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The British Broadcasting Company, Ltd. was founded in London on Wednesday October 18, 1922 and became a commercial radio broadcaster licensed by the British General Post Office. On Saturday January 1, 1927, the company was granted a Royal Charter and was renamed the British Broadcasting Corporation (commonly abbreviated to BBC). The BBC commenced experimental television broadcasts on August 22, 1932, using a 30-line system developed by John Logie Baird, the inventor of the television. It officially launched the world's first regular high-definition television service at 3pm on November 2, 1936, broadcasting from Alexandra Palace in London. The service initially used two systems - the Baird 240-line system, and the 405-line system developed by Marconi-EMI (named after Guglielmo Marconi, inventor of the radio). From February 1937, only the 405-line system was used. The service was suspended upon the outbreak of World War II on September 1, 1939, and resumed on June 7, 1946. Transmissions switched to a new site at Crystal Palace on March 28, 1956, and the service was renamed [[BBC One (UK)|BBC One]] on 20 April 1964 when [[BBC Two (UK)|BBC Two]] was launched.

==BBC Television Service==

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'''Logo:''' On a black background, we see "'''B.B.C.'''". Below it is "'''TELEVISION SERVICE'''". Under that is the name of the system being used, either the Baird or the Marconi-E.M.I.

'''Editor's Note:''' None.

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'''Editor's Note:''' None.

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'''Editor's Note:''' None.

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</gallery>'''Nicknames:''' "The Globe", "BBC TV Globe"

'''FX/SFX:''' The spinning globe, which is pretty much a model.

'''Editor's Note:''' None.

'''Nicknames:''' "The Globe II", "BBC TV Globe II"

'''Editor's Note:''' None.

===6th Logo (April 20, 1964-April 18, 1966)===

'''Editor's Note:''' None.

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*There is a prototype variant of this logo, in which there is one large white stripe instead of three in the later version; this was seen from April to June 1966.

*Christmas 1967: The globe is replaced with what seems to be a Christmas pudding. "Christmas BBC1" appears instead of the BBC1 blocks and snowflake tinsel appears on the top and the bottom.

'''FX/SFX:''' The rotating globe.

'''Editor's Note:''' None.

===8th Logo (July 7, 1968-November 15, 1969)===

*Christmas 1968: The ident is unknown, but in a trailer package a giant snowflake replaces the globe. The BBC1 logo is inverted.

*A slightly modified variant was introduced in Summer 1969.

'''FX/SFX:''' See above.

'''Editor's Note:''' None.

===9th Logo (November 15, 1969-December 28, 1974, 2006-2007)===

*The colour was added electronically down the line. This was in order to save expenses on re-branding in the long term.

*The ident itself was a box 12"x9" inches, corresponding to the standard 4:3 aspect ratio used at the time. The globe itself was a small hollow ball, internally lit with a 10V festoon bulb inserted on top. The background was achieved by placing a concave mirror behind the globe. The channel ID was a transparently lit from behind, making it easily interchangeable. Normally, mechanical presentation devices such as clocks were illuminated by the lamp on the NODD camera, but this would have caused the globe's reflection to distort on screen. So an internal light source was used. Both the globe light and the ident light could be adjusted by two separate controls at the back of the device. The land masses on the globe were clear areas, while black metallic paint represented the sea. Apparently the heat from the bulb frequently caused the paint to peel, so regular touch-ups were often required to ensure the continents maintained the "correct shapes" (the logo could look subtlety different from time to time, due to this). And those numerous small "islands" in the mirror globe were actually part of the design and not caused by flaking paint or dust, as you might assume.

'''Variants:'''

*Starting in 1972, the word "COLOUR" was in an oblique serif typeface, and the BBC boxes were rounded.

**Christmas 1971: Same as the last variant, but the text appears to be longer.

**Christmas 1972: There is no known footage of this ident (According to TV Ark, it's the same as the previous version), but the clock has been found. Ribbons surround the clock, with "CHRISTMAS COLOUR" on the bottom.

*For junctions in-between BBC school programs during 1969-1972, a different NODD globe was used. This variant lacked the "COLOUR" caption, and was shown in monochrome, since school programming was still filmed in monochrome until 1972.

*In 2006-2007, this logo was revived for the introduction of TV series ''Life on Mars'', which fittingly takes places in the 70s.

