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BBC General Overseas Service

BBC World Service
Type Radio network broadcasting news, speech, discussions
Country United Kingdom
Availability Worldwide
Slogan The World's Radio Station, The BBC's international radio station
Headquarters Broadcasting House, London
Broadcast area
Worldwide
Owner BBC
Key people
Fran Unsworth (Director)
Launch date
19 December 1932 (1932-12-19)
Former names
BBC Empire Service
BBC Overseas Service
External Services of the BBC
Webcast

Internet Schedule Live Streaming

English News Live Streaming

Africa Live Streaming

Official website
bbc.com/worldserviceradio

Internet Schedule Live Streaming

English News Live Streaming

Africa Live Streaming

The BBC World Service is the world's largest international broadcaster, broadcasting radio and television news, speech and discussions in 29 languages to many parts of the world on analogue, and digital shortwave platforms, Internet streaming, podcasting, satellite, FM and MW relays. The BBC announced in November 2016 that It would start broadcasting in additional languages including Igbo, Nigerian Pidgin, Yoruba and Amharic, in its biggest expansion since the 1940s. In 2015 World Service reached an average of 210 million people a week (TV, radio and online). The English-language service broadcasts 24 hours a day.

The World Service is funded by the United Kingdom's television licence fee, limited advertising and the profits of BBC Worldwide Ltd. The service also gets £289 million each year (agreed up to 2020) from the UK government. The World Service was funded for decades by grant-in-aid through the Foreign and Commonwealth Office of the British Government until 1 April 2014.

The Director of the BBC World Service Group is Francesca Unsworth. The controller of BBC World Service, English, is Mary Hockaday.


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