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BBC Mundo benefits from the international newsgathering strength of the BBC, which has journalists in more places than any other international news broadcaster. The service's website was born in 1999 as a debate site – a single page dedicated to encouraging a weekly discussion of specific subjects on the global news agenda.
The BBC World Service began on 19 December 1932 as the BBC Empire Service, broadcasting on shortwave [25] and aimed principally at English speakers across the British Empire. In his first Christmas Message (1932), King George V characterised the service as intended for "men and women, so cut off by the snow, the desert, or the sea, that only ...
BBC News is an operational business division [2] of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs in the UK and around the world. The department is the world's largest broadcast news organisation and generates about 120 hours of radio and television output each day, as well ...
In October 2006, BBC Entertainment replaced BBC Prime in Asian markets, and went on to replace it in other territories during the period 2007–2009. Other channels that were rolled out internationally included BBC Knowledge and BBC Lifestyle, and an international version of CBeebies. The aim of the new launches was to simplify and diversify ...
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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 19 December 2024. English-language pay television channel This article is about the English-language audio-visual international news and current affairs operations of the BBC. For the BBC's corporate division administering it, as well as the audio-only branding of the same, see BBC World Service. This ...
The first two parts are usually only shown on the international feed of BBC News channel when the domestic feed is showing BBC News at Six and Sportsday. However, in the event of the BBC News at Six being delayed or some big international story, all four parts are broadcast on the UK feed. The last two parts of the programme are shown on both ...
BBC Two variations exist in the Nations; however, English regions today rarely have the option to opt out as regional programming now exists only on BBC One. In 2019, the Scottish variation of BBC Two ceased operation and was replaced with the networked version in favour of a new BBC Scotland channel. BBC Two was the first channel to be ...