'''Accompanying clock ident:''' An analog clock face with the hours being represented by 2 bars, getting thicker for each hour. The hands are attached to a ring with a black circle in the center, though the second hand poked through. This clock was used from 1969-72; later variants feature an oblique serif typeface to typeset the word color. It was actually a real clock and filmed at the correct time, often appearing just before the actual ident.

'''Editor's Note:''' None.

===10th Logo (December 28, 1974-September 5, 1981)===

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'''Logo:''' Same as the previous logo, but this time, the background is {{Font color|mediumblue|dark blue}}, and the glowing continents are {{Font color|#FFD900|yellow}}. Also, below is the white text "'''{{Font|Futura|BBC 1}}'''" in the Futura typeface.

**Christmas 1980: Four Victorian skaters whiz around a snowman. There are daytime and nighttime variants of this ident too. (The mechanical model is bigger than it looks and takes up a whole coffee table!)

*'''Accompanying clock ident:''' Same as previous logo, but corresponds to the then-current colour scheme. The clock is {{Font color|#FFD900|yellow}} with a {{Font color|blue|blue}} background. The BBC 1 caption appears at the bottom, this time with no line above it.

'''FX/SFX:''' Same as the previous logo.

'''Editor's Note:''' None.

===11th Logo (September 5, 1981-February 18, 1985, October 23, 2012)===

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'''Logo:''' Same as the previous logo, but this time, "'''BBC 1'''" is stylized, and the continents are now {{Font color|lime|green}}.

*For the BBC's 60th Anniversary in 1982, instead of usual text "BBC1", the lower part shows a parallelogram with the number "60" and at the right was the word "BBC Years" in a script font.

*Another variation exists to celebrate 60 Years of Children's Programming. The number "60" is in Blippo typeface, as are the stacked words "BBC YEARS". At the right of the "6" is a green balloon.

*Accompanying clock ident: From 5 September to approximately December 1981, the clock was similar to the 69/74 clock, aside from the colours and the new striped byline. After this, a new computerised clock was introduced with minor changes to the design. The central dot, for example, changed from a circular outline to a green dot. Wales continued to use the old mechanical clock regionally till the very end.

'''FX/SFX:''' Same as the 2nd and the 3rd logo.

'''Final Note:''' This logo was retired because of the fact it was the only live mechanical model used by BBC1 by 1984, and the regular maintenance and calibration required was making it tiring and a hassle to use; even this logo could not help much in soothing common difficulties such as bad positioning, odd colours, etc. The globe was also becoming old-fashioned, due to its long service since the invention of colour, as well as the CGI revolution, which ironically began with sister channel BBC2, with their stripped "2" ident. The NODD system was abandoned with the globe, as all idents and clocks were now electronically generated. Programme slides remained the exception; they were still optically developed until the late 1980s when the programme slides became electronically generated with the quantel paintbox. The logo's last appearance was 5:35pm on Monday 18 February, introducing a new series of Grange Hill. London viewers would see it one more time, before ''London Plus'' at 6:35pm.

===12th Logo (February 18, 1985-February 16, 1991)===

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'''Logo:''' On a solid black background, a computer-generated, semi-transparent {{Font color|blue|blue}} globe with {{Font color|gold|golden}} landmasses slowly spins around at a steady pace throughout, and has the effect of a spotlight added to the surface. The planet being partially transparent as you can see the shadows of the continents on the other side of the world through the water. Underneath the globe, "{{Font color|gold|BBC 1}}" is written in a {{Font color|gold|gold}} serif font, similar to that used in the early days of the BBC.

**Christmas 1986 (Scotland): Just the regular COW Globe ident, but with small stars around it, making it look like a night sky. Most likely the least Christmassy Christmas ident ever done by the BBC.

**Christmas 1986 (Wales):The COW globe was replaced with a snow-covered church. A Christmas wreath shows where the COW globe would have been. 3 variants were made, Daytime, Nighttime and a completely dark version. The clock was also imposed onto the footage at closedown.

**Christmas 1987 (Northern Ireland): A rotating Christmas cake is seen depicting a snowy scene, featuring some trees and a house. The text "BBC1 Northern Ireland" ("Northern Ireland" stacked next to "BBC1") appears stamped to the bottom two times, with the other one having 2 pieces of holly stamped on the left and right.

**Christmas 1987 (Scotland):A tree is seen in the middle of a blue background in a circle. Then the text "CHRISTMAS ON" and "BBC1 SCOTLAND" appear in a circle around the tree in the circle, then the rest of the blue background turns different colours. For Hogmanay, this ident was used, albeit with "CHRISTMAS" replaced with "HOGMANAY".

