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  BBC News

  BBC News is the department of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs. The department is the world's largest broadcast news organisation and generates about 120 hours of radio and television output each day, as well as...
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  Granada Television

  Granada Television was the brand-name of the ITV contractor for North West England, ITV Granada as of 2002. Founded by Sidney Bernstein and based at Granada Studios since its inception, it is the only surviving out of the original four Independent Television Authority franchisees from 1954....
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  Public Broadcasting Service

  The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is a non-profit American public broadcasting television network with 354 member TV stations in the United States which hold collective ownership. Its headquarters is in Arlington, Virginia. PBS is the most prominent provider of television programs to U.S....
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  NBC

  The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) is an American commercial broadcasting television network and former radio network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's Rockefeller Center with additional major offices near Los Angeles and in Chicago. NBC is sometimes referred to as the ...
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  WNET

  WNET, channel 13 (also referred to as Thirteen) is a non-commercial educational public television station licensed to Newark, New Jersey. With its signal covering the New York metropolitan area, WNET is a primary station of the Public Broadcasting Service and a primary provider of PBS programming....
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  ITV

  ITV is the major commercial public service TV network in the United Kingdom. Launched in 1955 under the auspices of the Independent Television Authority (ITA) to provide competition to the BBC, it is also the oldest commercial network in the UK. Since the passing of the Broadcasting Act 1990, its...

• BBC America

  BBC America is an American television network, owned and operated by BBC Worldwide, and available on both cable and satellite. The channel launched on March 29, 1998, broadcasting comedy, drama and lifestyle programs from BBC Television and other British television broadcasters like ITV and Channel...

• Central Independent Television

  ITV Central, previously known as Central Independent Television PLC and commonly shortened to Central, is the Independent Television contractor for the Midlands, created following the restructuring of ATV and commencing broadcast on 1 January 1982. The station is owned and operated by ITV plc,...

• Yorkshire Television

  ITV Yorkshire, previously known as Yorkshire Television and sometimes unofficially abbreviated to YTV, is the British television service provided by ITV Broadcasting Limited for the Yorkshire franchise area on the ITV network. Until 1974, this was primarily the three ridings of Yorkshire and...