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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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  • 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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  • 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 call sign WTBS from 1961 to 1979 The British Broadcasting Corporation Wartime Broadcasting Service Legal entities of Jehovah's Witnesses Watch Tower...
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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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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  • The BBC Albanian Service (Albanian: BBC Shqiptar) was a foreign language service of the BBC World Service. It ceased operations on 28 February 2011. "BBCAlbanian...
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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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    regional programming ended on 31 December 1982. BBC Radio Devon started broadcasting on 17 January 1983, replacing the BBC Radio 4 regional breakfast show...
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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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    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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    listeners and a 6.7% share as of December 2023. BBC Radio Suffolk began broadcasting on 12 April 1990. In 2004, it won was named Station of the Year in the...
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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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  • 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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    the southern Thames Estuary. There are no longer any AM transmitters broadcasting BBC Essex, the last two being closed in May 2021. The 500 ft Manningtree...
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    Radio Cumbria had been the only BBC local radio station that wasn't broadcasting on DAB. The station is also available on Freeview TV channel 713 in the...
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