Editing BBC World Service (section)

===Europe===
The BBC World Service is broadcast in Berlin on 94.8&nbsp;MHz. FM relays are also available in Ceske Budjovice, Karlovy Vary, Plzen, Usti nad Labem, Zlin and Prague in the Czech Republic, Pristina, Riga, Tallinn, Tirana and Vilnius. The station is also available in Reykjavík, Iceland on 94.5&nbsp;MHz FM.<ref>{{Cite web |title=BBC World Service coming back to Iceland |url=https://icelandmag.is/article/bbc-world-service-coming-back-iceland |access-date=2023-06-25 |website=Icelandmag |language=en}}</ref> A BBC World Service channel is available on [[DAB+]] in Brussels and Flanders and Amsterdam, the Hague, Utrecht and Rotterdam. Following a national reorganisation of DAB multiplexes in October 2017, the station is available on DAB+ across the whole of [[Denmark]].<ref>{{cite web|title=BBC World Service joins new Danish DAB+ network|url=http://www.a516digital.com/2017/10/bbc-world-service-joins-new-danish-dab.html|access-date=2 October 2017|archive-date=3 October 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171003030312/http://www.a516digital.com/2017/10/bbc-world-service-joins-new-danish-dab.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>

The World Service employed a [[Orfordness transmitting station|medium wave transmitter]] at [[Orford Ness]] to provide English-language coverage to Europe, including on the [[frequency]] 648&nbsp;[[kHz]] (which could be heard in parts of the south-east of England during the day and most of the UK after dark). Transmissions on this frequency were stopped on 27 March 2011, as a consequence of the budgetary constraints imposed on the BBC World Service in the 2010 budget review.<ref>{{cite web|title=BBC World Service: The closure of 648 kHz medium wave|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/institutional/2011/02/110208_648khz_mw_closure.shtml|publisher=BBC|access-date=11 August 2012|archive-date=2 March 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120302130012/http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/institutional/2011/02/110208_648khz_mw_closure.shtml|url-status=live}}</ref> A second channel (1296&nbsp;kHz) traditionally broadcast in various Central European languages, but this frequency has also been discontinued and in 2005 it began regular English-language transmissions via the [[Digital Radio Mondiale]] (DRM) format.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/faq/news/story/2005/09/050907_drm_launch_release.shtml|title=BBC Launches DRM Service in Europe|publisher=BBC World Service|date=7 September 2005|access-date=15 November 2006|archive-date=29 December 2006|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061229085829/http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/faq/news/story/2005/09/050907_drm_launch_release.shtml|url-status=live}}</ref> This is a digital shortwave technology that VT expects to become the standard for cross-border transmissions in developed countries.

In the 1990s, the BBC purchased and constructed large medium wave and FM networks in the former Soviet bloc, particularly the Czech (BBC Czech Section), Slovak Republics (BBC Slovak Section), Poland ([[BBC Polish Section]]) (where it was a national network) and Russia ([[BBC Russian Service]]). It had built up a strong audience during the Cold War, whilst economic restructuring made it difficult for these governments to refuse Western investment. Many of these facilities have now returned to domestic control, as economic and political conditions have changed.

On Monday, 18 February 2008, the BBC World Service stopped analogue shortwave transmissions to Europe. The notice stated, "Increasing numbers of people around the world are choosing to listen to radio on a range of other platforms including FM, satellite and online, with fewer listening on shortwave."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/5nCxH0NlsPtyW8WvJ0rwDJP/about-world-service-radio|title=BBC - About World Service radio|website=BBC|access-date=31 October 2019|archive-date=8 November 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191108015309/https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/5nCxH0NlsPtyW8WvJ0rwDJP/about-world-service-radio|url-status=live}}</ref> It is sometimes possible to pick up the BBC World Service in Europe on SW frequencies targeted at North Africa. The BBC's powerful 198&nbsp;kHz LW, which broadcasts the domestic [[BBC Radio 4]] to Britain during the day (and carries the World Service during the night) can also be heard in nearby parts of Europe, including the Republic of Ireland, the Netherlands, Belgium and parts of France, Germany and Scandinavia.

In Malta, BBC News bulletins are carried by a number of radio stations, including Radju Malta and Magic 91.7, owned by national broadcaster PBS Ltd. These are broadcast at various points in the day and supplement news bulletins broadcast in Maltese from the PBS Newsroom.

Former BBC shortwave transmitters are located in the United Kingdom at [[Rampisham Down]] in [[Dorset]], [[Woofferton transmitting station|Woofferton]] in [[Shropshire]] and [[Skelton transmitter|Skelton]] in [[Cumbria]]. The former [[British East Mediterranean Relay Station|BBC East Mediterranean Relay Station]] is in [[Cyprus]].

In response to the [[2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine]], the BBC began broadcasting World Service English programming at shortwave frequencies 15.735&nbsp;MHz and 5875&nbsp;kHz for receivers in Ukraine and parts of Russia.<ref>{{cite press release|title=Millions of Russians turn to BBC News|publisher=[[BBC]]|location=London|date=2 March 2022|accessdate=3 March 2022|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/2022/millions-of-russians-turn-to-bbc-news|archive-date=2 March 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220302232002/https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/2022/millions-of-russians-turn-to-bbc-news|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=BBC Revives Shortwave Radio Dispatches in Ukraine and Draws Ire of Russia|first=Tiffany|last=Hsu|work=[[The New York Times]]|date=3 March 2022|accessdate=3 March 2022|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/03/business/media/bbc-shortwave-radio-ukraine.html|archive-date=18 March 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220318142410/https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/03/business/media/bbc-shortwave-radio-ukraine.html|url-status=live}}</ref>