The BBC Website is the official website for the BBC's online services which home for the BBC's UK online service. It is a large network of websites including such high profile sites as BBC News and Sport, the on-demand video and radio services co-branded BBC iPlayer, the Children's televion service CBBC and the pre-school site CBeebies, and learning services such as Bitesize.
The BBC has had an online presence supporting its TV and radio programmes and web-only initiatives since 1994 but did not launch officially until December 1997, following government approval to fund it by TV licence fee revenue as a service in its own right.
The website has gone through several branding changes since it was launched. Originally named BBC Online, it was rebranded as BBCi (which itself was the brand name for interactive TV services) before being named bbc.co.uk. It was then renamed BBC Online again in 2008, although the service uses the branding "BBC".
Content[]
Main Sections:
Schedules for BBC TV:
Shedules for BBC Radio:
- {{#NewWindowLink: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/programmes/schedules/england#on-now%7CBBC Radio 1}}
- {{#NewWindowLink: http://www.bbc.co.uk/1xtra/programmes/schedules#on-now%7CBBC Radio 1 Extra}}
- {{#NewWindowLink: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/programmes/schedules#on-now%7CBBC Radio 2}}
- {{#NewWindowLink: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/programmes/schedules/this_week%7CBBC Radio Three}}
- {{#NewWindowLink: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/programmes/schedules/fm#on-now%7CBBC Radio Four}}
- {{#NewWindowLink: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4extra/programmes/schedules/this_week%7CBBC Radio 4 Extra}}
- {{#NewWindowLink: http://www.bbc.co.uk/5live/programmes/schedules#on-now%7CBBC Radio 5 Live}}
- {{#NewWindowLink: http://www.bbc.co.uk/5livesportsextra/programmes/schedules#on-now%7CBBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra}}
- {{#NewWindowLink: http://www.bbc.co.uk/6music/programmes/schedules#on-now%7CBBC Radio 6 Music}}
BBC Archive Websites
- {{#NewWindowLink: http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/index.shtml%7CBBC Archive}}
- {{#NewWindowLink: http://www.bbc.co.uk/informationandarchives%7CBBC Information and Archives}}
- {{#NewWindowLink: http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk%7CBBC Genome}}
BBC Resources
- {{#NewWindowLink: http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre%7CBBC Media Centre}}
- {{#NewWindowLink: http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts%7CBBC - Podcasts and Downloads}}
Website History[]
The BBC website has gone through several designs in its history
Through out its long history, BBC.co.uk has had several major resigns to its features and how it displays information. This is caused by internet access becoming more common and internet speeds increasing meaning that webpages could become more complex. The Internet Archive, a website that archives popular websites to its servers, has record several versions of the BBC site through the years.
- Oct 1997 Archive
- May 1998
- March 2000
- Nov 2001 (BBCi era)
- Nov 2002
- March 2006