Funding for these services - known administratively as the External Services of the BBC - came not from the domestic licence-fee but from government grant-in-aid (from the Foreign Office budget).News and information is available in these languages on the BBC website, with many having RSS feeds and specific versions for use on mobile devices, and some also offer email notification of stories.In addition to the English service, 18 of the language services broadcast a radio service using the short wave, AM or FM bands.The English service is also available on digital radio in the UK and Europe.Traditionally, the Service relied on shortwave broadcasts, because of their ability to overcome barriers of censorship, distance, and spectrum scarcity.Broadcasts in Dutch, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese and Malay stopped for similar reasons.On 25 October 2005, the BBC announced that broadcasts in Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Greek, Hungarian, Kazakh, Polish, Slovak, Slovene and Thai would end by March 2006, to finance the launch in 2007 of television news-services in Arabic and Persian.The controller of BBC World Service English is Mary Hockaday.and aimed principally at English-speakers across the British Empire.The External Services broadcast propaganda during the Second World War of 1939-1945.Its French service Radio Londres also sent coded messages to the French Resistance.
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