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  BBC World Service - Wikipedia
Der BBC World Service ist einer der angesehensten internationalen Hörfunksender.
Der BBC World Service ist in Europa über einen Mittelwellensender auf der Frequenz 648 kHz zu empfangen, der in Droitwich 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.
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 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 43 languages to around 150 million people throughout the world.
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 remains politically neutral.
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   (971 words)

  
 BBC World - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
It was formerly known as BBC World Service Television, although unlike BBC World Service radio it was (and is) commercially funded, as the British government refused to extend the Foreign Office grant-in-aid.
BBC World is widely carried on satellite and cable (however, it is less common in the United States), and its bulletins are also rebroadcast on many local terrestrial channels.
BBC World is based in the BBC's new Broadcast Centre and takes News feeds from BBC Television Centre both of which are in west London.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/BBC_World   (797 words)

  
 BBC - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
BBC News claims to be the largest broadcast news gathering operation in the world, providing news through BBC network television and radio as well as BBC News 24, BBC Parliament, BBC World, BBCi and Ceefax.
The website allows the BBC to produce sections which complement the various programmes on television and radio, and it is common for viewers and listeners to be told website addresses for the bbc.co.uk sections relating to that programme.
In March 2003 the BBC announced that from the end of May 2003 (subsequently deferred to July 14) it intended to transmit all eight of its domestic television channels (including the 15 regional variations of BBC One) unencrypted from the Astra 2D satellite.
encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /bbc.htm   (2685 words)

  
 BBC World Service - Wikipedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
News and other programming from the BBC World Service is frequently relayed by local stations around the world, and it is regarded as the world's premier radio news source.
Currently the BBC World Service broadcasts in 43 languages world wide, though budget cuts in 2001 led to a decision to cancel English-language broadcasting directly to North America.
The interval signal of the BBC World Service in English is the sound of the Bow Bells[?] of London.
www.mvlife.com /mv/mvlife_wiki/bb/BBC_World_Service.html   (373 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.
BBC shortwave programming began as the Empire Service on December 19, 1932, broadcasting particularly to Australia.
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).
www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/b/bb/bbc_world_service.html   (686 words)

  
 BBC World
The service was unable to get funding from the government, who fund the radio version with grant-in-aid, so the BBC chose to make the service cable advertising-based.
The BBC reserved the entertainment and soaps for sale to European stations to be shown subtitled or dubbed, before launching an encrypted service called BBC Prime which carries the programmes in English for UK ex-pats.
Although the BBC have used this system since it was first developed in order to help the regions keep time and to co-ordinate input between different departments, the use has been a lot less than ITV necessarily had to make of it for coordinating a large and independent federal structure.
www.transdiffusion.org /intertel/gallery/bbcworld   (483 words)

  
 Denis Boyles on BBC on National Review Online   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
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   (3169 words)

  
 Texas Public Radio BBC World Service   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
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)

  
 TV ARK - BBC World   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
It became BBC World in 1995 when the BBC split it's International Television service into BBC Prime (General Entertainment) and BBC World (News and Current Affairs).
BBC World Service News - with Jullian Marshall.
The World News from the BBC as seen on BBC World Service Television in 1992.
www.tv-ark.org.uk /otherchannels/bbcworlda.html   (196 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)

  
 Bbc World Service   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Correspondent was broadcast on Saturday, 6 August, 2005 at 1130 BST on BBC Radio 4.
The Biggest Desert In Europe can be heard on BBC World Service at 0805GMT/0905BST on Wednesday, 3 August, 2005, and is available from that time online or as a...
All this week, the BBC World Service's World Today programme has been talking to women in jobs traditionally associated with men.
www.wikiverse.org /bbc-world-service   (773 words)

