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THE BUSINESS OF RADIO | BROADCASTERS
24 | WORLD RADIO DAY 2016 | CELEBRATING RADIO
BBC WORLD SERVICE
PARENT ORGANISATION BBC (BRITISH BROADCASTING CORPORATION)
KEY CONTACT INFORMATION
SIMON KENDALL
Head, Business Development
BBC WORLD SERVICE
New Broadcasting House
Portland Place
London
W1A 1AA
United Kingdom
T +44 20 7580 4468
KEY ENGLISH-LANGUAGE
PROGRAMMES
Newshour
Outlook
Witness
The Conversation
PROFILE
The BBC World Service was
founded in 1932 and has a
worldwide audience of 210 million
people weekly, via radio, digital
and TV, with a radio audience of
133m people weekly. The BBC
World Service is available in
English and in 28 other languages.
The BBC World Service reaches
audiences via a global network of
its own FM radio stations and over
1,200 radio partners as well as
directly through digital. We also
continue to broadcast via short
wave and medium wave in relevant
regions.
Since 2014 the BBC World
Service has been funded by the
Licence Fee, paid by the UK public.
The UK Government has
recently announced a funding
boost for the BBC World Service to
enhance our services across Africa,
the Middle East, Russia, India,
South East Asia and North Korea.
The BBC has correspondents in
74 news bureaux around the world.
BBC World Service English has a
global audience of 52m people
weekly.
The BBC is consistently rated as
the most trusted international news
provider. Nobel Prize winner Malala
Yousafzai has called the BBC ‘the
best export of Britain to the world’.
Our languages
English; French (Afrique);
Hausa; Kinyrawanda, Kirundi
(Great Lakes); Somali; Swahili;
Kyrgyz; Uzbek; Burmese;
Mandarin, Cantonese;
Indonesian; Thai; Vietnamese;
Bengali; Hindi; Nepali; Pashto,
Dari; Sinhala; Tamil; Urdu;
Azeri; Russian; Turkish;
Ukrainian; Portuguese
(Brasil); Spanish (Mundo);
Arabic; Persian
Audience figure
BBC World Service total
audience, including all radio and
TV services, is 210m (May 2015)
Web traffic
World Service language sites
doubled their web traffic year on
year, receiving around 90m
monthly unique browsers by
November 2015
KimChakanetsa of The Conversation