Adults of Great Britain.BBC News is an international agency, but its main audience has always been the British people, since it started in the United Kingdom in the 1920s, and it became so successful there that it dominated the news world of Great Britain for several decades, and it still does, now consolidated as one of the bignews names in the world. The British people are so important an audience that in 1997 BBC News 24, a division of BBC created to report news of the British national context, was launched for television. This is one of the few cases were the BBC has a separate newsreel for a specific country. But the British are not the only ones who follow BBC News.
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Adults of America.European news agencies have an impact on Americans, and BBC News is the most prominent of European agencies in the United States, due to the BBC's long-standing credibility and the socio-cultural similarities between the two countries. Since most of the news agencies in the world are US-based, having a non-American one with such influence on the other side of the world represents an interesting element of modern journalism. The American people receive a different view from their in national affairs from BBC News, which stimulates diversity of opinions among the audience by having standpoints different from the common national opinion created by common national media, i.e. CNN, NBC, or ABC.
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Who else follows BBC News?
Adults with Internet access.
In recent years, BBC News has expanded from Television and Radio into the World Wide Web, and it has become a way of informing people more easily, accurately, and quickly, since 3 out of 7 people in the world have internet access. For those who don't have internet access, or who prefer more traditional media, there are other ways to make the news get to them. |
Adults with Television.
In the late 40s, BBC started transmitting newsreels through the "Telly", a new form of mass communication. Through the 50s and 60s, it was the main form of information distribution alongside radio and newspaper. Today, television is still one of the most important means of communication, if not the most important one, because 5 out of 7 people worldwide have a TV. |
Adults with Radio.
If BBC had not become so popular during the 20s and 30s through radio, it wouldn't enjoy its current success. Back then, radio was the main mean of information besides newspaper, and it remained prominent worldwide for years to come, although fairly recently having to compete with Television and the Internet. In 2016, 147 million people listened to BBC News every week. |