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BBC Parliament

 
Description: BBC Parliament is a British television channel from the BBC. It broadcasts live and recorded coverage of the British ... more
BBC Parliament ... House of Commons and House of Lords, Select Committees, the Northern Ireland Assembly, the Scottish Parliament and the Welsh Assembly, and occasionally from the General Synod of the Church of England. The Channel also broadcasts reports from the European Parliament.

Newest Review: ... best. The channel, which might be better described as BBC Politics rather than BBC Parliament, has live coverage from the House of Commons, but also shows the House of Lords, select committee hearings, the Welsh Assembly, the Northern Ireland Assembly and the Scottish Parliament. The channel in addition has programmes which cover the day's political news, European coverage and also some ... more

 ... coverage of US politics. It doesn't in the main have much coverage such as Newsnight on BBC 2 would offer, ie, a magazine type of television programme. Currently, every Bank Holiday the channel shows all-day repeats of previous General Elections. The audie...more

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julwhite
Premium Review BBC Parliament - Essential Public Service Broadcasting (466 words)
by julwhite - written on 16/05/07 (Very useful, 60 readings)
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BBC Parliament is available as a free to air digital channels, available on most platforms such as Sky, Freeview and also via the Internet. It is funded by the BBC and provides near 24 hours coverage of politics and Parliament. The channel is not designed to appeal to the majority of the public, in the same way that Hansard (the written record of Parliament) is not designed to be a best-seller. It is one of those services which is there to make politics accessible and it means that it is available to those that want to see it. Democracy is inevitably aided by any mechanism which allows any member of the public to watch their elected representatives ...

JB01
Premium Review BBC PARLIMENT - THE FACTS (629 words)
by JB01 - written on 09/07/06 (Very useful, 390 readings)
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Further to the purchase of my freeview digital box for my analogue TV another BBC channel. BBC PARLIAMENT a specialist channel by the beeb formally called the Parliamentary channel to quote the channels editor “BBC Parliament is the channel dedicated to detailed coverage of Parliament & Politics“. Some of the information that follows is from the website by Wikipedia. Launched 23.September.1998 and owned by the BBC, it has a low audience rating of almost zero (May 2006). AVAILABILITY Terrestrial - Freeview channel 81. Satellite - Sky Digital channel 504. Cable - NTL channel 128/13. - Telewest channel 612. ...

BBC Parliament: its bed time (98 words)
by - written on 12/12/00
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This really most be the biggest waste of licence payers money - can none cable subscribers actually get this channel? If you want to see major changes in british law being listiened to by 3 men and a dog then tune in here! The only good thing that it does is to show you just how hard working your elective representatives in parliament - i dont think. This really is snooze time tv if you cant sleep turn this on you'll be asleep in seconds. Instead of just showing debates why not have interviews with mps etc on it. ...

 

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