London via the BBC's London transmitter, using the electromechanical system pioneered by John Logie Baird.
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BBC strike - live coverage
Radio 4's Today and BBC1's Breakfast off air as staff stage a 24-hour stoppage over proposed compulsory redundancies. By Dugald Baird and Josh Halliday.
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BBC1 Christmas TV 2012 promo – video
BBC1's promo for its festive schedule stars Rob Brydon, Sarah Alexander and Strictly Come Dancing's Craig Revel Horwood.
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BBC no longer needs to broadcast a minimum of new factual programmes
Trust abolishes quotas for BBC1 and BBC2 after review of corporation's output• Read the full BBC review of service licences.
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BBC1's Hunted laid to rest
Melissa George spy drama, which has faced plummeting audiences, will not be recommissioned for second seriesRead the series blog for Hunted.
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Strictly Come Dancing: Johnny Ball rolls back on the beer | Media Monkey
Johnny Ball, the oldest contestant to take part in BBC1's Strictly Come Dancing, also became the first to leave the new series on Sunday after he lost the dance-off to TV presenter Richard Arnold. Ball suffered more than his share of bad luck after his professional dance partner had to sit out the first live show with a fractured ankle, then he was asked to change the first quarter of the routine at short notice.
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BBC1's Watchdog presenter takes the piss | Media Monkey
It turned out that confronting a dodgy tradesman was a wee bit more of a problem than TV presenter Matt Allwright expected. The in-your-face presenter of BBC1's Watchdog is used to getting unsuspecting tradesmen he confronts slamming doors in his face. However, the Daily Mirror reports, he got a real surprise when the dodgy owner of an aerial installation firm poured a glass of urine over him.
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Paralympics closing ceremony averages 5.9m viewers
Spectacular conclusion to London 2012 gave Channel 4 a bigger share of the audience than either BBC1 or ITV1 on Sunday.
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Olympics helps BBC1 to biggest ever ratings lead over ITV1
Channel has 21. 9% audience share for year to date, a record 7. 2 points ahead of ITV1, thanks to Games and diamond jubilee.
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'Superhuman Saturday' peaks at 3.2m viewers
Superhuman Saturday in the London 2012 Paralympic Games brought a peak audience of 3. 2 million viewers to Channel 4 on Saturday night, behind BBC One's 'Doctor Who' and ITV1's 'Red or Black?'.
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BBC's Olympics coverage secured more than a third of all viewers
BBC1's audience was up by 40%, while BBC3's share rose to 4. 8% during the Games to overtake Channel 4 and Channel 5.
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