**Christmas 1990: The globe appears superimposed on a face on the cover of a pop-up book about magic. The introduction sequence and promotions all featured the book opening and a wizard dancing round casting magic upon a variety of objects, mostly timepieces, such as a large clock face and hour glass. This was the last Christmas ident not to use a BBC logo.

**Hogsmanay 1990 (Scotland): BBC1 Scotland used the previous ident for that year, but for Hogsmanay a version of the COW was used: it's much bigger and a green party hat is on the top of it. The usual "BBC1 Scotland" text unusually appears on the top right, rather than the middle due to the size of the COW.

'''FX/SFX:''' The globe rotating, using nice looking computer graphics for its time.

'''Final Note:''' BBC1 ceased to use this logo in order to maintain a unified branding with BBC 2, which also switched to the 1991 "2" idents at the same time.

===13th Logo (1990, unused)===

'''Editor's Note:''' None.

===14th Logo February 16, 1991-October 4, 1997)===

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'''Logo:''' Same concept as before, except the globe is now on a space background and surrounded by a swirling smokey atmosphere, the stylized numeral "1" is in the center and now big. At the bottom of the screen we see a small BBC logo, this time with a line below each box. This was also the final time BBC One was called "BBC 1".

**Christmas 1991: Similar to the normal ident but the figure ‘1’ is inside a rotating, icy coloured moon, with Father Christmas in his sleigh flying around it. When it introduced the film ''Batman'', the bat symbol was superimposed on top. The ident was accompanied by a simple four note fanfare.

**Christmas 1992: A shining figure ‘1’ is at the bottom of a Christmas tree surrounded by various bouncing and moving toys. A photograph of HM The Queen was used at closedown because BBC deemed the ident "too jolly" to be used against the National Anthem.

**Christmas 1994: The figure ‘1’ is a Christmas present with a snowman either side of tipping their hats. This ident was unusual in that it had three different variations. In the run up to and on Christmas Eve it was neatly wrapped, on Christmas Day it was unwrapped by the snowmen to reveal a shining gold numeral and on Boxing Day and onwards the wrapping remains had been removed to display the gold numeral ‘1’. The Christmas Day version was occasionally used on and after Boxing Day. Normal idents were used for closedown.

**Christmas 1995: The figure ‘1’ is on top of a Christmas tree in place of a star, with starry glitter surrounding it and a toy plane flying around it. In addition, a variation was made without the plane, which was used at closedown.

**Christmas 1996: A brown circular box is opened by two toys to reveal a gold figure ‘1’ inside on a bluish-purple sparkling cushion. A version without the toy figures and the rim of the box shines via sparkling effect, which was used for closedown and introduction into serious programming.

'''FX/SFX:''' Same as before.

'''Editor's Note:''' None.

===15th Logo (October 4, 1997-March 29, 2002)===

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'''Logo:''' Inside a scene depending on one of several locations (seen below), a globe-patterned balloon flies. The pattern of the globe uses a {{Font color|red|red}} color for sea, and {{Font color|orange|orange}} color for the continent, and complete with clouds. Superimposed at the bottom of the screen is the current BBC logo with the text "ONE" next to it. Starting in December 1999, the URL: http://www.bbc.co.uk/ was put at the top of the logo (and was officially introduced in June 2000). This was also the first time the channel was named "BBC One".

*Eilean Donan Castle, Scottish Highlands

*Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre, Glasgow

*Dunluce Castle, Northern Ireland

*Strangford Lough, Northern Ireland

*South Downs (Near Arundel), West Sussex

*Port of Felixstowe, Suffolk

*Swinside Stone Circle, Cumbria

*Angel of the North

*St Michael's Mount

*Blackpool Tower

*The Needles, Isle of Wight

'''Variants:'''

*Beginning in 2000, there are new idents. The basic concept is same here, but features skateboarders, a busy market scene, a situation of bungee jumping, and a carnival.

*In 1999, a special edition was used when the balloon eclipsed the sunlight. This was due to a total solar eclipse of that year.

*For the celebration of UEFA Euro 2000, there is a variant where a goalkeeper spots the balloon, thinking that it is a soccer ball, and tries to catch it; unfortunately, this prevents him from saving the real soccer ball, which then hits the goal.

*Another variation has the balloon seen underwater by sharks.

*To celebrate the 2000 Olympics in Sydney, a variation was used. It nearly the same as original version, but the balloon was seen flying above the Sydney Opera House, while an athlete shone a flaming torch in its direction.

