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The British Forces Broadcasting Service (BFBS) provides radio and television programmes for Her Majesty's Armed Forces, and their dependents worldwide. Editorial control is independent of the Ministry of Defence and the armed forces themselves. The BFBS was established by the British War Office (now the Ministry of Defence) in 1943. In 1944, it was managed by Gale Pedrick.〔 〕 Since the 1980s, BFBS has formed part of the Services Sound and Vision Corporation (SSVC), a registered charity, which is also responsible for the British Defence Film Library, SSVC Cinemas, and Combined Services Entertainment, providing entertainment for HM Forces around the world. Neither BFBS Radio nor BFBS Television carry commercial advertising. == BFBS Radio == BFBS Radio's three stations broadcast on a combination of local FM and AM analogue frequencies, via live streaming at bfbs.com/listen, on Sky Channel 0211, Freesat Channel 786, and since April 2009 on DAB Digital Radio in the UK.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=How to Listen )〕 * The Forces Station BFBS – Contemporary music and Forces Community Radio * BFBS Radio 2 – popular music, news, current affairs and sport * BFBS Gurkha Radio – programming for Gurkhas BFBS broadcasts to service personnel and their families and friends worldwide with local radio studios in Brunei, Canada, Cyprus, Germany, Gibraltar, the Falkland Islands, and Northern Ireland and operational areas from the studio in Afghanistan.〔(British Forces Broadcasting Service: Good morning Afghanistan! ), Angus Batey, ''The Guardian'', 29 September 2011〕 In addition, BFBS radio is heard by troops in Ascension Island, Belgium, the Netherlands, Naples, Italy and Stavanger, Norway as well as onboard Royal Navy ships at sea via live satellite links, online at bfbs.com/radio and on Sky Digital channel 0211, via a Eutelsat 28A (transponder ). It broadcast in Malta until 25 March 1979, when British forces left the islands.〔(''A microphone and a frequency: forty years of forces broadcasting'' ), Doreen Taylor, Heinemann, 1983, page 174〕 It ceased broadcasts from Berlin on 15 July 1994, following the end of the Cold War, German reunification, and the withdrawal of British forces from the city, after 33 years.〔(Encyclopedia of Radio – C. Sterling )〕 The BFBS Berlin frequency was given up on 12 Dec 1994. It ceased broadcasting in Belize in August 2011.〔(British Forces radio, BFBS, end of an era—signing off permanently in Belize | Channel5Belize.com )〕 The Forces Station BFBS is a music, news, entertainment and community service providing bespoke content to the global Forces Community with a focus on Forces News and connecting the Forces communities around the world. Bespoke news bulletins are broadcast every hour, 24 hours a day, utilising audio from BBC News, IRN and BFBS's own team of Forces News reporters. The standard bulletin is three minutes long, with extended ten-minute ''Newsplus'' programmes on weekdays at 0400, 0700, 1100, 1300 and 1700 UK time. Two-minute-long news and sport headlines are broadcast on the half-hour during breakfast programming. Bulletins are broadcast around the clock on BFBS Radio and BFBS Gurkha Radio, and during BFBS Radio 2's music programming. Many of the programmes on BFBS Radio 2 are sourced from BBC Radio 4 and BBC Radio Five Live, including the soap opera ''The Archers'', which was popular in Hong Kong until BFBS Radio ceased broadcasting on 30 June 1997 before the handover to China.〔(Hong Kong's farewell to the Archers ... from Pete and Dud ) ''The Independent'' 16 April 1997〕 BFBS Radio also provides programmes in Gurkhali, for the Gurkha units serving with the British Army. At midnight on Saturday 12 January 2008, the Forces Station BFBS began a trial period of broadcasting nationwide across the UK on DAB, which ran until 23:59 on 31 March 2008. Audience research carried out during the trial concluded that it was successful, and The Forces Station BFBS now broadcasts nationally on DAB Digital Radio.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://radiotoday.co.uk/2009/04/dab-re-armed-with-bfbs-radio/ )〕 On Monday 31 May 2010, BBC Radio 1 teamed up with BFBS transmitting the 10 hour takeover show from Camp Bastion with BFBS presenters and shout outs from the military community, and repeated the link-up in 2011. In December 2011, Smooth Radio broadcast their national breakfast show, presented by Simon Bates, from the BFBS studios in Camp Bastion. On 8 April 2012, Easter Sunday, BFBS simulcast a two-hour show with Smooth, presented jointly by Simon Bates and BFBS's Rachel Cochrane allowing family and friends of serving troops to connect with their loved ones. On April 1, 2013, BFBS began a new 10-year contract for to supply all forces broadcasting service to British troops around the world and expanded its service to UK army bases formerly served by Garrison Radio. Signal Radio teamed up with BFBS to broadcast a Christmas connection. You can listen here: http://www.muzu.tv/channel/signal1/christmas-connection-video/2138266/ . BFBS UK Bases stations now serve communities in Aldershot, Aldergrove, Ballykinler, Blandford, Catterick, Colchester, Edinburgh, Fort George, Holywood, Inverness, Lisburn, Penicuik, Salisbury Plain with a station at RAF Brize Norton. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「British Forces Broadcasting Service」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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