BBC World Service

BBC World Service 是英国广播公司（BBC）拥有和运营的国际广播电台。它是世界上最大的外部广播机构，覆盖范围广、语言选择多且受众广泛¹。BBC World Service 以短波和数字平台在40多种语言中播放新闻、演讲和讨论节目，覆盖世界各地，包括互联网流媒体、播客、卫星、DAB、FM和MW转播。2015年，World Service 每周平均吸引了2.1亿人次的收听观众（通过电视、广播和在线）⁴。该服务的英文频道分为八个区域性频道，涵盖东南非、西非、欧洲和中东、美洲和加勒比、东亚、南亚、澳大拉西亚和英国。此外，还有两个仅在线播放的流，其中一个更加偏向新闻，称为 News Internet。BBC World Service 每天24小时播出，旨在成为“国际广播领域最知名、最受尊敬的声音”，同时保持“英国视角”的国际发展。

The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters are at Broadcasting House in Westminster, London, and it is the world’s oldest national broadcasting organisation and the largest broadcaster in the world by number of employees. It employs over 20,950 staff in total, 16,672 of whom are in public sector broadcasting. The total number of staff is 35,402 when part-time, flexible, and fixed-contract staff are included.