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BBC biography

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is the world's oldest national broadcaster, and the largest broadcasting in the world by number of employees, employing over 22,000 staff in total, of whom more than 19,000 are in public sector broadcasting. The total number of BBC staff amounts to 35,402 including part-time, flexible, and fixed-contract staff.Around a quarter of BBC's revenue comes from its commercial subsidiary BBC Studios (formerly BBC Worldwide), which sells BBC programmes and services internationally and also distributes the BBC's international 24-hour English-language news services BBC World News, provided by BBC Global News Ltd. In 2009, the company was awarded the Queen's Awards for Enterprise in recognition of its international achievements, the BBC has played a prominent role in British life and culture, through the Second World War (where its broadcasts helped to unite the nation), to the popularisation of television in the post-WW2 era and the internet in the late 20th and early 21st centuries