The full name of the BBC is the British Broadcasting Corporation, which was founded in 1922 and headquartered in London, England. It is the largest news broadcasting company in Britain and one of the largest news broadcasting companies in the world.

The BBC began to provide TV service on 1936, which is the first TV station in the world. From 65438 to 0967, the BBC broadcasted the Wimbledon Championship with color signals for the first time, thus opening the era of color TV. Today, BBC is not only a world-famous and well-known media, but also operates other businesses, including BBC Proms concerts, English teaching and symphony orchestras.

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Interesting social events of BBC:

BBC News mistakenly displayed the English word "Year of Horse" as the homonym of "Year of prostitute" on TV subtitles on Friday. People with eyes and interests took this scene of an oolong and uploaded it to social networking sites, and then it became a fire. Some netizens joked: "According to BBC subtitles, this year should be quite interesting."

The subtitles of BBC live programs are automatically generated by the computer speech recognition system, or immediately input by stenographers, which has made many mistakes before. In the report of the funeral of the Queen Mother of England in 2002, the Archbishop of Canterbury who attended the ceremony was shown as "Archbishop of Canterbury".

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