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The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a national publicly-funded broadcaster based in the United Kingdom, which also has some international services. It is frequently heralded as the most widely respected broadcaster in the world. Sometimes affectionately known to local consumers as the "Beeb" or "Auntie", it was for many years the only television and radio provider in the United Kingdom. Its motto is Nation Shall Speak Peace Unto Nation.
Before the introduction of Independent Television in 1955 and subsequently Independent Radio in 1973, it held a monopoly on broadcasting. More recent de-regulation of the British television broadcasting market produced analogue cable television and satellite broadcasting and later digital satellite, digital cable and digital terrestrial television (DTT) . Today the BBC broadcasts in almost every medium including these and the Internet.