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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 ...
London. BBC Radio 1 (1967–1996) Connected to adjacent Broadcasting House through a subway, and as a result often thought of as part of Broadcasting House. Demolished in 2003 to make way for the new Egton Wing of Broadcasting House. Yalding House [ 32 ] London. BBC Radio 1 (1996–2013) BBC Radio 1Xtra.
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.
The Ascension Island relay station began broadcasting on July 3, 1966, in order to provide BBC World Service broadcasts to West and Central Africa and South America. Ascension Island was chosen because of its location. [2] Historically Ascension Island has been used as a strategic location for shipping and later communications.
Broadcasting House is the headquarters of the BBC, in Portland Place and Langham Place, London. The first radio broadcast from the building was made on 15 March 1932, and the building was officially opened two months later, on 15 May. The main building is in Art Deco style, with a facing of Portland stone over a steel frame.
Woofferton. 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 Ludlow, Shropshire, England.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 2 September 2024. English-language pay television channel This article is about the English-language audio-visual international news and current affairs operations of the BBC. For the BBC's corporate division administering it, as well as the audio-only branding of the same, see BBC World Service. This ...
BBC. The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster headquartered at Broadcasting House in London, England. Originally established in 1922 as the British Broadcasting Company, it evolved into its current state with its current name on New Year's Day 1927.