BBC (disambiguation)

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The BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) is the national publicly funded broadcaster of the United Kingdom.

BBC is a three-letter abbreviation with multiple meanings, and may also refer to:

• BBC, the ICAO airline code of Biman Bangladesh Airlines
• Brown, Boveri & Cie, now Asea Brown Boveri, a multinational power/automation company headquartered in Zürich, Switzerland
• Breakthrough Breast Cancer, a British charity
• "BBC" (song), a song by Ming Tea written for the movie Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery
• BBC, the English appearance of the Cyrillic letters ВВС (VVS), the acronym for the Russian Air Force
• British Born Chinese, an alternate name for British Chinese
• Billionaire Boys Club, the 1980s southern California investment group organized by Joe Gamsky (aka "Joe Hunt")
• Billionaire Boys Club (clothing), the fashion label set up by Pharrell Williams/The Neptunes/Star Trak
• Bluegrass Brewing Company, a Kentucky based microbrewery
• (front) Bumper to Back of Cab, a key dimension of trucks
• Big Block Chevy (see Chevrolet Big-Block engine)
• Bionicle Based Creation, a fan-created Bionicle creation that was not a set originally marketed by the Lego Group.

In politics and government:

• Biplobi Bangla Congress, a political party in West Bengal, India
• Blackpool Borough Council
• Bournemouth Borough Council, an English unitary authority
• Belgo-British Conference

In Popular Culture

• Acronym for Big Black Cock, in the Interracial relations circuit. The phrase was coined by Steve Reid - a New Zealand celebrity.

In education:

• Brisbane Boys' College, an all boys day and boarding school located in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
• Baptist Bible College, a Christian college in Clarks Summit, Pennsylvania

In broadcasting:

• British Broadcasting Company Ltd (1922–1926), the commercial precursor of the British Broadcasting Corporation
• Banahaw Broadcasting Corporation, located in the Philippines
• Biwako Broadcasting Co., Ltd., a TV station in Shiga Prefecture, Japan
• Barrington Broadcasting Company, LLC, a U.S. TV station headquartered in Hoffman Estates, Illinois
• Broadbank Burbcasting Company, daily program hosted by Gary Burbank on radio station WLW in Cincinnati, Ohio

In computers:

• BBC Micro, an early home computer from the 1980s
• Boston Business Computing, former owners of the domain name bbc.com[1]
• Big Blue and Cousins, the Greater Victoria PC Users' Association
• LNX-BBC, a mini-Linux distribution
• BBCode, a markup language commonly used on message boards
• Big Blue Cup, Adventure Game Studio's logo and mascot
• BBC Radio Ripper a windows program for converting Real Player stream audio to mp3 format

In entertainment

• Bombay Bicycle Club, Indie/Rock 3-Piece from North London