BBC

===News===
{{Main|BBC News}}
[[File:BBC Broadcasting House newsroom and studio 2013.jpg|thumb|right|The new newsroom in Broadcasting House, central London, officially opened by [[Elizabeth II|the Queen]] in 2013]]

BBC News is the largest broadcast news gathering operation in the world,<ref name="About BBC News Website">{{cite news|title=This is BBC News|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/aboutbbcnews/hi/this_is_bbc_news/default.stm|work=About BBC News|publisher=BBC|access-date=12 July 2011|date=13 September 2006|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110728131932/http://news.bbc.co.uk/aboutbbcnews/hi/this_is_bbc_news/default.stm|archive-date=28 July 2011|url-status=live}}</ref> providing services to BBC domestic radio as well as television networks such as the [[BBC News (TV channel)|BBC News]], BBC Parliament and [[BBC World News]]. In addition to this, news stories are available on the BBC Red Button service and [[BBC News Online]]. In addition to this, the BBC has been developing new ways to access BBC News and as a result, has launched the service on BBC Mobile, making it accessible to mobile phones and PDAs, as well as developing alerts by email, on digital television, and on computers through a [[BBC Alerts|desktop alert]].

Ratings figures suggest that during major incidents such as the [[7 July 2005 London bombings]] or royal events, the UK audience overwhelmingly turns to the BBC's coverage as opposed to its commercial rivals.<ref>{{cite news |last=Cozens |first=Claire |title=BBC news ratings double |newspaper=[[The Guardian]]|location=UK |date=8 July 2005 |url=http://media.guardian.co.uk/overnights/story/0,,1524235,00.html |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120710061137/http://media.guardian.co.uk/overnights/story/0,,1524235,00.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=10 July 2012 |access-date=25 December 2006 }}</ref>
On 7 July 2005, the day that there were a series of coordinated bomb blasts on London's public transport system, the BBC Online website recorded an all time [[bandwidth (computing)|bandwidth]] peak of 11&nbsp;[[gigabit|Gb]]/s at 12.00 on 7 July. BBC News received some 1&nbsp;billion total hits on the day of the event (including all images, text, and [[HTML]]), serving some 5.5 [[terabyte]]s of data. At peak times during the day, there were 40,000-page requests per second for the BBC News website. The previous day's announcement of the [[2012 Olympics]] being awarded to London caused a peak of around 5&nbsp;Gbit/s. The previous all-time high at BBC Online was caused by the announcement of the [[Michael Jackson]] verdict, which used 7.2&nbsp;Gbit/s.<ref>{{cite web|title=Statistics on BBC Webservers 7&nbsp;July 2005 |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/feedback/07July_Statistics.shtml |author=BBC |access-date=13 November 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061012141440/http://www.bbc.co.uk/feedback/07July_Statistics.shtml |archive-date=12 October 2006 |url-status=live  }}</ref>