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BBC World Service Logo used since 2022 Type Radio broadcasting news, speech, discussions, public broadcaster Country United Kingdom Availability Worldwide Headquarters Broadcasting House, London Broadcast area Worldwide Owner BBC Key people Jonathan Munro Launch date 19 December 1932 ; 91 years ago (1932-12-19) Former names BBC Empire Service BBC Overseas Service External Services of the BBC ...
BBC News provides television journalism to BBC network bulletins (on BBC One and BBC Two) and programmes as well as the BBC News Channel available around the world and in the United Kingdom. BBC News runs BBC Radio 5 Live and BBC World Service as part of its rolling news coverage, journalists and presenters also contribute to podcasts produced ...
Commercially funded BBC Studios and BBC Global News, as well as state-funded BBC World Service operate and distribute these linear television services around the world. These services are not to be confused with the domestic channels operated in the United Kingdom and accessible in the Republic of Ireland.
London Calling (later renamed BBC Worldwide, then BBC On Air) is a former monthly magazine [1] that contained programme listings for the BBC World Service shortwave radio broadcasting service.
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 ...
Christa Ackroyd – main presenter on Look North from 2001 until 2013. She had previously been a presenter on Yorkshire Television's Calendar during the 1990s.; Kate Adie – chief news correspondent for BBC News during which time she became well known for reporting from war zones around the world – her first major assignment was reporting on the Iranian embassy siege in London in 1980.
BBC World Service Television, often abbreviated to WSTV (World Service Television), was the name of two BBC international satellite television channels between 1991 and 1995. It was the BBC's first foray into worldwide television broadcasting.
Newsday is BBC World Service's international hard news and current affairs programme. It acts as an afternoon programme for Asia, a breakfast broadcast in Europe and the UK and an overnight news programme for the Americas.