bbc.co.uk
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BBC - HomeThe best of the BBC, with the latest news and sport headlines, weather, TV & radio highlights and much more from across the whole of BBC Online.
BBC - HomeThe best of the BBC, with the latest news and sport headlines, weather, TV & radio highlights and much more from across the whole of BBC Online.
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Business details
- Category
- News and magazines
- Years in business
- 18 years
- Founded
- 1922
- Owned by
- Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
- Registered with
- Charity Commission, charity 802052Matched on the Charity Commission register
- Sells to
- The public
- Kind of seller
- Information or media
- Domain age
- 31 years
- Address
- 76 Highbury Park, London, N5 2XE, England
- Email address
- Not found
- Phone number
- +44 370 010 0222
- Contact page
- bbc.co.uk/
contact - Website
- bbc.co.uk
- Social media
Customer reviews
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Is bbc.co.uk legit and trustworthy? Truth score 92 out of 100, high truth signals: 9 of 12 public checks clear, 3 for information. Legitimacy confidence: high. Customer satisfaction: not enough reviews to say.
bbc.co.uk is run by Bbc Limited, part of Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, an active UK company registered at Companies House 18 years ago, and was founded in 1922. Its website address was registered 31 years ago, and is locked against transfer to someone else. It is among the 2,000 most-visited sites on the internet (Cloudflare Radar). It has a review page on Trustpilot. No malware or phishing warnings found for its website. We could not find a customer rating or an email address.
Important context: Truth Signal weighs public evidence about this business. A high score means strong evidence that the business is established and legitimate, not a promise that it is safe to buy from or that every purchase will go well. A low score means the evidence is thin or raises concerns, not that the business is unsafe or a scam.
Positives
- An active UK company registered at Companies House, set up 18 years ago.
- Its website address was registered 31 years ago.
- It is among the 2,000 most-visited sites on the internet (Cloudflare Radar).
- It has a review page on Trustpilot.
- No malware or phishing warnings found for its website.
Not found
- Reviews information was not found from our checks.
- Email address information was not found from our checks.
What they offer
The best of the BBC, with the latest news and sport headlines, weather, TV & radio highlights and much more from across the whole of BBC Online.
BBC offers support and help through their help page, which can be found in the sources below.
How to check if bbc.co.uk is legit
To check if bbc.co.uk is legit yourself, look at the same public records we did: the company register, who owns the web address and since when, customer reviews, visitor numbers, how long the site has existed, social profiles, malware lists, data breaches and email security. Each row below shows what that record says about bbc.co.uk; open a row to see the facts and the source to check them yourself. Step by step: how to know if a shopping site is legit.
Who they are
Company detailsAn active UK company registered at Companies House, set up 18 years ago
- Its registered office at Companies House is 76 Highbury Park, London, N5 2XE, England
- Its latest accounts at Companies House run to 28 February 2025
- Its directors and owners are named at Companies House
- It has filed at Companies House regularly for the last five years, with no gap longer than 15 months
- Where the company is based
- UK
- Why we believe that
- it is registered at Companies House as BBC LIMITED, its phone number starts +44
- Which countries the company serves
- UK, US
- Why we believe that
- its address ends .uk, £ prices on its homepage, $ prices on its homepage
- Companies House registration
- Registered as BBC LIMITED
- VAT number
- Not found
- Better Business Bureau profile
- Not found
- Company found in official company register
- Yes
- Registered company name
- BBC LIMITED
- Company status
- active
- Company age
- 18 years
- Registered address
- 76 Highbury Park, London, N5 2XE, England
- Accounts overdue
- No
- Confirmation statement overdue
- No
- Insolvency history
- No
- Registered office in dispute
- No
- Filing history consistent
- Yes
- Company type
- Private limited company
- Accounts filed
- Dormant company accountsThe company says it did no business in that year.
- Secured loans (charges)
- 0No secured loans outstanding at Companies House.
- Trade name
- text: BBC, language: en
- Type (Wikipedia)
- statutory corporation
- Industry
- journalism
- Parent company
- Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
- Founded
- 1922
- Employees
- 20916
- Revenue
- 4963000000 pound sterling
Official registersRegistered with the Charity Commission as charity 802052 since 1 September 1989. Matched on its website and its name.
- Charity number
- 802052
- Registered since
- 1 September 1989
- Latest income
- £61,012,000
- What it does
- The Charity?s objects are to further such exclusively charitable objects and purposes in any part of the United Kingdom, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man as the Directors may in their discretion think fit and in particular (without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing) to relieve need, hardship, sickness, handicap and distress amongst children and young persons.
Domain registrationIts website address was registered 31 years ago
- Its website address is locked against being transferred to someone else
- Domain age
- 31 years
- Domain transfer lock enabled
- Yes
Website detailsWe read 4 of its pages: contact, about, terms and privacy
- Company contact phone number is available
- HTTPS enabled
- Yes
- Contact phone number found
- +44 370 010 0222
- Contact page found
- Contact page
Reputation and track record
Customer reviewsIt has a review page on Trustpilot
| Platform | Rating | Reviews |
|---|---|---|
| Trustpilot | Unknown | Unknown |
| SmartCustomer | Not found | |
| G2 | Not found | |
| Capterra | Not found | |
| Reviews.io | Not found | |
| Feefo | Not found | |
| Trustindex | Not found | |
| Not checked |
App StoreIts app, BBC iPlayer, is on Apple's App Store, rated 4.6 out of 5 from 255,271 ratings. App ratings are not counted as reviews.
- App
- BBC iPlayer
- App Store page
- https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/bbc-iplayer/id416580485
- App Store rating
- 4.6 out of 5
- App Store ratings
- 255,271
Visitor trafficIt is among the 2,000 most-visited sites on the internet (Cloudflare Radar)
- Real people visited its website in 24 of the last 24 months
- Real people have visited its website since February 2021 or earlier
- Popularity among Chrome users
- top 1,000 sites
- First known user traffic
- Feb 2021 or earlier
- Months with real traffic, of the last 24
- 24
- Traffic pattern
- sustained
- Rank jump in the last 12 months
- none
- Rank drop in the last 12 months
- none
- Popularity across the internet
- top 2,000 sites
Web history and authorityFound: wikipedia page
- Wikipedia page
- yes
Social presenceIt is on 4 social media platforms (Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and X); the largest audience is 11,433,512 followers on Facebook
Safety
Malware and phishingNo malware or phishing warnings found for its websiteThis check is not perfect: it can miss a harmful site, and it can wrongly warn about a safe one.
- Malware or phishing threat status
- None
Data breach historyNo known data breach involving the company
- Known data breaches found
- 0
Domain and email securityIts email is protected: mail forged in its name is blocked
- MX records
- Yes
- SPF record
- Yes
- DMARC record
- Yes
- DMARC policy
- reject
- Security certificate browsers warn about
- No
- Certificate issuer
- GlobalSign nv-sa
- Certificate type
- OV
- Certificate expires
- 24 Jan 2027
- Nameservers
- ddns0.bbc.co.uk
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dns1.bbc.com - Address
- 151.101.0.81
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