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Children In Need Choir
Since 2011 one of the recurring acts on the BBC telethon Children in Need has been a choir where usually over 1000 children come together in the studio and in around 8–10 locations across the UK and sing one song live in unison from the various locations. These choirs are created by the BBC local news regions using local schools and theatre groups and they usually sing from where the regional outside broadcast takes place. The performance usually starts in the studio and cuts between to the different locations throughout the performance before ending in the studio (2022 and 2023 do not start in the studio) with a short 20–30 second instrumental break to show a montage of clips from the night's appeal films. However, since 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic the choir there have been fewer singers and the choirs across the UK have been pre-recorded with only the studio choir singing live. Earlier Link-Ups The idea for nationwide link ups on Children in Need has been around since th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Telethon
A telethon (a portmanteau of "television" and "marathon") is a televised fundraising event that lasts many hours or days, the purpose of which is to raise money for a charitable, political or other cause. Most telethons feature heavy solicitations for pledges (promises to donate funds at a later time) by masters of ceremonies or hosts, who are often local celebrities or media personalities combined with variety show style entertainment such as singers, bands and instrumentalists. In some cases, telethons feature content related to the cause being supported, such as interviews with charitable beneficiaries, tours of charity-supported projects, or pre-taped sequences. The equivalent term for a radio broadcast is a radiothon; most radiothons do not include live entertainment. In the United States, the first telethon used for political outreach occurred in 1960. The highest donating telethon per capita in the world is the Channel Seven Perth Telethon in Perth, Western Australia. It ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bournemouth
Bournemouth ( ) is a coastal resort town in the Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole unitary authority area, in the ceremonial county of Dorset, England. At the 2021 census, the built-up area had a population of 196,455, making it the largest town in Dorset. Previously an uninhabited heathland, visited only by occasional fishermen and smugglers, a health resort was founded in the area by Lewis Tregonwell in 1810. After the Ringwood, Christchurch and Bournemouth Railway opened in 1870, it grew into an important resort town which attracts over five million visitors annually to the town's beaches and nightlife. Financial services provide significant employment. Part of Hampshire since before the Domesday Book, Bournemouth was assigned to Dorset under the Local Government Act 1972 in 1974. Bournemouth Borough Council became a unitary authority in 1997 and was replaced by Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Council in 2019; the current unitary authority also covers Poole, Chr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BBC West
BBC West is one of the BBC's English Regions serving Bristol, Somerset, the majority of Wiltshire and Gloucestershire and north of Dorset. Services Television BBC West's television service (broadcast on BBC One) consists of the flagship regional news service '' BBC Points West'' and a 30 minute political programme '' Sunday Politics''. Radio The region has four local radio stations; BBC Radio Bristol, BBC Radio Gloucestershire, BBC Radio Somerset & BBC Radio Wiltshire. They broadcast local programming every weekday between 6am and 2pm. Bristol and Somerset share one programme between 2pm and 6pm with Gloucestershire and Wiltshire sharing another. All carry local news bulletins during shared afternoon programmes although one station per programme will play out a pre-recorded bulletin. Evening weekday programmes are shared regionally across all four stations. A national late show from Manchester or London is then broadcast between 10pm and 1am. Weekend programmes are sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bristol
Bristol () is a City status in the United Kingdom, cathedral city, unitary authority area and ceremonial county in South West England, the most populous city in the region. Built around the River Avon, Bristol, River Avon, it is bordered by the ceremonial counties of Gloucestershire to the north and Somerset to the south. The county is in the West of England combined authority area, which includes the Greater Bristol area (List of urban areas in the United Kingdom, eleventh most populous urban area in the United Kingdom) and nearby places such as Bath, Somerset, Bath. Bristol is the second largest city in Southern England, after the capital London. Iron Age hillforts and Roman villas were built near the confluence of the rivers River Frome, Bristol, Frome and Avon. Bristol received a royal charter in 1155 and was historic counties of England, historically divided between Gloucestershire and Somerset until 1373 when it became a county corporate. From the 13th to the 18th centur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BBC North East And Cumbria
