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	BBC Radio - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		BBC Radio is a service of the British Broadcasting Corporation which has operated in the United Kingdom under the terms of a Royal Charter since 1927.
		The BBC radio services began in 1922 with the British Broadcasting Company, Ltd., which was licensed under pressure to provide a radio service for the British public.
		BBC Radio 5 was launched on 27 August 1990 as a home for sport and children's programming, and was it later renamed BBC Radio Five Live when it became a dedicated news and sport network.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/BBC_Radio (1358 words)

	Kids.Net.Au - Encyclopedia > BBC World Service
		Unlike the BBC's main radio and television services, which are primarily funded by a licence fee, the World Service is funded by the British Government, although it remains politically neutral.
		Since the 1990s the World Service has also increasingly used satellite broadcasting as a means to deliver its signals to its overseas transmitters and to home dish owners in several countries.
		The interval signal of the BBC World Service in English is the sound of the Bow Bells[?] of London.
	www.kids.net.au /encyclopedia-wiki/bb/BBC_World_Service (398 words)

	BBC World Service - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The BBC World Service is one of the most widely recognised international broadcasters of radio programming, transmitting in 33 languages to many parts of the world.
		Examples of this are the coverage of the Suez Crisis in July 1956, its coverage of the Falklands War from April to June 1982, and its coverage of the handover of Britain's former colony of Hong Kong in 1997.
		This is the strategy that the BBC adopted successfully, to become a widely respected broadcaster in the Third World and during the Cold War amongst the former countries of the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/BBC_World_Service (2084 words)

	BBC World Service (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The BBC World Service is one of the most widely recognised international broadcasters of radio programming,transmitting in 43 languages to around 150 million people throughout the world.
		The english service broadcasts 24 hours a day.Unlike the BBC 's main radio and television services, which are primarily funded by a licencefee, the World Service is funded by the British Government,although it remains politically neutral.
		BBC shortwave programming began as the Empire Service on December 19, 1932, broadcastingparticularly to Australia.
	www.therfcc.org /bbc-world-service-108242.html (622 words)

	BBC Empire Service (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		An empire can be ruled by an emperor or an empress if it is a monarchy, or a dictator-president if it is a totalitarian regime.
		BBC production examines the 'why' of art: "'How Art Made the World' may sound like a grandiose title, but the five-part series makes some good arguments in support of that saucy assertion.
		Where in the Roman Empire, the wealthy elite were expected to provide civil service and public works, a large number of the warrior elite of the early and high Middle Ages simply used their power to brutalize and extort more wealth from those around them whether another noble, merchant, or peasant.
	www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-BBC_Empire_Service.html (1399 words)

	Texas Public Radio BBC World Service (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The BBC first broadcast programs for listeners overseas in December 1932, when the Empire Service, as it was then called, began transmitting from its recently acquired station in Daventry.
		At the outbreak of war, the BBC was broadcasting in 7 languages other than English; by the end of hostilities, the BBC had 45 separate language services and a General Overseas Service (formerly the Empire Service) broadcasting in English for 24 hours a day.
		Without independent news of their own, people listened to the BBC to hear what they believed would be the truth and to hear exiled leaders such as General de Gaulle urging them to resist the occupying forces.
	www.tpr.org /programs/bbc.html (869 words)

	BBC - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		BBC World Service, international radio division of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC).
		Historically, broadcasting in Britain has been treated as a public service responsible to the people through Parliament.
		- U.K. radio and TV service: in the United Kingdom, the publicly funded organization that provides radio and television services.
	ca.encarta.msn.com /BBC.html (78 words)

	Wikinfo \| British Broadcasting Corporation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Although the BBC is nominally independent from the government, it is run by a Board of Governors, comprising 12 governors, who are appointed by the government.
		The reputation of the BBC remained high with the British public, even after the report criticized some of its processes over coverage of statements made to Gilligan by scientist and former UN arms inspector David Kelly concerning claims made in Prime Minister Tony Blair's government dossier on Weapons of Mass Destruction in Iraq.
		Despite criticising failures of the BBC's editorial policy, management, the Director-General and the Governors, the report was branded a Whitewash by some for failing to address the issue of the validity of claims made by the government within the dossier.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=BBC (4069 words)

	Digital age pulls plug on BBC shortwave (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The service is being discontinued on June 30.
		BBC officials say the Internet and digital satellite radio, where the World Service will still be available, are making shortwave obsolete in developed markets like the United States.
		As the BBC expands into new media and updates its shortwave transmitters in developing countries, the cancellation of shortwave in some regions was a tough but necessary business decision, says Jerry Timmins, head of the World Service's Americas region.
	www.usatoday.com /tech/news/2001-06-22-bbc-shortwave.htm (913 words)

