BBC News and BBC World to Open New Manhattan Bureau at Headquarters of Thirteen/WNET New York.NEW YORK New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of -- BBC BBC in full British Broadcasting Corp. Publicly financed broadcasting system in Britain. A private company at its founding in 1922, it was replaced by a public corporation under royal charter in 1927. News and BBC World
BBC World is the BBC's international news and current affairs television channel. It has the biggest audience of any BBC channel. , the BBC's international news and information channel, are pleased to announce the opening of a new bureau in Manhattan at the production studios of the Educational Broadcasting Corporation, home to Thirteen/WNET and WLIW New York. The new bureau brings under one roof the world's largest news broadcaster and two of the major producing stations for PBS PBS in full Public Broadcasting Service Private, nonprofit U.S. corporation of public television stations. PBS provides its member stations, which are supported by public funds and private contributions rather than by commercials, with educational, cultural, . This move will give the BBC a unique position amongst international broadcasters to cover news, business, arts and entertainment in the most vibrant city in the world. From June 2005, the BBC will start broadcasting across all its networks for radio and television from new facilities at Thirteen/WNET. BBC World's flagship financial programme World Business Report - broadcast several times each day to more than 200 countries and territories around the globe - will transmit business news segments from a state-of-the-art set, with a dramatic live backdrop of the Manhattan skyline. WLIW has been distributing live BBC World News to public television stations nationwide since 1998, with current carriage at 230 stations. In the New York metropolitan area New York–Northern New Jersey–Long Island is the most populous metropolitan area in the United States and the third most populous in the world, after Tokyo and Mexico City. , these can be seen on Thirteen/WNET weeknights at 1800, and on WLIW21 at 0600, 1900 and 2300 each weekday; 0600, 1900 and 2300 on Saturdays; and 0600, 1800 and 2300 on Sundays. In addition, the programme BBC World: This Week - a comprehensive round-up of the events of the past seven days - airs on Sundays on WLIW21 at 1730. The BBC and Thirteen/WNET have a long history of co-commissioning news and current affairs current affairs npl → (noticias fpl de) actualidad f current affairs current npl → (questions fpl d')actualité f programming. Thirteen/WNET, America's most-watched public television station, has a commitment to reporting the world and giving context to global issues through strong human stories and engaging television, including foreign affairs foreign affairs pl.n. Affairs concerning international relations and national interests in foreign countries. documentaries such as the documentary series Wide Angle. The BBC is trusted by its global audience to present balanced, accurate analysis of stories topping the international news agenda, with BBC World now reaching 258 million households in total. It is hoped this move will be the first step in a new era of creative collaboration between two of the most imaginative and innovative broadcasting organisations. The BBC's arrival at 450 West 33rd Street alongside the new headquarters for Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. and the offices of the Daily News will contribute to the emergence of a major new broadcasting hub in midtown Manhattan. Notes to Editors: BBC World, the BBC's commercially-funded international 24-hour news and information channel, is owned and operated by BBC World Ltd, a member of the BBC's commercial group of companies. BBC World is available in more than 200 countries and territories worldwide, and reaches 258 million households (115 million 24-hour homes) and more than one million hotel rooms. BBC World launched in its present format in 1995 and is funded by advertising and subscription. For further information on how to receive BBC World, download schedules or find out more about the channel, visit www.bbcworld.com. Thirteen/WNET New York is one of the key program providers for public television, bringing such acclaimed series as Nature, Great Performances, American Masters American Masters is a PBS television show which produces biographies on what it considers are the best artists, actors and writers of the United States. It is produced by WNET in New York City. The show debuted on PBS in 1983. , Charlie Rose, Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly, Wide Angle, Stage on Screen, Secrets of the Dead, and Cyberchase - as well as the work of Bill Moyers - to audiences nationwide. As the flagship public broadcaster in the New York, New Jersey and Connecticut metro area, Thirteen reaches millions of viewers each week, airing the best of American public television American Public Television (APT) is the largest of the television syndication distributors of programming for public television stations in the United States. It began in 1961 as the Eastern Educational Television Network along with its own local productions such as The Ethnic Heritage Specials, The Thirteen Walking Tours, New York Voices New York Voices is the Grammy Award winning vocal ensemble renowned for their excellence in jazz and the art of group singing. Like the greTat groups that have come before, such as Lambert, Hendricks and Ross, Singers Unlimited, Manhattan Transfer and Take 6, they have learned from the , and Reel New York. With educational and community outreach projects that extend the impact of its television productions, Thirteen takes television "out of the box." And as broadcast and digital media converge, Thirteen is blazing trails in the creation of Web sites, enhanced television, CD-ROMs, DVD-ROMs, educational software, and other cutting-edge media products. More information about Thirteen can be found at: www.thirteen.org. |
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