BBC (in-universe)


 * This article is about the Earth television network as featured in various Doctor Who franchise episodes. For the real-world network, see British Broadcasting Corporation.

The BBC (short for British Broadcasting Corporation) was an Earth television network.

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

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

Circa the 1970s, BBC3 broadcast live, on the public affairs programme The Passing Parade, the opening of the Devil's Hump. (DW: 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. (NA: 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. (EDA: Interference - Book Two)

While in 2001, Fitz Kreiner noted to himself that even the BBC logo had changed to a blocky square style (changed with regard to his time in the 1960s). (EDA: Escape Velocity)

In 2006, the BBC did a news report on the alien crash in the Thames. (DW: 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). (DW: The Christmas Invasion)

In 2007, the BBC broadcast a news story to warn people of the Cyber-threat. (DW: 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. (DW: Doomsday)

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

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

Alternate worlds
Beep the Meep travelled to an alternate world in the year 1979, and took control of the BBC Television Centre. His plan was undone with the help of actor Tom Baker, who strangely both physically resembled the Fourth Doctor and appeared to be playing him on TV. (DWM: TV Action!)

On Pete's World, the BBC had been discontinued after the rise of CybusNet; John Lumic boasted he'd "abolished" the network. (WEB: Cybus Industries) BBC