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The BBC World Service began on 19 December 1932 as the BBC Empire Service, broadcasting on shortwave [25] and aimed principally at English speakers across the British Empire. In his first Christmas Message (1932), King George V characterised the service as intended for "men and women, so cut off by the snow, the desert, or the sea, that only ...
August – For the first time in its history the World service is taken off air due to strike action in protest at the British government's decision to ban a documentary featuring an interview with Martin McGuinness of Sinn Féin. 1986. No events. 1987. The BBC World Service launches BBC 648 from the Orfordness transmitting station. The service ...
The BBC World Service launches BBC 648 from the Orfordness transmitting station. The service provides a tailor-made service for northern Europe featuring some French and German programming programmes interwoven with the main output in English. [43] 28 April – BBC television programming in Hindi and Urdu ends after more than 20 years.
The World Today was an early morning news and current affairs radio programme on the BBC World Service, launched in 1999, and broadcast from 3:00 to 8:30 (GMT) daily as of 2011. It consisted of news bulletins on the hour and half-hour, serious international interviews and in-depth reports of world news.
The first episode of the show was broadcast on the BBC World Service on 6 April 2008. It has been broadcast every week since then. The Forum was founded by Emily Kasriel, who was the program's Executive Producer for the show's first four years and occasionally presented it, as well as painting illustrations for The Forum's website. [2] [3] [4]
This is the subject of some controversy in the Isle of Man since, as well as having no BBC Local Radio service, the island also lacks a local television news service analogous to that provided by BBC Channel Islands. [169] BBC World Service, with Jonathan Dimbleby (middle) broadcasting from Budapest, Hungary in 2016
16 January – BBC World Service Television was renamed as BBC World it was launched as an international free-to-air news channel on 26 January at 19:00 GMT. 27 February – European Business News (EBN) launches. The pan-European service is broadcast from London and features rolling coverage of UK business alongside business news from Europe. 1996
Newshour is BBC World Service's flagship international news and current affairs radio programme, which is broadcast twice daily: weekdays at 1400, weekends at 1300 and nightly at 2100 (UK time). There is also an additional online programme at 20:00 on weekdays.