Global news services
Audiences around the world can access BBC News services - on radio, on television and online
BBC World Service
The BBC is the world’s most trusted international news broadcaster – committed to providing accurate, impartial, and independent news to audiences across the UK and around the world. The BBC World Service is the BBC’s international broadcaster, delivering a wide range of programmes and services on radio, TV, and digitally, globally.
Mainly through the BBC World Service, BBC News reaches a global weekly audience of around 418 million people (BBC Global Audience Measure 2025). The BBC World Service is one of the UK’s most important cultural exports – informing and inspiring the lives of people across the globe, helping them make sense of the world we live in.
The BBC World Service currently operates in 43 languages, including English, and has the global insight and expertise to give audiences a truly international news service, with BBC News journalists and supporting staff in 64 cities across 54 countries.
The BBC World Service is primarily funded from the UK licence fee, with additional grants from the UK’s Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO).
BBC News Channel and BBC.com
International audiences access BBC News via the BBC News channel, broadcasting in English 24 hours a day in many countries across the world.
BBC Studios secures commercial revenues from the channel outside the UK, through advertising and distribution, returning funding to the BBC, that can be reinvested. BBC Studios is also responsible for the development and operation of global digital news platforms BBC.com and the BBC app, offering stories and videos across Business, Innovation, Culture, Travel, Earth and more, alongside News and Sport.