British Broadcasting Corporation or BBC is an England based television programme production company. BBC has been a world leader in programme production and has pioneered communications in radio, television and online technologies.
BBC is one of the most famous news channels in the world. It has presence in almost 50 countries. ‘Entertain Educate Inform Innovate Enrich’ is the motto of BBC. It defined the rules of television reporting and is the pioneer of lot of firsts.
BBC came to India along with the first wave of satellite channels in the early 90s. BBC is a 24 -hour news based television channel. But it also has other quality programmes to be proud of, like its programmes on travel, food, business, science, etc. I spent most of my time on television watching BBC. It is educative at the same time entertaining. Mastermind India was an excellent quiz show that I used to watch regularly.
The quality of the programmes in BBC is excellent. Compared to the kind of programmes aired on Indian channels, which are either serials (I think they are called ‘sops’) or film-based, the programmes on BBC are worth a watch for an Indian television audience. I am sorry that even though the English have left Indian shores long back, we still have to depend on them for quality television viewing.
Another feature of the channel is that there are hardly any commercial breaks in between programmes, which makes for good concentrated viewing.
BBC’s USP is supposed to be that it reports news by the hour. It reported Babri Masjid demolition and many other Indian events even before Indian television channels could. Maybe now with internet and other online news updates by mobile companies, etc BBC’s niche of instant news reporting would have become affected.
The only grievance an Indian can have against the channel is that is continues to show India’s national boundary without parts of Kashmir occupied by Pakistan and China, which though may be practically the truth but are land belonging to India.
But it still remains one of my favourite television channels.