BBC World Service

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How to Watch: BBC World Service

Below is a list of all the television and radio channels that you can watch in the UK using one of the free services: DAB (for radio), Freeview, Sky No Card - Sky without a viewing card (Freesat from Sky (or fSfS)) and Freesat.. Where a channel can be watched for free, the channel number is listed below. In addition, if you can watch (or listen) immediately online, press the button in the "web" column.

As some channels are exclusive to one service alone, you may need to get receive more than one service to get all the channels you want. The coverage for Freeview differs too - those channels not provided by the public service "Freeview Light" transmitters the current coverage shown thus (54%), taken from Connected Nations Report 2017: Data analysis'

Key: _{wb_sunny} daytime; _{watch_later} nighttime; _{account_box} funded from the TV License; flags show Freeview channel limits.

	Channel name arrow_drop_down	web	radio	Freeview	Sky	Freesat
	BBC World Serviceaccount_box	live_tv	DAB FM/AM	flag710	0115	711

Regional content: National channel with no regional content or variations.

media.info: For full details of broadcaster contacts, see the  media.info BBC World Service page.

Official site: See the  BBC World Service website.

From Wikipedia: The World Service was reported to have reached 188 million people a week on average in June 2009.3 It does not carry advertising, and the English language service broadcasts 24 hours a day. On 3 January 1938, the first foreign language service, Arabic, was launched. German programmes commenced on 29 March 1938 and by the end of 1942 broadcasts were being made in all major European languages. - en.wikipedia.org  read more about BBC World Service on wikipedia (summary by Clipped).

Freeview multiplex: BBC World Service is on multiplex PSB1 in .