"BBC WORLD"

And it gets taken down when you post it! please remove the link!

how come your not allowed to post that , is it illegal, they said that on DS that the person who posted it should remove it. Am i ok watching it?

As the moderator said you're OK watching it personally and thus suppling via personal means i.e. Email etc, However posting the link will result in its removal as the link is shut down.

It is also illegal to view BBC World here in the UK due to the licensing laws, I'm not so sure via the internet though...

Quick - unplug your computer and put a blanket over it. The police will be on their way to arrest you under the Reception of Prohibited Television Channels Act 1884.

Rubbish. It's not illegal. It's just that the BBC's charter does not allow it to promote an ad-funded channel to a domestic audience.

I've just returned from holiday. I was able to watch BBC World whilst in the hotel room. I have to say the channel certainly does not feel as well produced as it did a few years ago. For some reason the news presenter is nearly always cut off mid sentence when doing the update at half past the hour. Is this a regional problem with timing or a pres problem on the whole? One thing that does puzzle me is at the top of the hour the news titles say BBC World in large text and BBC News in smaller text but yet at half past the hour its BBC News in large text and BBC World in smaller text. Is there a specific reason for this? The weather intro music is just tacky now. Obviously someone just cut it up and wacked bits together from the original weather theme for this. It sounded awful. I was actually happy when the weather sponsor came on at peak viewing times to hide that hideous music. The breakfiller contains a bit too much info to read in the 15 secs its on screen but then i guess this has low priority as obviously they would prefer to have ads on in this space. I dont know why but the channel felt like it was dragging half the time and i did something i never normally do. I ended up watching Sky News (purely because it was the only other english speaking channel apart from BBC Prime but lets not go there on that one). I am so glad we have BBC News 24 in the UK. Go abroad cause you soon realise what an excellent service N24 is!

Correct. BBC World is broadcast Free To Air (FTA) on two European satellites - Hotbird and Astra. Both of these satellites can be picked up in the UK with the correct (and legal) equipment - if BBC World want to broadcast on them, then people in the UK can view it. It would, however, be illegal for BBC World to be included in the Sky Digital package, as this is being directed at a domestic UK audience - as Londoner said, the BBC would therefore be promoting a commercial channel to the UK, which goes against the BBC Charter.

The new titles, introduced a little after the newsroom's renewal, are red and black and with the BBC WORLD logo in the middle. The strange thing is that they use them only at the top of the hour while every other sting still has the old orange titles (which IMO are much nicer) , which carry the BBC NEWS logo in the middle. They also haven't created any different titles for News Extra, which is opened by the old top of the hour sting... It's all very confused and illogical.

Although some hotels in the UK do show BBC World, and you can still watch specially-recorded and branded BBC World summaries on the Heathrow Express.

BBC World is bought by the Heathrow Express as a media package and there are no adverts on the trains tv. It's only a short news summary and weather report anyway. I believe Hotels can buy BBC World as a media package in the UK as well. In fact i think you can buy it to watch at home if you want but it aint cheap.

Buy an analogue sat receiver off Ebay for less than £5. Then go down to the tip and get an old sat dish. (anything bigger than a 'sky' dish will do)

Point the dish at 19.2, and there's World.

Total cost: pennies.

Some things are priceless.

For everything else there's Mastercard.