BBC Parliament
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BBC Parliament is a British television channel from the BBC. It broadcasts live and recorded coverage of the British House of Commons and House of Lords, Select Committees, the Scottish Parliament and the Welsh Assembly, and occasionally from the General Synod of the Church of England. It also rebroadcasts some material (mostly discussion shows) from the equivalent US channel, C-SPAN. Its nightly political programme is known as 'The Record'.
Before being taken over by the BBC, the channel was run by Flextech and it was then known as The Parliamentary Channel, available only on cable. It relaunched as its current state on 23 September 1998.
It broadcasts on digital cable and satellite, and on a quarter sized screen (shared with BBC News 24 multiscreens) on digital terrestrial (Freeview). It used to broadcast as audio-only on digital terrestrial due to lack of capacity. It used to have wide availability on analogue cable networks, but has gradually declined.
It is unique amongst the BBC channels in being entirely produced by an independent company, Millbank Studios, based in Millbank. Its 2004 relaunch has introduced an identity more in line with the BBC's corporate image, the channel now featuring music and graphics produced by BBC News.
Since 2002, the channel has frequently shown (almost) complete recordings of BBC general election coverage from a given year, from the 1955 election, the first British election programme to be telerecorded, to the 2005 election. Some have been broadcast on the anniversary of their original transmissions.
- United Kingdom general election, 1979 (7 September 2002)
- United Kingdom general election, 1997 (8 September 2002)
- United Kingdom general election, 1970 (26 September 2003)
- United Kingdom general election, February 1974 (3 October 2003)
- (the United Kingdom general election, 1983 was scheduled to be shown on 10 October 2003, but was not)
- United Kingdom general election, 1964 (4 January 2004)
- United Kingdom general election, 1979 (3 May 2004, 25 years to the day)
- United Kingdom general election, October 1974 (10 October 2004, 30 years to the day)
- United Kingdom general election, 2005 (7 May 2005)
- United Kingdom general election, 1997 (13 May 2005)
- United Kingdom general election, 1955 (26 May 2005, 50 years to the day. Only three hours of the programme are known to exist)
- United Kingdom general election, 1970 (18 July 2005, unadvertised, shown due to the death of Edward Heath a day earlier)
- United Kingdom general election, 1987 (5 September 2005)
- United Kingdom general election, 1966 (31 March 2006, 40 years to the day. One hour 'highlights' programme)
- United Kingdom general election, 1966 (8 April 2006, full coverage)
See also
- ABC NewsRadio (Australian parliamentary channel)
- C-SPAN (US)
- CPAC (Canadian)
- The Knesset Channel (Israel) [link]
External links
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UK analogue and digital channels BBC One | BBC Two BBC Two variants: BBC Two Northern Ireland |
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UK digital-only channels General Entertainment: BBC Three | BBC Four News and current affairs: BBC News 24 | BBC Parliament Children's television: CBBC Channel | CBeebies BBC Two Nations: BBC 2W | BBC Two NI Interactive Television: BBCi High Definition: BBC HD |
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Joint Ventures Animal Planet | People+Arts | UKTV (UK and Ireland) | UK.TV (Australia and New Zealand) |
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Defunct channels BBC Knowledge | BBC Choice | BBC World Service Television | BBC TV Europe | BBC Japan |
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