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    The Wartime Broadcasting Service is a service of the BBC that is intended to broadcast in the United Kingdom either after a nuclear attack or if conventional...
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    would start broadcasting in additional languages including Amharic and Igbo, in its biggest expansion since the 1940s. BBC World Service English maintains...
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  • BBC (redirect from British Broadcasting Co)
    The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster headquartered at Broadcasting House in London, England. Originally established...
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  • Protect and Survive (category Cold War broadcasting)
    Police" single by Radiohead. Also, London post-rock band Public Service Broadcasting recorded the track "Protect and Survive" using samples from the Roger...
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  • The British Broadcasting Company Limited (BBC) was a short-lived British commercial broadcasting company formed on 18 October 1922 by British and American...
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    BBC Hausa (category BBC World Service foreign language stations)
    formats and online access to radio broadcasts. The radio service is broadcast from Broadcasting House in London with preliminary editing done at the BBC's...
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  • programmes held in 20 underground radio stations of the BBC's Wartime Broadcasting Service (WTBS), designed to provide public information and morale-boosting...
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  • aftermath of an attack, available from the BBC: This is the Wartime Broadcasting Service. This country has been attacked with nuclear weapons. Communications...
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  • emergency alert system called the Wartime Broadcasting Service, aimed to keep UK residents informed after a catastrophic wartime attack, such as a nuclear warhead...
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    Programme and the Regional Programme (which began broadcasting on 9 March 1930) – as well as a basic service from London that include programming originated...
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    BBC Urdu (category BBC World Service foreign language stations)
    Urdu Service, originally launched in May 1940, was initially known as the BBC Hindustani Service. It was launched to mitigate the influence of wartime misinformation...
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    Asian Network became a full time service, resulting in BBC WM no longer broadcasting on MW. In the 1990s, as an economic measure, BBC WM took over BBC Coventry...
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    September 1939 – by the BBC National Programme. The service was intended as a domestic replacement for the wartime BBC General Forces Programme which had gained...
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    weather data, control aids to navigation, and coordinate the Wartime Broadcasting Service that would occur after a nuclear attack. Operation Sandstone...
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    forces in Britain, playing an important role in disseminating the arts, broadcasting music (mainly classical), plays, documentary features and talks. It was...
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    the late 1980s, as perestroika took hold. On 26 March 2011 the service stopped broadcasting on medium and shortwave, and now publishes and broadcasts on...
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  • Broadcast System Emergency Alert System CONELRAD HANDEL Wartime Broadcasting Service - a broadcasting service run by the BBC that would operate after a nuclear...
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  • BBC Sounds (section Service)
    media and audio download service from the BBC that includes live radio broadcasts, audio on demand, and podcasts. The service is available on a wide range...
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  • transmitter broadcasts the 103.7 MHz frequency. The Fenham transmitter, broadcasting the 104.4 MHz frequency, is situated close to the studios on Barrack...
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    residents who did not have VHF / FM on their radios, BBC Radio Oxford begins broadcasting on 202 metres medium wave (1484 kHz). The station would also be available...
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    Four-minute warning (United Kingdom) HANDEL (United Kingdom) Wartime Broadcasting Service (United Kingdom) Public Warning System (Singapore) J-Alert (Japan)...
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  • Music National DAB multiplex Programmes Radio Explorer Radio Orchestra School Radio BBC Sounds Wartime Broadcasting Service Category Commons BBC Portal...
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    Centre Continuity of government Hack Green Secret Nuclear Bunker Wartime Broadcasting Service Cocroft, Wayne; Thomas, Roger J. C (2003). Cold War: Building...
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  • to reflect the wider reach across the three counties and to give equal service to all. The editorial area was not, at that point, expanded but enhanced...
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  • was the third BBC Local Radio station to start broadcasting, launching on 22 November 1967 and broadcasting from the sixth floor of council-owned offices...
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  • online via BBC Sounds. Until 17 May 2021, BBC Radio Lancashire was also broadcasting on medium wave. Local programming is produced and broadcast from the...
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  • service broadcasting remit, 1Xtra is required to carry a significant amount of news, information and speech content. 1Xtra had its own news service,...
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  • Radio Berkshire was launched on 21 January 1992 as a part-time station, broadcasting for part of the weekday and weekend mornings with BBC Radio Oxford carried...
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    broadcasts on FM, DAB, digital TV and via BBC Sounds from studios at Broadcasting House in Bristol. According to RAJAR, the station has a weekly audience...
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  • Borough Hill was the BBC's first long wave transmitter, which began broadcasting on 27 July 1925. It had not been previously used by the BBC since 1978...
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