Презентация по страноведению "BBC World Service"

• The  BBC World Service  is the world's largest international broadcaster, which 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 November 2016 the BBC announced again that it would start broadcasting in additional languages including Amharic and Igbo, in its biggest expansion since the 1940s.In 2015 World Service reached an average of 210 million people a week (via TV, radio and online).The English-language service broadcasts 24 hours a day.

History

• By the end of the 1940s the number of broadcast languages had expanded and reception had improved, following the opening of a relay in modern-day Malaysia and of the Limassol relay in Cyprus in 1957. On 1 May 1965 the service took its current name of  BBC World Service . 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.
• Subsequently, financial pressures decreased the number and the types of services offered by the BBC. Audiences in countries with wide access to Internet services have less need for terrestrial radio. Broadcasts in German ended in March 1999, after research showed that the majority of German listeners tuned into the English-language service. Broadcasts in Dutch, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese and Malay stopped for similar reasons.

• News is at the core of the scheduling. A five-minute bulletin is generally transmitted at 01 past the hour, with a two-minute summary at 30 past the hour. Sometimes these are separate from other programming, or alternatively made integral to the programme (such as with  The Newsroom ,  Newshour  or  Newsday ). During such time slots as weeknights 11pm-12am GMT and that of  Sportsworld , no news summaries are broadcast. As part of the BBC's policy for breaking news, the Service is the first to receive a full report for foreign news.
• The station also publishes a  Global News  podcast twice a day (once on weekends), of around 30 minutes. The podcast is comparable to an edition of  The Newsroom  but without the five-minute reading of the news. Between 2007 and 2015 it was downloaded more than 300 million times.

News

• London Calling : listings
• BBC Worldwide : included features of interest to an international audience (included  London Calling  as an insert)
• BBC on Air : mainly listings
• BBC Focus on Africa : current affairs

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