The shortwave schedule of the BBC World Service on the timelines of your cities: every broadcast with its language, frequencies, target area and transmitter site, shown in your own time zone instead of UTC.
English is the largest part of the schedule, aimed at South Asia, the Middle East, Africa and South East Asia, with the morning and evening blocks for Africa among the longest. The language services that still use shortwave serve places where it reaches people that FM and the internet do not: Hausa for Nigeria and West Africa, Somali, French for Africa, Arabic, Dari and Pashto for Afghanistan, Farsi for Iran, Korean on weekdays, and Amharic, Oromo and Tigrinya for Ethiopia and Eritrea, back to back on weekday evenings.
The broadcasts come from a worldwide network of relays — A'Seela in Oman, Dhabbaya in the UAE, Ascension Island, Woofferton in England, Tashkent, Cyprus and Madagascar — often on three or four frequencies at once. Like every international broadcaster, the BBC publishes its schedule in UTC and changes frequencies twice a year, at the end of March and the end of October. This calendar follows the current season of the EiBi shortwave schedule and places each broadcast at its local time in each of your cities.
Select a broadcast to see its frequencies in kHz, the target area, the transmitter and the days it airs, with a link to listen on an online SDR receiver.
Yes. English programs go out on shortwave to Africa, South Asia, the Middle East and South East Asia, alongside services in Hausa, Somali, French, Arabic, Dari, Pashto, Farsi, Korean, Amharic, Oromo, Tigrinya and Burmese.
Each broadcast has its own set of frequencies for its target area, mostly between 7.4 and 17.8 MHz, and a few go out on medium wave. Select a broadcast on the timeline to see its frequencies in kHz. They change at the end of March and the end of October.
The BBC no longer aims shortwave broadcasts at Western Europe. English programs for Africa and the Middle East, especially from Ascension Island and Woofferton, can often be heard in Europe in the evening.
Mostly from relay sites in Oman (A'Seela) and the United Arab Emirates (Dhabbaya), from Ascension Island in the South Atlantic and from Woofferton in England, with more relays in Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Cyprus and Madagascar.
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