B.B.C. General Overseas Service (Hansard, 16 December 1959)

Dr. Hill

I take my hon. Friend's references to the Overseas Service to mean the General Overseas Service in English of the B.B.C.

Five independent Commonwealth countries, 24 United Kingdom dependencies and 3 foreign countries regularly rebroadcast programmes of the General Overseas Service. 29 of the 32 rebroadcast programmes daily.

In the past two years, Ceylon and Brunei have ceased to rebroadcast General Overseas Service programmes and Australia has ceased to rebroadcast these programmes in its external service of Radio Australia. Four stations—Ghana, New Guinea, the Australian Broadcasting Commission and Radio Jamaica—have reduced their rebroadcasting within the last two years.

I am not aware of any announcement by other countries of their intention to rebroadcast fewer programmes in the General Overseas Service.

The list of countries where rebroadcasting occurs is given below: Regular rebroadcasting of the B.B.C's General Overseas Service occurs in the following 32 countries:—

^*Australia.
^*Bahamas.
^*Barbados.
^*British Guiana.
^*British Honduras.
^*British North Borneo.
^*Canada.
^*Falkland Islands.
^*Fiji.
^*Ghana.
^*Gibraltar.
^*Hong Kong.
^*Jamaica.
^*Kenya.
^*Liberia.
Malaya.
^*Malta.
^*New Zealand.
^*Nigeria.
^*Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland.
^*Sarawak.
^*Seychelles.
^*Sierra Leone.
Singapore.
^*Solomon Islands.
^*Somalia Protectorate.
^*Switzerland.
^*Tanganyika.
^*Uganda.
United States of America
^*Windward Islands.

Daily rebroadcasts are indicated by an asterisk. In a number of countries more than one system or network rebroadcasts.