BBC World Service
The BBC World Service is an international broadcaster owned and operated by the BBC. It broadcasts radio news, speech and discussions in more than 40 languages to many parts of the world. In 2015, The World Service reached an average of 210 million people a week. In November 2016, the BBC announced that it would start broadcasting in additional languages including Amharic and Igbo, in its biggest expansion since the 1940s.
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The BBC World Service is an international broadcaster owned and operated by the BBC. It broadcasts radio news, speech and discussions in more than 40 languages to many parts of the world on analogue and digital shortwave platforms, internet streaming, podcasting, satellite, DAB, FM and MW relays. In 2015, The World Service reached an average of 210 million people a week. In November 2016, the BBC announced that it would start broadcasting in additional languages including Amharic and Igbo, in its biggest expansion since the 1940s. The service is funded by the United Kingdom’s television licence fee, limited advertising and the profits of BBC Studios. It is also guaranteed £289 million from the UK government. The current controller ofBBC World Service English is Mary Hockaday. The BBC World service began on 19 December 1932 as the BBC Empire Service, broadcasting on shortwave and aimed principally at English-speakers across the British Empire. It expanded its reach with the opening of the Ascension Island relay in 1966, serving African audiences with a stronger signal and better reception, and with the later relay on the Island of Masirah in Oman. In August 1985 the service went off-air for the first time when workers went on strike in protest at the British government’s decision to ban a documentary featuring an interview with Martin McGuinness of Sinn Féin. The External Services broadcast propaganda during the Second World War of 1939–1945.
George Orwell broadcast many news bulletins on the Eastern Service during World War II. In 2011 a BBC newsreader resigned from his BBC service and claims of involvement in the Kyrgyz revolution of April 2010. He had been based in London but used a disguised voice on a radio station with a pseudonym. He often traveled to KyrgyZstan and used BBC resources to agitate against the President Bakiyev Bakziyev. In 2007 he appeared on a BBC radio station under a pseudonym with a voice disguised as a post-graduate student. He also appeared on television in Arabic and Persian. In 2008, he appeared in a BBC TV programme under a disguised voice with a disguising voice. In 2010, he resigned from BBC TV and claimed he had been involved in the Kyrgyz revolution of April 2010. He said that he had used a pseudonym to appear on aRadio station with post-graduate students in Krygyzstan and Arabic and Persian and that he had been based in London, but had traveled to Kyrgy zstan under a disguised voice with a post graduate student in 2008. In 2009, he resigned from the BBC and went on to work as a television newsreader for a number of countries, including the United Kazakhstan, Bulgarian, Kosovo, Slovenia, Hungary and Thai. On 1 May 1965 the service took its current name of BBC World Service. On 25 October 2005, it announced that broadcasts in Bulgarian, Croatian, Hungarian, Kazakh, Kazakh,. Kazakh, Slovak, Slovene and Thai would launch by March 2006.
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