	First World Service Broadcast: The Times Report - Sidebar - MSN Encarta
		The first broadcast of the BBC Empire Service—the predecessor to today’s BBC World Service—was reported in The Times on December 20, 1932.
		Although the idea of an Empire Service had first been floated in 1924, the service had not come into being due to problems of technology and funding.
		However, by 1932 the establishment of short-wave transmitters at Daventry, Northampton, enabled a broadcast to the entire empire.
	uk.encarta.msn.com /sidebar_1461500764/First_World_Service_Broadcast_The_Times_Report.html (139 words)

	Bbc Burmese Service
		This was not propaganda, insists Caroline Thomson: `Right from the beginning, the Empire Service had an absolute tradition, that while it was communicating with the Empire, this was done separately from the government.
		Forty foreign language services also exist, ranging from the Arabic service which operates twelve hours a day, to the Albanian service which broadcasts for a mere hour and a quarter out of every 24.
		World Service is responsible for the BBC's monitoring operations at Caversham in Berkshire, where hundreds of radio and television transmissions from around the globe are recorded and analyzed.
	www.the-cat-zone.com /Baby-Cats/Bbc-Burmese-Service.htm (1798 words)

	BBC World Service - Voyager, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Unlike the BBC's main radio and television services, which are primarily funded by a licence fee, the World Service is funded by the British Government through the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, although it is expected to remain politically neutral.
		The World Service's output has recently been made more widely available in the UK — the service is now carried on DAB, Freeview and Sky Digital, as well as being available on 648MW in the south of the UK.
		The interval signal of the BBC World Service in English is the Bow Bells, a recording made in 1926 (though only in use from the early 1940s), though this isn't used on all frequencies - some are silent until the start of broadcasts.
	www.voyager.in /BBC_World_Service (1144 words)

	BBC World Service
		Das Kurzwellenprogramm wurde unter dem Namen BBC Empire Service seit dem 19.
		Der BBC World Service ist in Europa über einen Mittelwellensender auf der Frequenz 648 kHz zu empfangen, der in Droitwich Spa stationiert ist.
		In vielen Ländern der Welt ist der BBC World Service das einzige Nachrichtenmedium, dem die Bevölkerung eine ehrliche und korrekte Berichterstattung zutraut, die nicht von der jeweiligen Regierung manipuliert oder kontrolliert wird.
	www.all2know.com /de/wikipedia/b/bb/bbc_world_service.html (709 words)

	BBC World Service
		BBC shortwave programming began as the Empire Service on December 19, 1932, broadcasting particularly to Australia.
		Some PBS stations in the US carry daily half hour programs from BBC World Service.
		Its signature tune, "Lilliburlero", is broadcast just before the top of most hours, preceded by the announcement "This is London" and followed by a time signal (five short and one long pips) and the hourly news.
	www.teachersparadise.com /ency/en/wikipedia/b/bb/bbc_world_service.html (469 words)

	Bambooweb: BBC Empire Service
		The World Service uses a mediumwave transmitter at Droitwich to provide coverage to Europe, including on the frequency 648 kHz (which can be heard in the UK).
		Its signature tune Lilliburlero is broadcast just before the top of most hours, preceded by the announcement "This is London" and followed by the Greenwich Time Signal (five short and one long pips) and the hourly news.
		The World Service's output has recently been made more widely available in the UK - the service is now carried on DAB, Freeview and Sky Digital.
	www.bambooweb.com /articles/b/b/BBC_Empire_Service.html (635 words)

	Save the BBC World Service in North America and the Pacific! - Ten Talking Points
		BBC audience research fails to differentiate between new listeners via AM/FM partnerships, who have been exposed only to brief news bulletins, and new and long-term listeners, who have experienced the full range of World Service programs via shortwave.
		Where World Service is available to AM and FM radio listeners, in the main, this is for only very short periods during the day or during overnights when most listeners are asleep.
		Sirius and XM Radio, the direct digital satellite services cited by the BBC due to become available later this year, have already had their start-up dates delayed several times and their future is far from secure.
	savebbc.org /talkingpoints.html (993 words)

	bbc world service - Icons of England (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		From its beginnings as the BBC Empire Service, transmitting on shortwave in 1932, the World Service (so named since 1988) has become an international multimedia network respected and relied on across the planet.
		the world service is surely one of the most widely recognised symbols of this country all over the world.
		Surely the term "World Service" predates 1988 -- I was listening to the BBC World Service on shorwave back in the mid-60s, and had the impression then that it was hardly something new.
	www.icons.org.uk /nom/nominations/the-world-service?sortcriterion=alphabeticalTitle&order=ascending (265 words)