  
 BBC World Service
Der World Service ist in Europa einen Mittelwellensender auf der Frequenz 648 kHz zu empfangen der in stationiert ist.
Seit den 1990ern verwendet der World Service außerdem zunehmend als Übertragungsmittel zu seinen Übersee-Stationen und zu Satellitenschüsselbesitzern in vielen Ländern.
In vielen der Welt ist der BBC World Service einzige Nachrichtenmedium dem die Bevölkerung eine ehrliche korrekte Berichterstattung zutraut die nicht von der Regierung manipuliert oder kontrolliert wird.
www.uni-protokolle.de /Lexikon/BBC_World_Service.html   (634 words)

  
 BBC World Service Television provides news and information from around the region and the world   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
BBC World is the BBC's commercially funded international 24-hour news and information channel broadcasting around the world from its base at BBC Television Centre in London.
BBC World keeps its viewers not just informed, but well informed, with in-depth analysis and cutting edge interviews - the story from all sides.
BBC World also produces a special half hour of international news and in depth analysis called BBC FOUR NEWS which can be seen in the UK on BBC FOUR and outside the UK on BBC WORLD.
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 AIDS Media Center: Partners: BBC World Service Trust
The BBC World Service Trust was set up in 1999 as an independent charity within the BBC World Service.
The Health Unit of the World Service Trust works in partnership with local broadcasters throughout the developing world to promote public health and to prevent illness and disease.
A combination of television, radio, print and community media materials may be used, and all campaigns are based upon rigorous qualitative and quantitative research.
www.aidsmedia.org /content/partners/detail/743   (229 words)

  
 World Service   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Television remains the dominant media in Romania, according to a report commissioned by BBC World Service.
Ian Richardson is a former senior journalist and manager with BBC World Service radio and television.
BBC World is an integral part of the BBC's commitment to global broadcasting...
worldservice.serviceinfozone.info /Bbc-World-Service-Television.html   (595 words)

  
 Open Directory - Arts: Radio: International Broadcasters   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Adventist World Radio - The international radio broadcast service of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, devoted to spreading the Gospel world-wide.
BBC World Service - Offers programming in 43 languages to all world regions.
HCJB World Radio - The Voice of The Andes - An evangelical, interdenominational faith mission involved primarily in radio broadcasting of the gospel in over 100 languages.
www.dmoz.org /Arts/Radio/International_Broadcasters   (1741 words)

  
 BBC World Home Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
BBC World, under the original name of BBC World Service Television, was set up in 1991 to serve Asia and the Middle East.
March 2004 BBC World is awarded The Zayed International Prize for the Environment in recognition of its commitment to global environmental issues
Now owned and operated by BBC World Ltd, the channel continues to be funded by advertising and subscription.
www.bbcworld.com /content/template_clickpage.asp?pageid=140   (369 words)

  
 House of Commons Hansard Written Answers for 13 Dec 1999 (pt 11)
I have no present plans to meet the Chairman of the BBC to discuss BBC World, as it is a long standing principle that the Government do not intervene in the BBC's programming and editorial issues.
We are currently considering the recommendations of the independent review panel on the future funding of the BBC in the light of the responses to the public consultation and will take the National Assembly for Wales' resolution into account as part of that process.
Pannell Kerr Forster are carrying out a tightly focused but detailed study of the BBC's finances to give us the information we need to reach a decision on the appropriate level of funding for the BBC up to 2006.
www.parliament.the-stationery-office.co.uk /pa/cm199900/cmhansrd/vo991213/text/91213w11.htm   (1201 words)

  
 MichNews.Net Business : Transportation and Logistics : Forwarding, NVOCC and Customs   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Offering world wide freight forwarding services, specialized in sea freight and railway transport between Bulgaria, the Black Sea region and CIS countries.
MW Freight Services Ltd - Motorsport Freight Forwarding Specialists, takes care of all air or ocean arrangements, customs documentation, land transport and delivery trackside inclusive of loading and unloading.
Once upon a time, when television was merely an experiment and the Internet a science fiction story, people saw the world through their ears.
www.michnews.net /directory.asp?c=/Business/Transportation_and_Logistics/Forwarding,_NVOCC_and_Customs   (3006 words)