*One variant took place inside the balloon, and the flame can clearly be seen going off like a explosion.

***10 Lords A Leaping: Several lords appear bouncing on {{Font color|#FFD900|yellow}} space hoppers.

***8 Maids A Milking: A maid is seen balancing, with a bucket full of milk on her head.

***A Partridge in a Pear Tree: A paper partridge is flying around the {{Font color|#FFD900|yellow}} sphere.

**Christmas 1998: On a white background with falling snow, a {{Font color|red|red}} balloon is seen on the center of the screen. Sometimes, a reindeer or a couple of penguins are moving around.

**Christmas 2000: We see a view of Santa Claus dropping a present with a parachute. Then we see the complete scene of Santa Claus dropping presents all over the city, on the BBC 1 globe.

**Christmas 2001: Three toys (a dog, a car and a dinosaur) interact and fly around a room with balloons, with a Christmas tree on the side. We move to the window, where we can see the BBC 1 globe in the sky.

'''FX/SFX:''' Just the flying balloon.

'''Final Note:''' This ident marks the end of the globe symbol which had been associated with the BBC since 1963.

===16th Logo (March 29, 2002-October 7, 2006)===

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'''Logo:''' A scene of dancing is shown. At the bottom-left of the screen is a BBC One logo that consisted of a {{Font color|red|red}} square with small BBC logo at the top of big word "ONE" in center of it.

*Festival: Filmed at RAF Bovingdon, it begins with a close up of two women dancing together, somewhat resembling a rave party. Red takes on prominence in the background. Also known as "Rave".

*Haka: Filmed in a field in Wales, it first shows a closeup of a Māori native, Jo Hutley, and then pulls back to reveal 14 Welsh amateur rugby players performing Haka, a traditional Māori dance that shows art and movement by using hands, feet, legs, body, voice, tongue and eyes. The players are dressed in red-striped polo shirts. This ident was eventually withdrawn after licensing issues with the music, and did not appear in the final montage.

*Maasai: This ident was filmed on an African Savanna. It features nine native Maasai tribesmen dancing in the centre.

*Music Video: Filmed in studio with a red backdrop. It features one lead dancer and six back-up dancers. This ident resembles a music video, hence its name. Only seen on the premiere of Fame Academy.

*Tapdogs: This ident shows six members of the dance troupe Tap Dogs performing a tap dance.

*Tumbler: This ident features five people (all with some red on their clothes) breakdancing on a walkway. It had to be relaunched after 24 hours, apparently due to a copyright dispute over the background music. BBC One Scotland continued to use the original version until the rebranding in 2006. It was filmed on location at the now-demolished BBC Birmingham Pebble Mill studios, and was the final "Rhythm & Movement" ident to be added to its regular playlist.

'''Variants:'''

*The Channel 4's cable channel, E4, has a version that combines the 3 dances. The BBC One logo is also replaced by a purple box containing the E4 logo.

**Christmas 2004: Children dressed in {{Font color|red|red}} are bouncing on Space Hoppers that look like Christmas puddings, under white snow structures. This was designed by a young viewer of the children's programme ''Blue Peter'', as part of a competition.

**Christmas 2005: Several children, again dressed in {{Font color|red|red}}, are walking round a giant Christmas tree, carrying brightly coloured balls.

'''FX/SFX:''' Depends on the scene, but the BBC One logo is still.

*Tapdogs: An upbeat theme, incorporating the sound of the troupe's tap shoes.

*Tumbler: An upbeat jingle featuring synthesized brass.

'''Availability:''' No longer current. Was last seen on 7 October 2006.

'''Editor's Note:''' None.

===17th Logo (October 7, 2006-December 31, 2016)===

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'''Logo:''' Depends on the scene. At the center of the scene is the current BBC One logo, using BBC logo and the text "one" next to it, still large, but now in lowercase,in a proprietary font. It is set on a circular area. Starting in May 2009, the idents are shorter and the BBC One logo is formed before the main circle formation:

*Dog Show: TBA

*Lawn: TBA

'''FX/SFX:''' Same as the previous logo.

'''Editor's Note:''' None.

===18th Logo (January 1st, 2017-)===

'''Trivia:''' The BBC has commissioned Martin Parr, one of Britain’s leading documentary photo­graphers, to create 24 images and short films on the theme of “oneness”.

'''Music/Sounds:''' Sounds vary throughout the variants, ranging from ambience, to music.