ELI5: Explain Like I'm 5

British Broadcasting Company

The British Broadcasting Company, also known as the BBC, is a special group of people who make and share information and entertainment with everyone in the United Kingdom. They try their very best to make sure that everyone in the UK gets to see and hear all kinds of different things, like news, TV shows, movies, and music, from all over the world.

The BBC was created by the UK government many years ago, and it's run by special people who are really good at making sure everything happens just right. They work really hard to find important news and make sure people understand it, as well as finding fun and exciting TV shows and movies for you to watch.

In the UK, people have to pay a special tax called a license fee to watch TV. This is how the BBC is able to make all the great things they share with everyone.

So if you're in the UK and see the letters BBC, you can trust that you're about to see or hear something really interesting or important, and that there are lots of people working hard to make sure it stays that way.