The BBC maintains a number of separate ventures across the world some of which help fund BBC public services.
BBC World Service
BBC World Service is an international multimedia broadcaster, delivering a wide range of language and regional services on radio, TV, online and via wireless handheld devices.
It uses multiple platforms to reach its weekly audience of 166 million globally, including shortwave, AM, FM, digital satellite and cable channels.
Its news sites include audio & video content and offer opportunities to join the global debate.
BBC World News
BBC World News is the BBC’s commercially funded international news and information television channel, broadcasting in English 24 hours a day in many countries across the world. BBC World News is available in more than 200 countries and territories worldwide, around 300 million households and 1.8 million hotel rooms.
The channel provides hourly bulletins with news, business, sport and weather information, and also broadcasts the best of the BBC’s current affairs, documentary and lifestyle programming.
BBC Worldwide
The BBC’s main commercial arm, BBC Worldwide is headquartered in London.
Since 2007, however, the business has sought to operate more internationally, and now over two-thirds of its revenues coming from outside the UK.
To help deliver its commercial activity, BBC Worldwide has offices around the world, with staff who have local language skills who can better understand what local audiences and clients are looking for, and who act as global ambassadors for the BBC and the UK.
These offices are based across North & South America, Europe, Asia and Australasia.
BBC World runs a number of channels broadcasting outside of the UK.
BBC Monitoring
BBC Monitoring provides news, information and comment gathered from mass media around the world.
