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  BBC News

  BBC News, formerly BBC News and Current Affairs, is the department within the British Broadcasting Corporation responsible for the corporation's news-gathering and production of news programmes on BBC television, radio and online. Producing 120 hours of output daily, it is the largest broadcasting...
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  Granada Television

  Granada Television is the United Kingdom ITV contractor for North West England and the Isle of Man. It is the only one of the original four ITA franchisees from 1954 that survived as a franchise holder into the twenty-first century. Broadcasting began on 3 May 1956, with the company originally...
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  Public Broadcasting Service

  The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is an American non-profit public broadcasting television service with 354 member TV stations in the United States which hold collective ownership. However, its operations are largely funded by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Its east coast headquarters...
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  BBC America

  BBC America is an American television network, owned and operated by BBC Worldwide Americas, and available on both cable and satellite. The channel launched on March 29, 1998, broadcasting comedy, drama and lifestyle programs from the BBC and other British television channels. In the early days,...
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  NBC

  The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) is an American television network and former radio network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's Rockefeller Center with additional major offices in Burbank, California. It is sometimes referred to as the Peacock Network due to its stylized...
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  WNET

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

  The British Broadcasting Corporation, usually referred to by its abbreviation as the "BBC", is the longest established and largest broadcaster in the world. The BBC is funded by an annual television licence fee, which is charged to all United Kingdom households using equipment capable of recording...
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  Central Independent Television

  Central Independent Television, more commonly known as Central (now ITV Central) was 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, under the licensee of ITV...
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  ITV

  ITV is a public service network of British commercial television broadcasters, set up under the Independent Television Authority (ITA) to provide competition to the BBC. ITV is the oldest commercial television network in the UK. Since 1990 and the Broadcasting Act 1990, its legal name has been...
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  Yorkshire Television

  Yorkshire Television (now known as ITV Yorkshire) is the ITV contractor for the Yorkshire franchise. Up until 1974, this was primarily the three Ridings of Yorkshire and associated areas served by the Emley Moor television transmitter. Following a re-organisation in 1974 the transmission area was...