Last updated: 12 march, 2009 - 17:32 GMT

Listening in Australia, New Zealand and the South-West Pacific

There are no BBC shortwave transmissions for Australia or New Zealand, but there are several other ways to listen:

Local stations

BBC World Service has numerous local AM and FM partner stations in the region which broadcast selected BBC World Service programmes or segments of programming.

click More information

Australia: Satellite

In Australia, BBC World Service is broadcast 24 hours a day direct-to-home via the following operators:

click Optus Aurora

click Austar

click Foxtel

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