  
 Bbc World News - Typhoon.co.uk   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
BBCWorld Service The1988 when I left the BBC, the Overseas Services Up to that time World Service was exclusive The three notes are BBC in the tonic scale.
BBC Two's Around the World in 80 treasures heads to Ethiopia
People who searched for 'bbc world' also tried: advice online, health life, advice online, policy primary, planning qca.
www.typhoon.co.uk /directory/136779_bbc.html   (719 words)

  
 World Service   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
BBC World Service schedules from DigiGuide are available by clicking on the BBC logo.
BBC World Service News Through the end of September WCPE will continue to offer, live from London, BBC News 10 times a day.
BBC World Service Bush House London United Kingdom.
worldservice.serviceinfozone.info /Bbc-World-Service-Shortwave.html   (336 words)

  
 BBC World Service goes on FM in Iraq - Directory - Media UK
BBC World Service goes on FM in Iraq
The BBC World Service is now available on FM in Baghdad and Basra.
Digital Spy is Britain's largest source for news and views about broadcast television.
www.mediauk.com /article/2178   (60 words)

  
 ResourceShelf   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
The legislation reauthorizes the Museum and Library Services Act to the year 2009; increases the base amount of the formula distribution to states in LSTA, sets the authorization level for library programs for FY 2004 at $232 million, and creates an evaluation process.
They are critical components of the worldwide economy and political life, and the IC Industry as a whole is a leading indicator for the general economy, growing for four consecutive quarters with a forecasted 8.5 percent growth rate for 2003.
At present, a total of 68 properties from 33 countries are inscribed on the Memory of the World Register, which was established in 1997 to preserve and promote documentary heritage of universal value.
www.resourceshelf.com /archives/2003_09_01_resourceshelf_archive.html/2002_01_01_resourceshelf_archive.html   (9356 words)

  
 Steve Nallon Website
Steve is one of Britain’s most versatile and prolific writers and performers working in all aspects of the media from film and television to radio and theatre.
Throughout the eighties, Steve’s definitive impression of Margaret Thatcher was a regular part of television viewing on such shows as The New Statesman and Live at the Palladium.
Steve is a member of BAFTA (British Academy of Film and Television Arts), the RTS (Royal Television Society), Equity and the Writers’ Guild.
www.nallon.com /cvperson.html   (2646 words)

  
 ABC News Online - Home
The best analysis of politics, insight into the issues that affect you locally, and colourful stories about people and places in your state.
News and Current Affairs from around the world.
the BBC World Service which is copyright and cannot be reproduced.
www.abc.net.au /news   (415 words)

  
 BBC Worldwide
Millions of people around the world experience the BBC through BBC Worldwide’s products and activities.
BBC Worldwide's businesses include international programming distribution, TV channels, magazines, books, videos, spoken word, music, DVDs, licensed product, CD-ROMs, English-language teaching, videos for education and training, interactive telephony, co-production, library footage sales, magazine subscription fulfilment, exhibitions and live events.
BBC Shop / BBC America Shop / BBC Canada Shop / bbc.co.uk
www.bbcworldwide.com   (66 words)

  
 Turnaround Publisher Services Ltd. : Homepage   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Turnaround Publisher Services are the sales agents and distributors for some of the most innovative and successful publishers and imprints in the UK and US today.
Search this page to find out more about our forthcoming highlights, review coverage, best-sellers and events, or use the navigation bar on the left to find out more about who we are and what we can do for you.
- The author, Mitzi Szereto, was interviewed by Tony Wadsworth on BBC Radio Leicester on Thursday 9 June.
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 BBC - bbc.co.uk homepage - Home of the BBC on the Internet
BBC - bbc.co.uk homepage - Home of the BBC on the Internet
Neil Oliver and the team explore the western shores of Scotland as their UK seaside tour continues.
The BBC is not responsible for the content of external internet sites
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