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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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    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 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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  • 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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  • 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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    part time service on MW and in 1996, the Asian Network became a full time service. Consequently, at this point, BBC WM stopped broadcasting on MW. In...
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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 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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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • before a catastrophic wartime attack, such as a nuclear warhead detonation or severe bombing. The Wartime Broadcasting Service was to operate after such...
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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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    Wiltshire. This became the umbrella name for the radio station and online service, in common with branding policy across most of the BBC local radio network...
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    local radio station serving Hampshire, Dorset and the Isle of Wight, broadcasting on FM, DAB, digital TV and via BBC Sounds from studios on Havelock Road...
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  • complain about the loss of services on medium wave, from 17 August to 24 September 2012 when BBC Radio Nottingham stopped broadcasting its programmes on medium...
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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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  • Music National DAB multiplex Programmes Radio Explorer Radio Orchestra School Radio BBC Sounds Wartime Broadcasting Service Category Commons BBC Portal...
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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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    residents who did not have 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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    a part-time service across the Midlands, it became a full-time service in 1996, resulting in BBC Radio Leicester no longer broadcasting on medium wave...
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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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  • Music National DAB multiplex Programmes Radio Explorer Radio Orchestra School Radio BBC Sounds Wartime Broadcasting Service Category Commons BBC Portal...
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