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British Forces Broadcasting Service

The British Forces Broadcasting Service (BFBS) provides radio and television programmes for His Majesty's Armed Forces, and their dependents worldwide. Editorial control is independent of the Ministry of Defence and the armed forces themselves.[2] It was established by the British War Office (now the Ministry of Defence) in 1943. In 1944, it was managed by Gale Pedrick.[3]

"BFBS" redirects here. For the religious charity, see British and Foreign Bible Society. For the plural "BFBs", see BFB (disambiguation).

Type

Armed forces media (UK)

1943 (1943)

  • United Kingdom
  • Ascension Island
  • Bahrain
  • Brunei
  • Canada
  • Cyprus
  • Diego Garcia
  • Estonia
  • Germany
  • Gibraltar
  • Falkland Islands
  • Nepal

Ben Chapman (CEO)[1]

Forces Broadcasting Service
British Forces Network

See list

Official website

Division

Mass media

1943; 81 years ago

Chalfont Grove Teleport, Chalfont St Peter, Buckinghamshire
,
United Kingdom

Worldwide

Radio broadcasting

£28,774,000

BFBS

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British Forces Broadcasting Service

www.bfbs.com/help/frequencies

BFBS 1 (launched in September 1975; formerly BFBS Television and SSVC Television) – general programming from chat shows to soap operas, dramas to news, documentaries to sport. Relayed the overnight and was later replaced by BBC One.

BBC News Channel

BFBS 2 (launched in 2001) – a six-hour block of general entertainment and sports programmes shown four times around the clock. Replaced by a variation of and merged with BFBS 3 Kids.

BBC Two

BFBS 3 Kids (launched in 2008) – children's programming and factual entertainment.

BFBS 4 (launched in May 2008) – movie channel with two films a day, each shown six times around the clock.

BFBS 1 Day Later (launched in 2008) – time-shifted channel which aired programmes from the previous day later at peak time in Afghanistan.

Alan Grace: This Is the British Forces Network. The Story of Forces Broadcasting in Germany. Stroud (1996)  0-7509-1105-0

ISBN

Alan Grace: The Link With Home. 60 Years of Forces Radio. Chalfont (2003)  0-9522135-1-6

ISBN

Doreen Taylor: A Microphone and a Frequency. Forty Years of Forces Broadcasting. London (1983)  0-434-75710-1 and ISBN 0-434-75711-X

ISBN

Oliver Zöllner: BFBS: 'Freund in der Fremde'. British Forces Broadcasting Service (Germany) – der britische Militärrundfunk in Deutschland. Göttingen (1996) [in German]  3-89588-632-7.

ISBN

Oliver Zöllner: "Forces Broadcasting: A 'Friend' Abroad", in Communications, Vol. 21 (1996), issue 4, pp. 447–466 ISSN 0341-2059.

Peter McDonagh: Me and Thirteen Tanks: Tales of a Cold War Freelance Spy. London (2014)  978-1500307370.

ISBN

Ivor Wynne Jones: BFBS Cyprus: 1948–1998. (1998)  978-0950335933.

ISBN

American Forces Network

Canadian Forces Radio and Television

Radio forces françaises de Berlin

BBC Allied Expeditionary Forces Programme

BBC Forces Programme

BBC General Forces Programme

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Official website

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