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The British Broadcasting Corporation is the dominant television and radio broadcast entity in the United Kingdom. Currently, the BBC operates multiple TV networks and radio stations, many of which have broadcasted Doctor Who-related content over the years.

Its main television channel is currently known as BBC One. It was on BBC One that Doctor Who aired from 1963 to 1989 and again since 2005. As of 2011, it is also the home network of Torchwood.

Other BBC channels

• BBC Two
• BBC Three - initial home network of Torchwood and Doctor Who Confidential.
• BBC Four - Has shown a number of repeats, including The Hand of Fear
• CBBC - Children's network; broadcaster of The Sarah Jane Adventures.
• BBC Radio
• BBC Radio 7 - current broadcaster of an ongoing series of Eighth Doctor audio adventures.

The BBC has also branched out into other media, including BBC Audio which has issued a number of soundtrack recordings from the series, as well as original audio dramas, BBC Video, which has issued episodes and documentaries to the home video market, and BBC Books, which has published original Doctor Who fiction since 1996.

BBC Worldwide is a branch of the BBC that oversees syndication of programmes such as Doctor Who, as well as overseas production ventures.

The BBC is also connected to several North American cable networks that air Who-franchise programming, including BBC America (United States) and BBC Kids (Canada), although these broadcasters are not considered to be directly part of the parent BBC.

In the DWU

Naturally, since the British Broadcasting Corporation started Doctor Who, the series itself and its spin-offs have given it a fair share of homage. The DWU in fact predicted the existence a BBC3 thirty-one years before such a channel actually came into existence. According to Who Killed Kennedy, it was allegedly launched in 1969.

On 14 July 1930, the BBC broadcast a television adaptation of The Man With the Flower in His Mouth by Luigi Pirandello. This was the first television drama to be produced in the United Kingdom. Provided that the broadcast was successful, the BBC considered producing an adaptation of Black Orchid by George Cranleigh. (PROSE: The Wheel of Ice)

On 2 June 1953, the BBC broadcast live coverage of the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II from Alexandra Palace. (TV: The Idiot's Lantern)

The science fiction television series Nightshade, starring Edmund Trevithick as the title character, ran on the BBC from 1953 to 1958. It was rebroadcast on BBC2 in December 1968. (PROSE: Nightshade)

A BBC News bulletin on 15 October 1957 reports on the recent launch of Sputnik, Earth's first artificial satellite, by the Soviet Union. (AUDIO: Unregenerate!)

Ace watched BBC for a short time while at Mike Smith's house in 1963. (TV: Remembrance of the Daleks)

In 1966, BBC newsreader Kenneth Kendall reported on the War Machine crisis and announced when the first machine had been destroyed. (TV: The War Machines)

Circa the 1970s, BBC3 broadcast live, on the public affairs programme The Passing Parade, the opening of the Devil's Hump. (TV: The Dæmons)

In 1976, UNIT, members of the band Plasticine, the Seventh Doctor, Bernice Summerfield and Ace broke into the BBC in an attempt to stop a Vardan invasion. (PROSE: No Future)

In 1996, the Blue Peter garden was destroyed by a member (or members) of Faction Paradox, the effect of which was a far more intense psychological reaction than any direct assault on the people's psyche. (PROSE: Interference - Book Two)

While in 2001, Fitz Kreiner noted to himself that even the BBC logo had changed since the 1960s into a blocky square style. (PROSE: Escape Velocity)

In 2005, the BBC correspondents Francis Currie and Scott Christie were among the newscasters reporting on alien attacks and civil unrest in London. (AUDIO: The Coup, AUDIO: The Longest Night)

In 2006, the BBC did a news report on the alien crash in the Thames. (TV: Aliens of London) On Christmas of that year, the BBC broadcast Prime Minister Harriet Jones's address to Great Britain rather than the traditional greeting by the monarch (in this case, Elizabeth II). (TV: The Christmas Invasion)

The Cybus Industries website, which tied into TV: Rise of the Cybermen and The Age of Steel featured an interview with the creator of the Cybermen of Pete's World, John Lumic. When asked the "best" and "worst" things about the BBC, Lumic simply responded that he abolished the BBC after Cybusnet became the sole global information provider. This wiki does not consider real world websites as valid sources.

In 2007, the BBC broadcast a news story to warn people of the Cyber-threat. (TV: Army of Ghosts) The Cybermen took control of all the TV channels, including the BBC, to broadcast their message of world domination around the globe. (TV: Doomsday)

In 2007, a BBC News bulletin reported that the United States and United Kingdom governments were anticipating final victory in the Iraq War in the near future. (AUDIO: Unregenerate!)

In 2008, the Saxon Master broadcast his message about contact with alien life through the BBC. (TV: The Sound of Drums) The channel also reported on two highly destructive cataclysms. (TV: Revenge of the Slitheen, The Lost Boy)

In 2009, the BBC covered multiple emergencies such as the ATMOS disaster, (TV: The Poison Sky) the Earth's abduction, (TV: The Stolen Earth) the Zodiac brainwashing, (TV: Secrets of the Stars) and the 456 crisis. (TV: Children of Earth)

By the 2060s, the BBC had turned into the British Film and Television Corporation; following the Myloki war, its London headquarters were used as a covert base for SILHOET. (PROSE: The Indestructible Man)

Parallel universes

Beep the Meep travelled to what's essentially the real world, where the Doctor's universe existed only as the Doctor Who series. He then 12 October 1979 and took control of the BBC Television Centre. The Eighth Doctor and his companion Izzy Sinclair defeated Beep with the help of Tom Baker — the man who played the Fourth Doctor — who infuriated him with his endless rambling. The Doctor learned the truth when he discovered the first issue of Doctor Who Weekly. (COMIC: TV Action!)