BBC Afrique is a French-language BBC service covering the latest news in Africa and international affairs from Dakar and London.

Background and Format: BBC News was first broadcast in 1922, with a first television broadcast airing in 1948. BBC News is the news operation for the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC). The department is the world's largest broadcast news organisation and generates about 120 hours of radio and television output each day, as well as online news coverage. BBC journalists are located throughout the world, with the service maintaining 44 foreign news bureaus. The main UK news operation is based at New Broadcasting House in central London. Parliamentary coverage is produced and broadcast from studios in Millbank, Westminster. Production Company: BBC Schedule Times: An online schedule can be viewed here Target Audience: The BBC aims to deliver services of value to everyone in the UK. This means making sure that every household has convenient access to each relevant service, free at the point of use. The BBC also aims to provide output that serves and represents the UK, its nations, regions and its various diverse communities. Stats: We cannot issue audience figures due to contractual restraints, please visit BARB here.  Monthly Unique Users: The BBC are unable to disclose their Monthly Unique User figure. Ad Rates: The BBC are unable to advertise on their UK website. Advertising information for Global BBC websites can be found here. Tips for PRs: Pitches should be sent via email rather than over the phone. The GNS have deadlines at Breakfast, Mid- morning and Drivetime. BBC GNS (General News Service) is the desk that provides supplementary material to BBC local radio network. Best point of contact for local radio will always be the local station itself. Regional bulletins are produced by the local stations. Alternative email for GNS is news.gns@bbc.co.uk

Background and Format: BBC News was first broadcast in 1922, with a first television broadcast airing in 1948. BBC News is the news operation for the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC). The department is the world's largest broadcast news organisation and generates about 120 hours of radio and television output each day, as well as online news coverage. BBC journalists are located throughout the world, with the service maintaining 44 foreign news bureaus. The main UK news operation is based at New Broadcasting House in central London. Parliamentary coverage is produced and broadcast from studios in Millbank, Westminster. Production Company: BBC Schedule Times: An online schedule can be viewed here Target Audience: The BBC aims to deliver services of value to everyone in the UK. This means making sure that every household has convenient access to each relevant service, free at the point of use. The BBC also aims to provide output that serves and represents the UK, its nations, regions and its various diverse communities. Stats: We cannot issue audience figures due to contractual restraints, please visit BARB here.  Monthly Unique Users: The BBC are unable to disclose their Monthly Unique User figure. Ad Rates: The BBC are unable to advertise on their UK website. Advertising information for Global BBC websites can be found here. Tips for PRs: The BBC cannot accept traditional product press releases because the BBC cannot endorse products. The BBC will not carry out competitions. BBC News journalists generally work across all BBC formats - TV, Radio and Online

Background and Format: The BBC Russian Service is part of the BBC World Service's foreign language output. It began broadcasting on 26 March 1946. After 65 years, in March 2011 the service stopped broadcasting on medium and shortwave, and now publishes and broadcasts on the internet only.  Production Company: BBC Target Audience: Russian citizens in Russia.   Monthly Unique Users: The BBC are unable to disclose their Monthly Unique User figure.  Ad Rates: The BBC are unable to advertise on their UK website. Advertising information for Global BBC websites can be found at advertising.bbcworldwide.com  Tips for PRs: The BBC cannot accept traditional product press releases because the BBC cannot endorse products. The BBC will not carry out competitions.

Background and Format: BBC News was first broadcast in 1922, with a first television broadcast airing in 1948. BBC News is the news operation for the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC). The department is the world's largest broadcast news organisation and generates about 120 hours of radio and television output each day, as well as online news coverage. BBC journalists are located throughout the world, with the service maintaining 44 foreign news bureaus. The main UK news operation is based at New Broadcasting House in central London. Parliamentary coverage is produced and broadcast from studios in Millbank, Westminster. Production Company: BBC Schedule Times: An online schedule can be viewed here Target Audience: The BBC aims to deliver services of value to everyone in the UK. This means making sure that every household has convenient access to each relevant service, free at the point of use. The BBC also aims to provide output that serves and represents the UK, its nations, regions and its various diverse communities. Stats: We cannot issue audience figures due to contractual restraints, please visit BARB here.  Monthly Unique Users: The BBC are unable to disclose their Monthly Unique User figure. Ad Rates: The BBC are unable to advertise on their UK website. Advertising information for Global BBC websites can be found here. Tips for PRs: The BBC cannot accept traditional product press releases because the BBC cannot endorse products. The BBC will not carry out competitions. Many of the BBC's Science and Nature programmes are made at the BBC's Natural History Unit in Broadcasting House Bristol. It is dedicated to making television and radio programmes with a natural history or wildlife theme, especially nature documentaries.  

