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Showing posts with label BBC World service. Show all posts
Showing posts with label BBC World service. Show all posts
Wednesday, February 04, 2026

BBC World Service launches temporary emergency radio service for Iran

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  The BBC World Service has introduced a short-term emergency radio program aimed at audiences inside Iran, responding to continued unrest i...
Saturday, June 21, 2025

YouTube videos of BBCWS Midwinter Antarctica Special

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Antarctic Midwinter Broadcast 2025  celebration - 70th Anniversary Edition, June 21, 2025 Programming for British Survey (BAS) staff station...
Monday, October 14, 2024

BBC boss warns of Russian and Chinese propaganda

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  The UK is struggling to counter a rise in "pure propaganda" from countries like Russia and China because of cuts to the World Se...
Thursday, August 15, 2024

BBC programming update

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  The BBC World Service "six-month" schedules now seem to have been deleted permanently from the BBCWS website.  In May I therefor...
Friday, November 03, 2023

BBC World Service announces Emergency Service for Gaza

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  Recording of sign-on today at 1500 bUTC by Andrew Pitt on a Cyprus SDR reposted with comments by Chris Greenway. https://twitter.com/Chris...
Thursday, May 04, 2023

BBC World Service launches service to Sudan

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  Crisis Radio Alert: BBC World Service launches emergency pop-up radio service for Sudan on shortwave: 0700 UTC 21510 kHz and 1500 UTC 1531...
Tuesday, March 14, 2023

New funding to protect BBC World Service language services

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  Press Release The government awarded the BBC World Service £20 million to support language services and English-language broadcasting, as...
Thursday, January 26, 2023

BBC's Arabic Service bids farewell to the world after 85 years of broadcasting

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  Story at Kuwait News Agency (KUNA) https://www.kuna.net.kw/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=3078840&language=en# BBC Arabic: From the "Huna...
Thursday, December 08, 2022

BBC preparing to go online-only over next decade, says director general

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  Tim Davie outlines vision for a world of ‘infinite choice’ where broadcast TV and radio are being switched off The BBC is preparing to shu...
Saturday, November 19, 2022

BBCWS schedules for FIFA World Cup

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  World Service English provides coverage of the FIFA World Cup for listeners in Africa from the opening match, 20 November to the final, 18...
Thursday, September 29, 2022

BBC to Cut 10 Language Services

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  The BBC has announced deep cuts to its World Service output that will result in the loss of hundreds of jobs, saying it has been forced to...

late Breaking News: BBC World Service announces language cuts

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  Major cuts to BBC World Service were announced this morning (29 Sept 2022). The details are very extensive, but one headline is that 10 BB...
Monday, September 26, 2022

Shortwave schedule updates

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  All times UTC New schedule of BBC in Farsi  Effective: 22 September 2022  Farsi 0330-0430 on 11870 DHA 250 kW  0330-0430 on 12015 SCB 100 ...
Tuesday, December 21, 2021

BBC World Service Christmas Eve programming

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  BBC World Service will present the Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols . programming is based around nine Bible readings, which tell the ...
Monday, July 12, 2021

Cuba sees the largest protest in decades

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  Castro and the Cuban Revolution (wikipedia) Follow live the second day of the popular uprising in Cuba and its international repercussions...
Thursday, December 31, 2020

BBC and FEBA Radio schedule updates

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  All times UTC Updates of BBC and FEBA Radio BBC 1800-1830 9540 SCB 050 kW / 195 deg to CeAf French, (ex 6180) from December 25 1400-1430 1...
Wednesday, September 16, 2020

BBC World service frequency update

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  In the coming days, BBC World Service, will adjust the following frequencies: English to Asia frequency changes  All times UTC 0000-0100 5...
Thursday, June 18, 2020

BBC World Service annual mid-winter Antarctica broadcast set for June 21

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Music requests and special messages for the staff at the British Antarctic Survey Listen to the Antarctic Midwinter Broadcast This i...
Wednesday, March 18, 2020

BBC could scale back output if hit by coronavirus

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BBC director general Tony Hall has told MPs there's a chance that part of its services could be "out of action" for a spel...
Thursday, January 02, 2020

Frequency updates

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All times UTC New Zealand Radio New Zealand Pacific Sun-Fri DRM: 1651-1750 on  5975 RAN 035 kW / 035 deg to Tonga/Samoa English unch...