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  BBC World Service - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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.
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.
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.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/BBC_World_Service   (1770 words)

  
 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.
The interval signal of the BBC World Service in English is the sound of the Bow Bells[?] of London.
In many countries in the world the world service is relied on as the only source of reliable news not manipulated by the local government.
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/bb/BBC_World_Service.html   (373 words)

  
 BBC World Service Television - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
BBC World Service Television was the name given to the BBC's international satellite television channels between 1991 and 1995.
In Europe, it was the name of the BBC's subscription-funded entertainment service, which replaced BBC TV Europe in April 1991, while in Asia it was the name of the 24-hour news and information service, which launched in October, 1991.
In January, 1995, the news and information service was replaced by BBC World, and the subscription-funded entertainment service by BBC Prime.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/BBC_World_Service_Television   (144 words)

  
 Denis Boyles on BBC on National Review Online   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
First, a sense of scale: The World Service of the BBC is the planet's radio station, broadcasting around the clock in virtually every major language, from Arabic to Urdu, to some 150 million people — far more than listen to the Voice of America and CNN Radio combined.
While most BBC services are funded from the licensing fees charged to U.K. television and radio owners, the World Service is different: Its annual budget of nearly $370 million comes from a direct government grant funneled through the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, to whom it is indirectly responsible.
The World Service began April 6 by broadcasting to the citizens of Baghdad and the rest of the world the report that an Iraqi mullah had called for the faithful in Baghdad to engage in "holy war" against the Americans and the British who would soon be in their midst.
www.nationalreview.com /nr_comment/nr_comment072903.asp   (3171 words)

  
 Texas Public Radio BBC World Service   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
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.
The satellite television services were relaunched in 1995 within BBC Worldwide, the commercial arm of the BBC, but World Service has retained a presence in television output through the BBC World Service Television News which is broadcast on the 24-hour news and information channel BBC WORLD.
www.tpr.org /programs/bbc.html   (869 words)

  
 Save the BBC World Service in North America and the Pacific!
The BBC World Service continues to press its political masters for massive increases in funding to boost service in under-covered areas of the world.
Proving that their cluelessness with regard to their American audience is not limited to World Service radio, BBC America television has sparked off a protest by moving the venerable Eastenders program from the Sunday airing it's had since BBC America started to a time on Friday when most of its audience is still at work.
The BBC appears to be more interested in counting listeners than listenership; someone who stumbles across The World on their local public radio outlet counts just as much as someone who deliberately seeks out the BBC and listens for hours to their news, arts, and cultural programs.
www.savebbc.org   (1691 words)

  
 An Open Letter to the BBC World Service
I am writing in response to the recently announced decision of the BBC World Service to discontinue broadcast to the United States, Canada, and Australia on the shortwave bands as of July, 2001.
where he mentioned that as much as he loves listening to the BBC World Service, he is not going to cut down the tall trees that will prevent him from using the satellite system you seem to be so intent on relying on.
The BBC listener who listens to the World Service as a unified whole on shortwave is exceptionally valuable.
www.brandi.org /ralph/bbc_open_letter.html   (3534 words)

  
 WFYI Indianapolis - BBC World Service
For 70 years, BBC World Service has been the globe's most comprehensive source for news.
Listeners count on BBC to provide superior news and information programming because they know they can trust BBC World Service — the world's most respected news source.
Las Vegas, NV BCC World Service programming is produced in London by the BBC World Service and is distributed in the United States by Public Radio International.
www.wfyi.org /radioBBCWorldService.asp   (312 words)

  
 SIRIUS Satellite Radio - SIRIUS Satellite Radio - BBC World Service
BBC correspondents around the world share their unique insights and perceptions of the countries the report from.
News is central to all BBC language services.
The BBC is renowned for its accurate, up-to-the-minute reporting of events happening around the globe, and legendary for its depth of analysis and impartiality of perspective.
www.sirius.com /BBCWorldService   (311 words)

