BBC World Service News

BBC World Service News

  • Genre: talk, news
  • Country:England
  • City: London
  • Bitrate:128 kbit/s
  • First air date: 19 December 1932
  • Language: English
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The BBC World Service is an international broadcaster owned and operated by the BBC, with funding from the British Government through the Foreign Secretary's office. It is the world's largest external broadcaster in terms of reception area, language selection and audience reach. It broadcasts radio news, speech and discussions in more than 40 languages to many parts of the world on analogue and digital shortwave platforms, internet streaming, podcasting, satellite, DAB, FM and MW relays. In 2015, the World Service reached an average of 210 million people a week (via TV, radio and online). In November 2016, the BBC announced that it would start broadcasting in additional languages including Amharic and Igbo, in its biggest expansion since the 1940s.

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Address BBC World Service Audience Relations Zone C, 7th Floor Broadcasting House Portland Place London W1A 1AA
Phone (+44) 020 7240 3456
Email worldservice.letters@bbc.co.uk
Website https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/live:bbc_world_service
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