Background and Format: The BBC Turkish Service is part of the BBC World Service's foreign language output. Production Company: BBC Target Audience: Turkish citizens in Turkey. Monthly Unique Users: The BBC are unable to disclose their Monthly Unique User figure.  Ad Rates: The BBC are unable to advertise on their UK website. Advertising information for Global BBC websites can be found at advertising.bbcworldwide.com  Tips for PRs: The BBC cannot accept traditional product press releases because the BBC cannot endorse products. The BBC will not carry out competitions.

BBC News Online is the online presence for BBC News, it was launched in 1997 and is reported to be one of the most popular news websites in the United Kingdom. The BBC News website aims to provide the best of BBC News on the web and an unrivalled resource of authoritative fact and comment.

Background: BBC News was first broadcast in 1922, with a first television broadcast airing in 1948. BBC News is the news operation for the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC). The department is the world's largest broadcast news organisation and generates about 120 hours of radio and television output each day, as well as online news coverage. BBC journalists are located throughout the world, with the service maintaining 44 foreign news bureaus. The main UK news operation is based at New Broadcasting House in central London. Parliamentary coverage is produced and broadcast from studios in Millbank, Westminster. Target Audience: The BBC aims to deliver services of value to everyone in the UK. This means making sure that every household has convenient access to each relevant service, free at the point of use. The BBC also aims to provide output that serves and represents the UK, its nations, regions and its various diverse communities. Stats: We cannot issue audience figures due to contractual restraints, please visit BARB at www.barb.co.uk  Monthly Unique User figure: The BBC are unable to disclose their Monthly Unique User figure. Advertising Rates: The BBC are unable to advertise on their UK website. Advertising information for Global BBC websites can be found at advertising.bbcworldwide.com  Tips for PRs: The BBC cannot accept traditional product press releases because the BBC cannot endorse products. The BBC will not carry out competitions. BBC News journalists generally work across all BBC formats - TV, Radio and Online. BBC News is a 24 hour news service, for this reason, lead times are dependent on the story. The UK Specialist department is made up of several BBC departments including Education & Social Affairs, Health and Science & Nature.

Background and Format: The BBC News Business and Economics Unit aims to provide business and economics news to a national audience, available online.   Programme Maker/Production Company: BBC Target Audience: The BBC also aims to provide output that serves and represents the UK, its nations, regions and its various diverse communities. Stats: We cannot issue audience figures due to contractual restraints, please visit BARB here.    Tips for PRs: There is an informal meeting at 7:45am with Editors and key Correspondents about the main stories of the day At 9:00am there is an Editorial Meeting with other BBC Units about what is coming up, what information they have so far, etc. The Business & Economics Unit has a Staff Meeting at 10am, followed by a series of rolling discussions throughout the day. The bizplan@bbc.co.uk email address is the best point of contact for anyone wishing to get their story on the planning calendar and the forward planning stage at the BBC. Individual Editors should only be approached with top-level information. Top level is determined by whether the story goes beyond the simple, factual point - what bigger thing might it be covering. The BBC cannot accept traditional product press releases because the BBC cannot endorse products. The BBC will not carry out competitions. BBC News journalists generally work across all BBC formats - TV, Radio and Online. BBC News is a 24 hour news service, for this reason, lead times are dependent on the story. The UK Specialist department is made up of several BBC departments including Education & Social Affairs, Health and Science & Nature. For global business news and advice, the Twitter feed is www.twitter.com/BBCWorldBiz

Background and Format: BBC News was first broadcast in 1922, with a first television broadcast airing in 1948. BBC News is the news operation for the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC). The department is the world's largest broadcast news organisation and generates about 120 hours of radio and television output each day, as well as online news coverage. BBC journalists are located throughout the world, with the service mainining 44 foreign news bureauxs. The main UK news operation is based at New Broadcasting House in central London. Parlimentary coverage is produced and broadcast from studios in Millbank, Westminster. The BBC aims to deliver services of value to everyone in the UK. This means making sure that every household has convenient access to each relevant service, free at the point of use. The BBC also aims to provide output that serves and represents the UK, its nations, regions and its various diverse communities. Production Company: BBC Stats: We cannot issue audience figures due to contractual restraints, please visit BARB here. Monthly Unique Uses: The BBC are unable to disclose their Monthly Unique User figure. Ad Rates: The BBC are unable to advertise on their UK website. Advertising information for Global BBC websites can be found here. Tips for PRs: The BBC cannot accept traditional product press releases because the BBC cannot endorse products. The BBC will not carry out competitions. BBC News journalists generally work across all BBC formats - TV, Radio and Online. BBC News is a 24 hour news service, for this reason, lead times are dependent on the story. The UK Specialist department is made up of several BBC departments including Education & Social Affairs, Health and Science & Nature.