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What is the difference between BBC News and BBC World News? ›

BBC News (known as BBC World News until 2023) is an international English-language pay television channel owned by BBC Global News Ltd. — a subsidiary of BBC Studios—and operated by the BBC News division of the BBC.

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West Yorkshire is a treasure trove of attractions, blending historical sites with modern wonders. Visit the majestic ruins of Kirkstall Abbey in Leeds or ride the vintage trains on the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway.

BBC World News is our commercially funded international news and information television channel, broadcasting in English 24 hours a day in many countries across the world. BBC World News is available in more than 200 countries and territories worldwide, around 300 million households and 1.8 million hotel rooms.

The BBC has announced its intention to bring BBC News in the UK and World News together into a single TV channel called BBC News. 2 This is expected to happen in April 2023 and will broadcast around the world – from London during UK daytime hours, then Singapore and Washington DC.

It also makes and broadcasts entertainment for the UK, and many of its products are re-sold elsewhere, such as in the United States. CNN does not commission dramas and documentaries like the BBC does.

Tyke or Yorkie is now a colloquialism used to identify the Yorkshire dialect, as well as the term some Yorkshiremen affectionately use to describe themselves, especially in the West Riding.

PBS America operates much like BBC Studios, a profit-making enterprise managed separately from the main non-profit, publicly financed arm, that will ideally generate money for its owner. It is provided by pay-television operators as part of their channel packages and carries advertising.

The United States emerges as the second highest audience for the BBC outside of the UK—second only to India, a nation with more than one billion people.

The oldest and largest local and global broadcaster by stature and by number of employees, the BBC employs over 21,000 staff in total, of whom approximately 17,900 are in public-sector broadcasting.

What is the difference between the BBC and the BBC World Service? ›

The BBC World Service is an international broadcaster owned and operated by the BBC. It is the world's largest external broadcaster in terms of reception area, language selection and audience reach.

Unlike the BBC's domestic channels in the United Kingdom, BBC America does not receive funding from the British licence fee (which is the principal funding for the BBC's channels within the United Kingdom), as the BBC cannot fund any of its channels that are available outside the United Kingdom.