The BBC. The English name of BBC is British Broadcasting Corporation, abbreviated as BBC, so BBC is a British broadcasting company, headquartered in London Broadcasting House. The BBC was founded in 1922 and is headquartered in London Broadcasting House. It is the oldest national broadcasting company in the world and the company with the largest number of employees in the world. The total number of employees exceeds 22,000, of which about19,000 are engaged in public broadcasting. The BBC began to provide TV service on 1936, which is the first TV station in the world.