And two existing digital channels - BBC Choice and BBC Knowledge would be renamed BBC Three, offering youth-oriented programmes, and BBC Four, an arts and culture channel.

BBC: Digital: Booming or doomed?

"Our aspiration was that just as the Coronation did for TV in 1953, the Olympics would do for digital in 2012, " said Phil Fearnley, General Manager, News and Knowledge, BBC Future Media.

BBC: Serena Williams

BBC, has neither the knowledge of economics nor the feel for business that are needed.

ECONOMIST: Regulating communications

The committee said it was "surprised" that Lord Patten's knowledge of the BBC's output on television and radio was limited.

BBC: Lord Patten's BBC Trust role approved by MPs

In fact, the committee expressed surprise that Lord Patten's knowledge of the BBC's output on television and radio was limited, but considered him a suitable candidate for the post.

BBC: Profile: Lord Patten

"It's difficult for me to say how it came about because it was done without my knowledge, " he told BBC Sport.

BBC: Thompson gets Tannadice tribute

They have not been named, but a Swiss investigative journalist with knowledge of the story told the BBC that, according to his sources, one of them was Takilant owner Gayane Avakyan.

BBC: Uzbekistan's Gulnara Karimova linked to telecoms scandal

Dave Brown, from Lancashire, works for the global services arm of BT, told BBC Five Live that agency and contract staff were taken on in the knowledge they would be the first to go.

BBC: BT workers 'in a state of shock'

The BBC has seen documents prepared by senior managers at the CQC that clearly indicate knowledge not only of problems in the maternity unit at Furness General but across the trust.

BBC: Did health regulator overlook problems?

Ghana FA spokesman Randy Abbey denied any knowledge of the issue, but two players in the Black Stars' camp have confirmed the incident to BBC Sport.

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