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Operation. The BBC World Service is located in Broadcasting House, London. The Service broadcasts from Broadcasting House in London, which is also headquarters of the corporation. It is located in the newer parts of the building, which contains radio and television studios for use by the overseas language services.
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.
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 ...
Woofferton. / 52.309778; -2.720444. The Woofferton transmitting station is owned and operated by Encompass Digital Media, as one of the BBC's assets which were handed over as part of the privatization of World Service distribution and transmission in 1997. It is the last remaining UK shortwave broadcasting site, located at Woofferton, south of ...
BBC Radio 1Xtra: Black music, hip hop, R&B and dancehall. No BBC Radio 1 Dance: Classic, current and future electronic dance music, with mixes and archives. No BBC Radio 2: Adult-orientated music, country, jazz, soul and funk. Yes Yes BBC Radio 3: Classical music, jazz, world music, arts, culture and drama. BBC Radio 4
November – The Empire Service is renamed the BBC Overseas Service. 1939. 14 May – Afrikaans language programming begins. 4 June – Portuguese for Africa programming begins. 5 September – Hungarian language programming begins. 7 September – Following the outbreak of World War II, the BBC launches its BBC Polish Section.
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. It premiered on 23 July 2012. [ 2] It replaced The World Today and Network Africa, the programme that had a particular ...
World Book Club is a radio programme on the BBC World Service. Each edition of the programme, which is broadcast on the first Saturday of the month with repeats into the following Monday, [1] features a famous author discussing one of his or her books, often the most well-known one, with the public. Since the programme began in 2002 it has been ...