Jun 22 2018
The BBC is reaching a record weekly audience of 376m people, new figures published today reveal. The figures – the Global Audience Measure (GAM) – show how many adults the BBC reached weekly with its news and entertainment content in the year 2017/18. The BBC World Service, which has just undertaken its biggest expansion since […]
Oct 2 2017
The BBC World Service is now available on DAB digital radio in Denmark following a national switch to DAB+. Overnight from 30th September to 1st October 2017, the Danish DAB network was switched to the newer DAB+ standard, providing room for new services to launch, including the BBC World Service, which now occupies a 40kbps […]
Sep 25 2017
The new Korean language service announced in November 2016 by the BBC World Service began broadcasting today. Audiences in the Korean peninsula and Korean speakers around the world can now hear radio broadcasts and access the latest news online at BBC.com/Korean. BBC News Korean is one of 12 new language service launches now underway as […]
May 25 2017
The BBC has reported a 7% increase in its global reach, with strong gains for the BBC World Service and BBC World News TV. With a record weekly global audience of 372 million, the BBC continues to work towards Director-General Tony Hall’s 500 million target, which he wants to reach by 2022. The number of […]
Mar 13 2017
BBC World Service English has announced the launch of a 24/7 DAB+ radio service in the Netherlands in an agreement with Broadcast Digital Networks (BDN) and Mobiele TV Nederland (MTVNL). In a three year contract BBC World Service English will be streamed 24 hours a day, 7 days a week on digital radio in the […]
Mar 13 2017
BBC World Service English has announced the launch of a 24/7 DAB+ radio service in the Netherlands in an agreement with Broadcast Digital Networks (BDN) and Mobiele TV Nederland (MTVNL). In a three year contract BBC World Service English will be streamed 24 hours a day, 7 days a week on digital radio in the […]
Mar 6 2017
The BBC will extend its expansion of the World Service by providing a digital-only service in Serbian, it said today. This follows last year’s announcement of a major expansion to the BBC World Service, with services in 11 new languages and enhancements to existing services. Director of the BBC World Service Francesca Unsworth says: “I’m […]
Nov 16 2016
The BBC World Service today announced its biggest expansion since the 1940s, in a move designed to bring its independent journalism to millions more people around the world, including in places where media freedom is under threat. The BBC World Service will also expand its digital services to offer more mobile and video content, a […]
May 3 2016
The BBC reaches a record weekly audience of 348 million people worldwide, a 13 per cent increase on last year, according to figures released by the BBC Global Audience Measure (GAM). The figures show that the BBC’s weekly global news audience has increased by 38 million people, or 13 per cent, to a total of […]
Nov 24 2015
The government has promised to invest an annual £85 million (€121 million) in the BBC’s digital, TV and radio services as part of the Strategic Defence Review. It marks an about-turn for policymakers, which is 2010 ended the tradition that the BBC World Service should be funded through foreign office grants, rather than the Licence […]
Nov 3 2015
BBC World Service has launched a prototype media player aimed at reaching young Africans through social and digital media. Optimised for smartphones, BBC Minute CatchUP was designed by Cape Town-based social enterprise hub, RLabs, as part of a hackathon held earlier this year by the BBC World Service and BBC Connected Studio. BBC Minute is […]
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Jun 4 2020
BBC World Service Director calls for trusted news access to chat apps
The Director of the BBC World Service Group Jamie Angus has called on chat apps to open their platforms to trusted news sources like the BBC, as part of the global effort to counter misinformation during the global Covid-19 crisis. Speaking to the Media Masters podcast, Angus says: “WhatsApp has allowed the WHO to publish […]
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By Expat • BBC • Tags: apps, BBC World Service, Covid-19