Abbreviations: Arts & Entertainment

This page covers abbreviations and acronyms for things that are (more or less closely) associated with the fields of arts and entertainment.

2B (pencils)		Double Black
A&R		Artists & Repertoire
AIR		All–India Radio
BAFTA		British Academy of Film and Television Arts
BLAISE		British Library Automated Information Service
CNN		Cable News Network
DC (Comics)		Detective Comics (Comics)
EBU		European Broadcasting Union
EDM		Electronic Dance Music
EGOT		Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, Tony
ENO		English National Opera
ER		Emergency Room (American medical drama television series, 1994–2009)
HB (pencils)		Hard Black
HBO		Home Box Office
HMSO		Her (His) Majesty's Stationery Office
IMDb		Internet Movie Database
ISBN		International Standard Book Number
ITMA		It's That Man Again
JLS		Jack the Lad Swing
KITT		Knight Industries Two Thousand (name of the car in Knight Rider)
M*A*S*H		Mobile Army Surgical Hospital
MJQ		Modern Jazz Quartet
MOBO		Music Of Black Origin
MOMI		Museum Of the Moving Image
NFT		National Film Theatre
NME		New Musical Express
OAE		Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
OED		Oxford English Dictionary
Op art		Optical art
PLR		Public Lending Right (royalties for books lent from public libraries)
QVC		Quality, Value and Convenience
R&B		Rhythm & Blues
RADA		Royal Academy of Dramatic Art
TARDIS		Time And Relative Dimensions In Space
TISWAS		Today Is Saturday, Watch And Smile
UNCLE		United Network Command for Law Enforcement
WRAP (It's a ...)		Wind, Reel And Print

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