Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC); orig. used by independent TV companies, but now in general use.

1952		Dly Herald (London) 18 Nov. 4/7: Aunty BBC, with her alarming overheads and her prim turn of mind, cannot and will not.
1961		Time & Tide 42 1824: It would hear Auntie BBC speak with a new and younger voice [...] a voice which drops its h’s and says ‘bloody’.
1972		Times 16 Nov. 11: Vintage Years is essentially a delightful collage of anecdotes recounted by two men who were working for Auntie when so many of the fabled BBC events occurred.
1984		‘Derek Raymond’ He Died with His Eyes Open 80: The work he was doing for us showed him his own talent. But there’s no room for that kind of thing at Auntie’s.
2002		Indep. 18 Feb. 9: It seems his [Homer Simpson] family is now too lordly to accommodate poor old Auntie. The BBC has decided to withdraw from the bidding.
2004		M. Heatley John Peel 21: Good old ‘Auntie’ BBC.
2013		Guardian 26 Oct. 29/1: The select committee [...] trawled through all the tabloid allegations against Auntie [...] It seems there is nothing the Beeb can get right.

2. (Aus.) the Australian Broadcasting Commission (ABC).

1968		Canberra Times (ACT) 24 Feb. 12/3: Next, Auntie ABC gave the ‘Girl From UNCLE’ with a female James Bond .
1976		Tharunka (Kensington, NSW) 22 Sept. 7/4: If you are one of those exciting people who avidly follow [...] ‘Power Without Glory’ on Aunty ABC, then the following list may be of some interest.
1985		Canberra Times (ACT) 2 Nov. 5/1: [headline] National Auntie farewells her black sheep. The ABC announced yesterday [etc].
1998		R.G. Barrett Mud Crab Boogie (2013) [ebook] ‘I’m down here with an ABC news team [...] I’ve been with Aunty about five years now’.
2002		K. Inglis 13 Nov. Aunty at Seventy: A Health Report on the ABC [lecture title] [...] The legislation of 1983 left the old ABC pretty much intact: the same Aunty, with less than a change of life, no more than a face lift.