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Company type | Charity |
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Founded | 1982 |
Defunct | 23 July 2020[1] |
Headquarters | United Kingdom |
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ssvc |
The Services Sound and Vision Corporation (SSVC) was a British registered charity. [2]
Set up in 1982 from the merger of the Services Kinema Corporation (SKC) and the British Forces Broadcasting Service (BFBS) to "entertain and inform Britain's Armed Forces around the world", [3] its activities included the British Forces Broadcasting Service with its radio [4] and television [5] operations, SSVC Cinemas, [6] the British Defence Film Library, [7] and its live events arm, Combined Services Entertainment [8] (a successor to ENSA).
A new ten-year contract began on 1 April 2013 awarded by the Ministry of Defence. SSVC/BFBS will continue to provide services to the British armed forces in the UK and where deployed abroad. Its current Chief Executive Officer is Simon Bucks (born 1952; from Sky News). [9]
The operations of SSVC were changed on 2 March 2020 when it and most of the properties under its management were rebranded under the new BFBS and Forces brandings. [10] The official name of the entity was changed to BFBS on 23 July 2020. [1]