BBC World Service

I don't know where this thread belongs -- so move it where you like……

First off, is it possible to capture or get a hold of the World Service's music idents etc? I've listed to it a few times online and i like the music and titles they use a lot.

And does anyone know why the BBC World Service's website front page recently changed? It looked a lot better before.

thanks

re: website, you mean getting rid of the graphic at the top etc?

I haven't looked at the WS website for several weeks but if they have cut down on all the graphics in this way it could simply be the site has been overloaded because of the recent events and they are trying to speed it up.

The fact that there is a lot more news now on the WS page than there used to be would suggest that a lot of people from elsewhere around the world are coming to the BBC world service for news and they are trying to cater for them and also shift all the extra traffic to news.bbc.co.uk, which seems to have rather more servers than www.bbc.co.uk in my experience.

The other possibility is this creation of non-UK online news service (bbcnews.com I think its supposed to be called), the meging of WS and BBC World (formerly World service television).
Perhaps they are going to come up with a new identity for everyone to use shortly.

If anyone from BBC Online read this forum, I'd be fascinated to know the answer (or to chat to them generally actually!)

William

these are all the BBC servers i can think of

www.bbc.co.uk
www0.bbc.co.uk
www2.bbc.co.uk
www3.bbc.co.uk
cgi.bbc.co.uk

news.bbc.co.uk
news1.thdo.bbc.co.uk
news2.thdo.bbc.co.uk through to news9

news1 - news9 .thny.bbc.co.uk

+ rm.bbc.co.uk
bbc.net.uk and all the realmedia servers and othersites.

You actually mean URL's I think, not servers.
The Beeb have hundreds of servers, and hundreds more for internal use which the public can't access

hmm, how odd, in the post above it pu www 0.bbc.co.uk (without the space. wierd

This isn't exactly relevant to this topic, but I can't find the exact topic, and it's similar enough.

I think it's quite amusing how the BBC World Service Radio is finally coming BBC World - World Service Television became BBC World in January 1995...it took them six years!

Before I discovered BBC World, I used to think bbcworld.com was the BBC's worldwide website!

D'oh!