British television British television 100 Greatest British Television Programmes was a list compiled in 2000 by the British Film Institute (BFI) chosen by a poll of industry professionals, to determine what were the greatest British television programmes of any genre ever to have been screened. ...more on Wikipedia about "100 Greatest British Television Programmes"
Adolf Arthur Englander ( July 15, 1915 – January 29 2004) was a British television cinematographer, one of the most respected in the field of his generation, and the first film cameraman to work seriously in the field of television in the UK, which for much of its early period almost exclusively employed electronic cameras. ...more on Wikipedia about "A. A. Englander"
Alexandra Palace was built on a hill in Muswell Hill in North London in 1873 as a public entertainment centre. It is now a conference centre operated by a charitable trust. It was nicknamed "The People's Palace" or "Ally Pally", and in 1936 became the headquarters of world's first regular public "high definition" television service, operated by the BBC. The Alexandra Palace Transmitter is located on the site and still broadcasts television and radio signals. ...more on Wikipedia about "Alexandra Palace"
When it was decided to introduce colour television, it was initially intended to add the American system NTSC to the British system A for a system that would have been known as NTSC-A. However the government instead decided to standardise on the European 625 line PAL system. Rather than broadcast on the existing VHF channels under system A, a new system was adopted known as System I. As such, the UK standard is PAL-I. ...more on Wikipedia about "Analogue television in the United Kingdom"
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is the national public service broadcaster of the United Kingdom (see British television). It produces programmes and information services, broadcasting on television, radio, and the Internet. It is the largest broadcasting corporation in the world. ...more on Wikipedia about "BBC"
The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA), is a British organization that hosts annual awards shows for film, television, children's film and television, and interactive media, both in London and Los Angeles. ...more on Wikipedia about "British Academy of Film and Television Arts"
The British Academy Television Awards, also known as the BAFTAs or, to differentiate them from the BAFTA Film Awards, the BAFTA Television Awards, are the most prestigious awards given in the British television industry, analogous to the Emmy Awards in the United States. Presented by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, they have been awarded annually since 1954. ...more on Wikipedia about "British Academy Television Awards"
The British Actors' Equity Association (now called Equity) is the British actors' trade union. It was formed in 1930 by a group of West End performers. The members of the union have the greatest range of fees of any union in Britain. ...more on Wikipedia about "British Actors' Equity Association"
British television broadcasting has a range of different broadcasters, broadcasting multiple channels over a variety of distribution media. ...more on Wikipedia about "British television"
Budgie is a small blue helicopter with a big yellow cap ( See Picture ). He lives and works at Harefield Airfield, and is best friends with Pippa. He can be cheeky and troublesome, but he works hard, pleasing Lionel. He loves helping friends, but hates getting dirty, as he would be sent to the 'heliwash', of which he also hates. ...more on Wikipedia about "Budgie the Helicopter"
The Crystal Palace Transmitter is a telecommunications tower in the Crystal Palace area of South London ( ). Today it is the second-tallest structure in London. It is best-known as the main television transmitter for the London area. ...more on Wikipedia about "Crystal Palace Transmitter"
Digital terrestrial television in the United Kingdom is made up of over fifty primarily free-to-air television channels (including all five analogue channels) and over twenty radio channels - primarily from the Freeview and Top Up TV services. It is intended that digital terrestrial television will completely replace analogue television in the UK by 2012. ...more on Wikipedia about "Digital terrestrial television in the United Kingdom"
: The correct title of this article is Five. A brief description of Five's branding policy can be found at their website. ** ...more on Wikipedia about "Five (TV)"
Flextech is a British television company and is entirely owned by the British cable company Telewest and acts as its television programme production arm. Flextech owns a number of British channels, available on Digital Terrestrial ( Freeview), Satellite ( BSkyB) and Cable platforms. ...more on Wikipedia about "Flextech"
Freesat is a BBC-owned trademark for free to air digital satellite television services targetting the UK. It is used as a tradename by two, differing systems, one of which is not purely free-to-air. Both of these systems draw or will draw their signals from the SES Astra/ Eutelsat owned Astra 2 and Eurobird satellites located at 28.2 degrees east of south. ...more on Wikipedia about "Freesat"
Freesat from Sky is a British non subscription based satellite service from BSkyB which gives viewers access to 150 channels. While many of the channels available on the platform can be accessed with standard free-to-air satellite decoders available from providers other that BSkyB, the Freesat from Sky allows access to three additional channels: Channel 4, Five and Sky Three; which are encrypted with the VideoGuard system used by Sky Digital. These channels are, however, available unencyptyed on the digital terrestrial television Freeview service. ...more on Wikipedia about "Freesat from Sky"
Freeview is a British free-to-air digital television service broadcast from terrestrial transmitters using the DVB-T standard. Launched on October 30 2002 at 6am, it took over the DTT licence to broadcast on four multiplexes, three of them from the defunct ITV Digital (originally called ONdigital). ...more on Wikipedia about "Freeview"
The BBC is forbidden under its charter to directly undertake any commercial operations on-air within the United Kingdom, however no such restriction applies to operations in other countries. Therefore the BBC exploits its massive television archive by operating a number of commercial television channels outside the UK through its BBC Worldwide subsidiary. ...more on Wikipedia about "International BBC television channels"
Kiss TV is a television channel that broadcasts Rhythm and blues, rap and dance music videos on Satellite, Free-to-air and Cable television in the United Kingdom. It is part of the EMAP group of digital television channels which include Smash Hits TV, The Box and others. ...more on Wikipedia about "KISS TV"
Light entertainment is a term used to describe a broad range of, usually televisual, performances. ...more on Wikipedia about "Light entertainment"
Lime Grove Studios was a film studio complex built by the Gaumont Film Company in 1915 situated in a street named Lime Grove, near Hammersmith, west London and described by Gaumont as "the finest studio in Great Britain and the first building ever put up in this country solely for the production of films". ...more on Wikipedia about "Lime Grove Studios" If you like you could tell us your opinion about shortopedia
* Sky Movies 1 through Sky Movies 9 (these channels supersede Sky Movies Premier 1 through 5 and Sky Movies Max/Moviemax 1 through 4, but not necessarily in that order) ...more on Wikipedia about "List of British television channels"
The National Television Awards are a British television awards ceremony, sponsored by the ITV network and initiated in 1995. Although not widely held to be as prestigious as the British Academy Television Awards, the premier UK television acolades, the National Television Awards are probably the most prominent ceremony for which the results are voted on by the general public. Because of the way the awards are decided, winners are not given the title "Best", but rather "Most Popular". The ceremony is held annually in October. ...more on Wikipedia about "National Television Awards"
NTL is a US listed company providing cable services. It is listed on NASDAQ, but does the majority of its business in the UK. ...more on Wikipedia about "NTL"
The Office of Communications, usually known as Ofcom, is the UK's communications regulator. ...more on Wikipedia about "Ofcom"
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