BBC North East and Cumbria is one of the BBC's BBC English Regions, English regions covering Newcastle upon Tyne, North Tyneside, Gateshead, South Tyneside, City of Sunderland, County Durham, Northumberland, north and mid Cumbria and parts of North Yorkshire. The region provides unique BBC One programming, including regional news programmes, and Local BBC Radio, local radio stations. It is headquartered at Broadcasting Centre, Spital Tongues, Newcastle upon Tyne. Services Television ''BBC North East & Cumbrias television output, headquartered in Newcastle, is broadcast on BBC One, and consists of the flagship regional news service ''BBC Look North (North East and Cumbria), Look North'' and ''Politics North''. The rugby league highlights programme ''Super League Show, The Super League Show'', produced by PDI Media at BBC Yorkshire's studio in Leeds, is also broadcast to North East and Cumbria. Radio The region is the controlling centre for three BBC Local Radio, local radio stat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MetroCentre (shopping Centre)
Metrocentre (previously styled as MetroCentre) is a shopping centre and entertainment complex in the Dunston, Tyne and Wear, Dunston area of Gateshead. It is located on the former site of Dunston Power Station, near to the River Tyne. Metrocentre opened in stages, with the first phase opening on 28 April 1986, and the official opening being held on 14 October that year. It has 210 shops, 63 restaurants, an Odeon cinema, a Clip n’ Climb, a bowling alley, a Namco Funscape, The Escapologist and Treetop Golf, occupying over of retail floor space, making it List of shopping centres in the United Kingdom by size, one of the largest shopping centres in the UK. Additional retail space can be found in the adjoining Metro Retail Park and MetrOasis. History Metrocentre's construction was financed by the Church Commissioners, Church Commissioners of England, and was masterminded by John Hall (English businessman), Sir John Hall's company, Cameron Hall Developments. The ground upon whic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gateshead
Gateshead () is a town in the Gateshead Metropolitan Borough of Tyne and Wear, England. It is on the River Tyne's southern bank. The town's attractions include the twenty metre tall Angel of the North sculpture on the town's southern outskirts, The Glasshouse International Centre for Music and the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art. The town shares the Gateshead Millennium Bridge, Millennium Bridge, Tyne Bridge and multiple other bridges with Newcastle upon Tyne. Historic counties of England, Historically part of County Durham, under the Local Government Act 1888 the town was made a county borough, meaning it was administered independently of the county council. In the 2021 United Kingdom census, 2021 Census, the town had a population of 196,151. Etymology Gateshead is first mentioned in Latin translation in Bede, Bede's ''Ecclesiastical History of the English People'' as ''ad caput caprae'' ("at the goat's head"). This interpretation is consistent with the later English attes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BBC East
BBC East is one of BBC's English Regions covering Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, Cambridgeshire, Northamptonshire, Bedfordshire and parts of Hertfordshire and Buckinghamshire (including the City of Milton Keynes). It is headquartered in The Forum, Norwich since 2003. It was also separated into two areas, one with the East area covering mostly in Norfolk, Suffolk & Essex, and another from the West area which covers from Cambridge, serving mostly Cambridgeshire, Northamptonshire and the three counties. Services Television ''BBC Easts television output (broadcast on BBC One) consists of its flagship regional news service '' BBC Look East'', as well as a 30-minute Sunday morning politics programme. Former programmes include ''Weekend'', ''East on Two'', ''Matter of Fact'' and the football magazine show '' Late Kick Off'' (produced by the independent production company Kevin Piper Media). Radio The region is the controlling centre for BBC Radio Norfolk, BBC Radio Suffolk, BBC Es ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norwich
Norwich () is a cathedral city and district of the county of Norfolk, England, of which it is the county town. It lies by the River Wensum, about north-east of London, north of Ipswich and east of Peterborough. The population of the Norwich City Council local authority area was estimated to be 144,000 in 2021, which was an increase from 143,135 in 2019. The wider Norwich List of urban areas in the United Kingdom, built-up area had a population of 213,166 at the 2011 census. As the seat of the Episcopal see, See of Norwich, the city has one of the country's largest medieval cathedrals. For much of the second millennium, from medieval to just before Industrial Revolution, industrial times, Norwich was one of the most prosperous and largest towns of England; at one point, it was List of towns and cities in England by historical population, second only to London. Today, it is the largest settlement in East Anglia. Heritage and status Norwich claims to be the most complete medie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BBC South West
BBC South West is the BBC English Region serving Cornwall, Devon, Isles of Scilly, West Somerset, West Dorset and Channel Islands. Services Television ''BBC South Wests television service (broadcast on BBC One South West) consists of the flagship regional news service '' Spotlight'', the opt-out service '' BBC Channel Islands'', and a 20-minute opt-out during '' Sunday Politics''. BBC South West covers Cornwall, Channel Islands, Devon, West Dorset and West Somerset. Due to the size of West Dorset, the listenership of BBC Radio Solent is covered by both BBC South and BBC South West. Radio The region is the controlling centre for BBC Radio Devon, BBC Radio Cornwall, BBC Radio Somerset, BBC Radio Jersey and BBC Radio Guernsey. On weekdays, the five stations carry local programming between 5am and 7pm before joining together for networked programming between 7pm and closedown at 1am. Weekend evening programmes are also simulcast with stations in the BBC West region. Onl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