  
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Granted, BBC Radio 4's drama, readings and quirky features are unique and top class, and BBC Radios 5, 3, 2 and 1 are able to concentrate on their specialist fields, which is a luxury the World Service cannot afford; having to carry a breadth of programming.
It is 70 years of World Service broadcasts in English and 40 other languages that carries the overseas reputation of the BBC as being impartial, trustworthy, accurate and informative.
The canteen and BBC club bar in the basement is all the better for such multiculturalism, with a wide range of cuisine on offer and people wearing a range and variety of clothing that you don't often see on the comparatively drab London streets.
members.lycos.co.uk /chrisbrand1977/id26.htm   (4929 words)

  
 Guardian Unlimited | The Guardian | BBC's World Service
The BBC's survey of global attitudes to the United States is important evidence for anybody trying to explain why America both fascinates and infuriates the rest of the world.
According to the BBC's ICM poll, the world appears to be fracturing between an English-speaking one and a non-English-speaking one.
The message is clear: the world has less of a problem with America than it has with Mr Bush.
www.guardian.co.uk /leaders/story/0,3604,980222,00.html   (296 words)

  
 WCPE - BBC World Service News
In July of 1978, WCPE Radio pioneered the broadcasting of the BBC World Service News in the United States.
The old friends we had at the BBC are gone; one of our greatest proponents on the staff of the BBC died earlier this year.
The notice of revocation of permission to rebroadcast BBC as we have been was given to me on August 13th; it takes effect at the end of September, 2002.
theclassicalstation.org /bbc.shtml   (775 words)

  
 Stumpy Moose - Tales from Suburban Bohemia
Listening to BBC radio's domestic football coverage on Saturday afternoons, it always seemed to be the height of glamour to be one of those "listeners to the BBC World Service" that the commentator welcomed early in the second half.
The World Service began life as the Empire Service, and still has huge numbers of listeners in those parts of Asia and Africa where the map used to be pink.
The World Service is the face that the BBC - and, by extension, the UK - wears on its first date with the rest of the world, before it gets it upstairs and show it its Fame Academy.
www.stumpymoose.com /suburbanbohemia/archive.asp?ID=88   (822 words)

  
 Camera Works: Audio and Video (washingtonpost.com)
The BBC has the largest network of reporters and correspondents in the world, working to bring you unrivalled news coverage.
The World Service brings you breaking news, expert comment, analysis and debate round the clock.
BBC coverage of international events comes with a global perspective.
www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/mmedia/bbc/bbcworldservice.htm   (53 words)

  
 TIMEasia.com: Digital -- Tech Talk: Don't Kill the BBC World Service
Yes, the trusty BBC World Service is ceasing service in many of its international transmission regions.
My tip is that by this time next year, there'll be no more World Service to balance the nonsense and lies heard from, er, less independent broadcasters.
The BBC is spinning that it's moving with the times, and that the World Service is available as independent as ever via the Internet.
www.time.com /time/asia/digital/column/0,9754,131004,00.html   (697 words)

  
 BBC World Home Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
This month marks the Business Frontiers season for BBC World, with programmes focusing on the world’s business and finance news, inspiring tales of entrepreneurship, and a look at some of the world’s largest and most successful corporate companies.
Click delivers the latest on the hi-tech world - from computers and mobiles to gadgets: analysis of issues affecting and affected by new technology and interviews with the people at the forefront of technological developments.
BBC, BBC World and their respective logos are trade marks of the
www.bbcworld.com /content/template_home.asp?pageid=1   (126 words)

  
 The World: August 23, 2005   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
PRI's The World is a one-hour, weekday radio news magazine offering a mix of news, features, interviews, and music from around the globe.
The World's Aaron Schachter reports from the Israeli settlement of Homesh, where thousands of Israeli troops have been mobilized to evacuate the remaining resistors to the pullout of the West Bank settlements of Sanur and Homesh.
The World has been granted rare access to one of the two observation sites set up in the desert to see the total eclipse of the sun.
www.theworld.org /latesteditions/08/20050823.shtml   (486 words)

  
 XM Radio - BBC World Service
The BBC originated global broadcast news coverage and strictly adheres to the standards of unbiased reporting on which the World Service was founded.
The BBC World Service on XM delivers the BBC's renowned objectivity and global reach, bringing you news as it breaks from around the world and setting the international agenda with the American listener in mind.
For more world news coverage go to BBC World Service.
www.xmradio.com /programming/channel_page.jsp?ch=131   (147 words)

