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Who runs BBC, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest public broadcaster alternatives.

Who’s behind it
Not stated
Online since
Unknown
Trackers
Prices
No pricing page
Last price change
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Closest alternative
Channel 4

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01 · Who’s behind it

Who runs BBC

BBC bbc.co.uk

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.

Wikidata: British public service broadcaster

Company
No imprint we could read
Online since
Not in the Internet Archive
Audience
In English

02 · Privacy

What BBC tracks

What the homepage loads before you accept or decline cookies. A cookie banner should hold most of it back until you agree, and a tag manager can load more that we don’t see.

tracker that follows visitors

6 of the 14 alternatives below have fewer, 6 have more.

Privacy-friendly alternatives →
Cookie banner
None found
US company
1 tool
  • Visitor analytics

    Counts and follows visits, usually with cookies.

03 · Alternatives

Alternatives to BBC

Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to BBC, thumbs down if it isn’t.

Fewer trackers than BBCNo ad trackersRegistered in the EUFree planOnly in English

20 of the 60 sites closest to BBC match.

  1. 01
    Channel 4 channel4.com Top 10K English 1 tracker

    Channel 4 | Stream & Watch Live TV

    Watch your favourite shows online, from Channel 4, E4 and Walter Presents

    Compare Channel 4 with BBC →
  2. 02
    ard.de German No trackers

    ARD.de – TV, Radio, Streams, News, Sport und alles zur ARD | ard.de

    Die ganze ARD: Fernsehen, Livestreams, Radio, Podcasts, Nachrichten, Sport und Kinderkanal. Zudem Infos über den Medienverbund und ARD-Pressemeldungen.

    Compare ard.de with BBC →
  3. 03
    Raidió Teilifís Éireann rte.ie Top 10K English 3 trackers

    RTÉ Ireland's National Television and Radio Broadcaster

    RTÉ news brings you the latest Irish news, world news, international news and up to the minute reports on breaking Irish news stories and news from around the world. Watch and listen to Irish news stories on our video and audio streams.

    Compare Raidió Teilifís Éireann with BBC →
  4. 04
    Australian Broadcasting Corporation abc.net.au Top 10K English 1 tracker

    ABC News & Headlines – Australian Broadcasting Corporation

    Follow the latest headlines from ABC News, Australia's most trusted media source, with live events, audio and on-demand video from the national broadcaster.

    Compare Australian Broadcasting Corporation with BBC →
  5. 05
    Nederlandse Omroep Stichting nos.nl Top 10K Dutch No trackers

    NOS.nl - Nieuws, Sport en Evenementen | Nederlandse Omroep Stichting

    NOS.nl - Nieuws, Sport en Evenementen op Radio, TV en Internet

    Compare Nederlandse Omroep Stichting with BBC →
  6. 06
    TG4 tg4.ie English No trackers

    TG4 | Teilifís Gaeilge

    Irish-language television network

    Compare TG4 with BBC →
  7. 07
    Sveriges Television svt.se Top 10K Swedish No trackers

    SVT Nyheter

    SVT Nyheter med senaste nytt om dagens viktigaste nyheter, live, lokala nyheter, väder, recensioner och sportens målservice.

    Compare Sveriges Television with BBC →
  8. 08
    DR dr.dk Top 10K Danish No trackers

    DR: Nyheder - Breaking - TV - Radio

    Dit Nyhedsoverblik: Breaking news og seneste nyheder - Stream DR’s programmer på DRTV - Hør podcast på DR LYD

    Compare DR with BBC →
  9. 09
    npo.nl Dutch No trackers

    De portal van de Publieke Omroep

    Op NPO.nl vind je programma's, documentaires, podcasts en artikelen over één onderwerp van verschillende omroepen op één pagina.

    Compare npo.nl with BBC →
  10. 10
    ORF.at orf.at Top 10K German No trackers

    news.ORF.at

    news.ORF.at: Die aktuellsten Nachrichten auf einen Blick - aus Österreich und der ganzen Welt. In Text, Bild und Video.

