It began in 1932 as the “BBC Empire Service” — making radio broadcasts via globe-girdling shortwave to the far-flung territories ruled under the British Crown. Subsequently, what is now the BBC World ...

Encompass Digital Media’s Woofferton site in the United Kingdom beams BBC World Service content in shortwave DRM to Europe and beyond. The author is chairman of the DRM Consortium. Her commentaries ...

The BBC World Service has published its performance review covering the period of 2016 – 2020. The review, set out in the 2016 Agreement with the Secretary of State for Department for Digital, Culture ...

Marie Gillespie receives funding from the AHRC and ESRC. The BBC World Service is well-known to insomniacs tuning in to Radio 4 in the middle of the night, intrepid travellers, expat Britons and ...

BBC World Service has been given a funding boost in the UK budget. The budget document said: “In 2025-26, the settlement provides an increase in funding to the BBC World Service, protecting existing ...

The BBC celebrates its 100th birthday on October 18, 2022. It comes as the institution faces increasing competition for audiences from global entertainment providers, anxieties about the ...

BBC sports correspondents tell the story behind today's top sporting news, with interviews and reports from across the world.

BBC World Service will cut a net 130 jobs, including in the UK, as it battles to save £6m in the year ahead. Foreign Secretary David Lammy announced an extra £32.6m for the BBC World Service for ...

The BBC thanks the NAO for its report which recognises the BBC World Service “plays a vital role across the globe at a time where there is an increasing amount of misinformation and curtailment to ...