MUMBAI: BBC World Service’s weekly radio audience estimate is 182 million listeners a week across its 33 language services – down one million on last year’s...
MUMBAI: BBC correspondent Alan Johnston was given an award by BBC World Service for his outstanding contribution to the international broadcaster. The award coincided with the...
MUMBAI: BBC World Service will receive a £70 million funding increase from the UK government for the three-year period from 2008-2009 to 2010-2011. The announcement was...
MUMBAI: BBC World Service now claims to have more listeners than any other international radio broadcaster, with an increase in its audience to a record 183...
MUMBAI: Gwyneth Williams has been appointed director of BBC World Service’s English networks and news. She will be responsible for all the BBC’s international radio programmes...
MUMBAI: BBC World Service will launch a television news and information service in the Farsi (Persian) language for Iran, it was announced today. The service will...
MUMBAI: BBC World Service has appointed Uduak Amimo as its senior editorial adviser, supporting the Director of the BBC World Service, Nigel Chapman. Uduak advises on...
MUMBAI: BBC World Service has published its annual review. It notes that it managed to enhance its reputation as the world’s leading international broadcaster throughout a...
MUMBAI: BBC World Service now attracts 163 million weekly radio listeners to its 33 language services – a record audience for the world’s best-known and most...
MUMBAI: UK pubcaster BBC’s division BBC World Service has appointed Salah Negm as news editor for its Arabic television service which will be launched next year....
MUMBAI: Access to BBC Persian.com, the BBC’s international news website, is being blocked within Iran at the request of the authorities. The BBC says that initial...
MUMBAI: BBC World Service asks the question Who Runs Your World?. This is patr of a season of programmes that turn the spotlight on power: who...
MUMBAI:BBC World Service’s new chief operating officer and financial director Alison Woodhams has been appointed. She takes up her post in January 2005. She will be...
MUMBAI: One of the giants of British radio BBC disc jockey John Peel, whose nightly Radio One programme is credited with launching the careers of British...
MUMBAI: It is cementing its position as the world’s leading international radio broadcaster. However, in India as in other countries, BBC World Service is grappling with...