Our
Remit BFBS Television
broadcasts to British Forces personnel and their families based
overseas.
It truly is a lifeline and considered one of
the most important arms of the MoD’s welfare services for
its soldiers, sailors and airmen and women and their dependants.
BFBS TV began broadcasting in 1975 down a microwave link to
British troops and their families in Germany. It now produces
and broadcasts two 24-hour channels via satellite to 17 countries
and HM Ships.
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Channels
BFBS1
The family channel -
we cherry-pick
the best of terrestrial and satellite TV in the UK –
news, soaps, sport, movies, dramas, kids and documentaries
– then add our own productions. This is where you’ll
find This Morning, Coronation Street, Friends and EastEnders,
along with BBC and ITN news, films and documentaries.
As well as long-standing arrangements with the BBC and
ITV,
we have strong business relationships with all the majors
such as Paramount, Fox, Disney, Warner Brothers and DreamWorks
to ensure we provide the best that troops would expect
at
home.
BFBS1 also provides a wide variety of live sport, including
Premier League football, Formula 1 Grand Prix, Six Nations
rugby, and The Worthington Cup. Sports rights are secured
through our dealings with the likes of Octagon CSI and
TWI.
Broadcast
to all territories
Military Bases in Afghanistan,
the Ascension Islands, Belize, Bosnia, Canada (Goose Bay),
Croatia, Cyprus, Germany, Gibraltar, The Falkland Islands,
Iraq, Italy (Naples), Kosovo, Kuwait, Macedonia, Norway,
and Oman.
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BFBS2 The
lads’ channel – specially designed for single
and unaccompanied personnel
in operational areas.
No families, no watershed – sporty, raunchy, edgy
and lots of comedy. A six-hour block is transmitted 4 times
to provide a rolling 24-hour service to suit all time-zones
and shift patterns.
This is where you’ll find The Simpsons, Scottish
Premier
League, Mile High, Son of the Beach, Stargate and Graham
Norton.
THE HITS The Hits is packed full of music videos; short-form programmes and star appearances.
SKY NEWS An
alternative news source 24 hours a day.
Broadcast
by Direct-To-Home (DTH) or cable to:
Military bases in Afghanistan, Bosnia, Croatia, Nicosia
in Cyprus, The Falkland Islands, Iraq, Kosovo, Kuwait, Macedonia,
Oman and suitably-equipped HM Ships.
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BFBS
provides:
 A
source of English language TV
A link with home
Continuity – if
you get posted from Cyprus to Germany you won’t miss an
episode of your favourite drama.
Information – we
produce Forces Action welfare films and announcements; command
information; promos and trailers; cinema
guides; Forces Diary; crimestoppers, health, and drug awareness,
etc, especially for our military audience.
News – as well as relaying British news bulletins
from BBC and ITN, we produce our own BFBS Reports half-hour news
magazine twice a week, live from our own studio, with reporters
and crews in all major overseas bases, and on the frontline in
any conflict.
In-house productions– documentaries such as Geri
Halliwell’s concert for 11,000 troops in the desert in Oman;
makeover series on military quarters and gardens; fly-on-the-wall
of the Skillforce initiative in inner city schools; days out for
families in Germany and Cyprus.
Children’s TV –
from our own studio, Room 785 is two hours of live, interactive
kids TV each day, with birthdays, competitions, texts and emails
from the Forces ‘family’ around the world.
Messages home– first there were ‘blueys’,
the airmail letters troops send home, then e-blueys, now TV Blueys
– the messages we film from troops to home, and from families
to troops. These are hugely valued as the only means of seeing
and hearing loved ones alive and well. We screened over 800 TV
Blueys during the Iraqi conflict alone.
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BFBS1, for family viewing, and where you will find all soaps
BFBS2, the lad's channel. Edgy, raunchy and lots of comedy.
Sport on BFBS TV - we bring you all the sporting highlights.
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