	The Europe-In-America Project: Media Report
		The World Service is accessible and free to virtually everyone in the New York metro area.5 Because of this, the issue is not, like with Agence France Presse, whether or not it is accessible to consumers, but whether or not the BBC is successfully selling its news programs in the U.S. market.
		While the BBC appears to be successful at reaching opinion leaders and metro elites in the U.S., it has yet to establish a firm grip on the American broadcast news market, like it does in other large national markets, such as India.
		Josh Weinberg from BBC America, however, notes that the U.S. is also the most expensive and competitive market in the world, and the BBC is forced to compete with companies in all corners and mediums, and not just radio.
	www.depts.drew.edu /psci/europe/media.htm (2844 words)

	Jury Service - Search Results - ninemsn Encarta (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Jury Service, requirement placed on citizens to serve on a jury when called upon to do so.
		Conscription, national service, prison labour, emergencies, and “normal civic obligations” (such as...
		- service as juror: service as a member of a jury in a court of law.
	au.encarta.msn.com /Jury_Service.html (116 words)

	Empire Service - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Empire Service (transport) - a train service in New York State
		Empire Service (broadcasting) - a radio service, the forerunner to the BBC World Service.
		This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the same title.
	www.airandspace.org /encyclopedia/Empire_Service (99 words)

	Arabic TV channel launched in World Service shake-up Evening Standard (London) - Find Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		World Service staff were being told of the relaunch in a presentation by BBC bosses at lunchtime.
		Others say the BBC is misguided to be attempting a news service for a region already strongly served by networks such as Al-Jazeera and Al-Arabiya.
		The BBC World Service, based in London, is listened to by 149 million people in 43 countries each week.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qn4153/is_20051025/ai_n15716712 (379 words)

	Save the BBC World Service in North America and the Pacific! - Toronto Star article 1 July 2001
		As of today, the BBC on short-wave - "one of the marvels of modern science," according to King George V in 1932 - is being scrapped in North America and the Pacific Rim because of a newer marvel of modern science, the Internet.
		The collapse of BBC short-wave in Canada can mean the end of an RCI-BBC deal seeing each service using the other's transmitters.
		In the 1920s, the sun may have been setting on the British Empire, but not on BBC's desire for an "Empire Service," even if short-wave broadcasting was still in the experimental stage.
	savebbc.org /toronto_star_1_july.html (706 words)

	BBC World Service - Art History Online Reference and Guide
		Besides English, the BBC World Service broadcasts in Albanian, Arabic, Azeri, Bengali, Bulgarian, Burmese, Caribbean-English, Cantonese, Croatian, Czech, French, Greek, Hausa, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Kazakh, Kinyarwanda/Kirundi, Kyrgyz, Macedonian, Mandarin, Nepali, Pashto, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Sinhala, Slovak, Slovene, Somali, Spanish, Swahili, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uzbek, and Vietnamese.
		Because shortwave transmissions were not meeting BBC quality standards, transmissions directed to North America came to an end on July 1 2001.
		The interval signal of the BBC World Service in English is the sound of the quarter-hour chimes of the Clock Tower of the Palace of Westminster (Big Ben).
	www.arthistoryclub.com /art_history/BBC_World_Service (936 words)

	brandchannel.com \| BBC brand \| brands \| brand \| branding news
		BBC radio first launched in the 1920s as a commercial station but was granted its first Royal Charter (and began collecting licensing fees) in 1927.
		Home Service was hailed as a first rate news source both at home and abroad, proving especially valuable to many who followed in occupied countries and contentious to the Germans who scrambled the service at any opportunity.
		BBC programs were also successfully exported, bringing an internationally recognized reputation to the British for their sense of humor and attention to serious, unbiased reportage.
	www.brandchannel.com /features_profile.asp?pr_id=35 (2077 words)

	the BBC: Overview
		Its Home Service (initially the National Programme) and World Service (inaugurated as the Empire Service in 1932 and later rebadged as the General Overseas Service) networks were supplemented from the late 1940s by the Light Programme and the Third Programme.
		BBC Broadcast provided promotion, playout and publication services for the BBC across multiple platforms that included television and mobile phones.
		The BBC At War 1939-45 (London: BBC 1996) should be read in conjunction with Sian Nicholas' The Echo Of War: Home Front Propaganda and The Wartime BBC (New York: St Martins 1996) and Gary Rawnsley's Radio Diplomacy and Propaganda: The BBC and VOA in International Politics 1956-64 (New York: St Martins 1996).
	www.ketupa.net /bbc.htm (1409 words)

	"This is London"-side 1-
		The first short-wave broadcast transmitted by the BBC to the vast British Empire - the BBC's Empire Service.
		Alan Burgess, a former BBC producer, has written the script, and with the actor Leo McKern as narrator, he tells the fascinating story of how from that modest beginning has grown one of the most influential and respected short-wave broadcast organisations in the world with a listening figure estimated at 100 million people every week.
		Today the BBC's World Service in English broadcasts 24 hours a day and, at almost any time, there are news bulletins going out in one or another of the 36 different language units in Bush House.
	www.angelfire.com /my/radiohobby/bbc50a.html (934 words)

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