  
 OPB :: Program - BBC World Service   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
This 24-hour news service gives you access to the latest world news, expert analysis, commentary, features, and interviews on issues of the day.
Sudan and the largest Darfur rebel group sign a deal aiming to end three years of conflict, but smaller groupings reject it.
German police urge the courts not to allow any neo-Nazi marches near the World Cup venues.
www.opb.org /programs/program.php?id=44   (495 words)

  
 BBC World Service
Although the physical system is based on a server in London, the World Service Trust offers selected partners long-term licences to implement iLearn in specific geographical regions.
In order to retain BBC branding for their courses, the partners submit all locally produced material to the iLearn team in London for editorial approval.
The iLearn team works in close cooperation with the 43 language sections of the BBC World Service.
www.i-learn.co.uk /Partners   (303 words)

  
 BBC World Service News
World Service News is a public newsgathering and reporting organization based in Great Britain, a service of the British Broadcasting Corporation.
The focus is worldwide and covers many of the same news topics that commercial news services cover.
The BBC World Service Audio and Video provide streams that offer continuing broadcasts; and the Latest World News Bulletins of current news provide a short update of hot news topics, available in 43 languages.
www.clrn.org /weblinks/details.cfm?id=250   (110 words)

  
 BBC Monitoring
BBC Monitoring supplies news, information and comment gathered from the mass media around the world.
This extensive and growing range of sources enables us to provide distinctive, authoritative and reliable coverage of political and economic news.
BBC Monitoring has a range of products and services which can be tailored to suit individual needs.
www.monitor.bbc.co.uk   (116 words)

  
 www.worldservice.co.nz
The Auckland Radio Trust is proud to present to our World Service audience a weekly round-up of events in New Zealand from a Maori perspective.
The programme is a mix of reviews and interviews of books from New Zealand and around the world with a look at the local and international bestsellers as well as introducing new local authors.
In The Pacific Islands, The BBC World Service is broadcast on the following frequencies
www.worldservice.co.nz   (829 words)

  
 Index | Buddhism | BBC World Service
Most people live asleep, never knowing or seeing life as it really is. As a consequence they suffer.
A buddha is someone who awakens to the knowledge of the world as it truly is and so finds release from suffering.
An explanation of how Buddhism has challenged the cultures of the West, and revitalised the traditional Buddhist cultures.
bbc.co.uk /worldservice/people/features/world_religions/buddhism.shtml   (194 words)

  
 BBC World Service
The modules delivered meet the needs of the journalists and reinforce the principles and ethics of best practise in journalism.
During November 2005 the BBC World Service Trust signed a training agreement with leading Lebanese newspaper Assafir and delivered over 450 hours of training to selected Lebanese TV stations.
The BBC World Service Trust and Egyptian Radio and Television Union (ERTU) signed a training agreement in April 2005, as part of the Media Dialogue Programme.
www.bbcdialogue.co.uk   (191 words)

  
 Joho the Blog: BBC World Service goes RSS
This is way cool — a major news service (hey, we're talking The Beeb here!) distributing its news by letting us view it wherever and whenever we want.
I'm proud to say we at the BBC World service have launched RSS 1.0 (RDF) feeds to the public and automatic discovery of the rss feed is also in place.
We have yet to release any information to the press or news sites like Slashdot or boingboing yet because we have not created pages to help people who are unfamiliar with rss.
www.hyperorg.com /blogger/mtarchive/003377.html#comments   (434 words)

  
 Outlook - Monday | BBC World Service
China's World Frederick Dove is in Beijing for the whole of this week as part of the BBC World Service "China's World" Season.
Today he travels around the city in a taxi, talking to some of the people he met when Outlook visited Beijing last year.
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www.akcomics.com /arabic/media/BBCradio.htm   (607 words)

  
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 BBC World Service   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
In July, six journalists from the Middle East and North Africa came to the UK to participate in a Media Programme run by the BBC World Service Trust project team.
The participants from Lebanon, Egypt and Morocco were from television and newspaper media and were chosen for the programme through a formal selection process open to those meeting the criteria.
I shared the values of the BBC, a big reference.
www.bbcdialogue.co.uk /Media/May   (273 words)

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