    Compare ORF.at with BBC →
  11. 11
    Channel 5 channel5.com English No trackers

    No access outside UK

    British TV station

    Compare Channel 5 with BBC →
  12. 12
    RFI rfi.fr Top 10K English No trackers

    RFI - All the news from France, Europe, Africa and the rest of the world.

    Follow any political information, cultural, sporting and live streaming on RFI. The latest information, news and events around the world.

    Compare RFI with BBC →
  13. 13
    NRK.no nrk.no Top 10K Norwegian Bokmål No trackers

    NRK.no – nyheter, tv og radio fra Norge og hele verden

    NRK.no er Norges største tilbud på nett: nyheter fra Norge og verden, lokalnyheter, radio- og tv-program, podcast, vær, helse-, kultur-, underholdning-, humor- og debattstoff.

    Compare NRK.no with BBC →
  14. 14
    RTVE rtve.es Top 10K Spanish No trackers

    Noticias de última hora, programas y series de televisión - RTVE.es

    Noticias, deportes, actualidad, álbumes, series y programas, y la última hora de España y el mundo.

    Compare RTVE with BBC →
  15. 15
    CGTN cgtn.com Top 10K English 2 trackers

    CGTN | Breaking News, China News, World News and Video

    Get the news as it breaks and go behind the day's top stories, from politics, business, culture and sports to nature, travel and technology. CGTN delivers a Chinese perspective on global news through innovative use of the latest media tools.

    Compare CGTN with BBC →
  16. 16
    tagesschau.de Top 10K German No trackers

    tagesschau.de - die erste Adresse für Nachrichten und Information | tagesschau.de

    tagesschau.de - die erste Adresse für Nachrichten und Information: An 365 Tagen im Jahr, rund um die Uhr aktualisiert - die wichtigsten News des Tages

    Compare tagesschau.de with BBC →
  17. 17
    WDR wdr.de Top 10K German No trackers

    WDR - Nachrichten und Geschichten aus NRW

    Aktuelle Nachrichten aus Nordrhein-Westfalen (NRW). Aktuelle News und Reportagen aus Sport, Verbraucher, Kultur und Politik. Außerdem Reportagen aus den großen Städten wie Köln, Düsseldorf oder Dortmund und den Regionen.

    Compare WDR with BBC →
  18. 18
    France 24 france24.com Top 10K English No trackers

    France 24 - International breaking news, top stories and headlines

    Breaking news and world news from France 24 on Business, Sports, Culture. Video news. News from the US, Europe, Asia Pacific, Africa, Middle East, America

    Compare France 24 with BBC →
  19. 19
    Bayerischer Rundfunk br.de Top 10K German No trackers

    Bayerischer Rundfunk: Nachrichten von BR24, Highlights aus der BR Mediathek, Live Radio hören und BR.de-Specials - die Startseite für Bayern | BR.de

    Der Bayerische Rundfunk bietet Fernseh- und Radioprogramm und regionale Informationen aus ganz Bayern und den Regionen Schwaben, Oberbayern, Niederbayern, Oberpfalz, Oberfranken, Unterfranken und Mittelfranken.

    Compare Bayerischer Rundfunk with BBC →
  20. 20
    ZDF zdf.de Top 10K German No trackers

    ZDF Streaming-Portal: Filme, Serien und Dokus online anschauen

    Alle Videos und Livestreams im ZDF anschauen - ständig verfügbar und interaktiv! Entdecke Filme, Serien, Sportevents, Dokumentationen und vieles mehr!

    Compare ZDF with BBC →

Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles BBC’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones BBC uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the order.

04 · History

No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what BBC adds, drops or rewrites shows up here.

05 · Details

How we measure

Alternatives are matched by what sites actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Trackers and the rest of the stack come from the homepage’s code and DNS records.

The full technology stack, the competitor map and search numbers · 10 technologies
Neighbours
k = 60
Sites searched
9,208
Vector
384-d
Query
42 ms

Competitor map

Each alternative by how close its vector is to BBC’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.

similarity × popularity

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Sitemaps

, 21,562 of them guides, blog or magazine pages.