10 Facts about BBC
10 Facts about BBC: 1. The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster. It is headquartered at Broadcasting House in London, and is the world's oldest national broadcasting organisation and the largest broadcaster in the world by number of employees, with over 20,950 staff in total, of whom 16,672 are in public sector broadcasting; including part-time, flexible as well as fixed contract staff, the total number is 35,402. 2. BBC staff openly smoked marijuana at the corporation’s headquarters during the 1960s and 70s and Play School presenters even went on-air stoned. 3. Britons have to pay $230 for a “television license” every year as a tax to support the BBC 4. British nuclear submarines have orders to launch nuclear missiles if they cannot tune into BBC Radio 4’s ‘Today’ program for a number of consecutive days. 5. Around a quarter of BBC revenues come from its commercial arm BBC Worldwide Ltd which sells BBC programmes an...