īy the end of the 1940s the number of languages broadcast had expanded and reception had improved following the opening of a relay in modern day Malaysia and of the Limassol relay, Cyprus, in 1957. George Orwell broadcast many news bulletins on the Eastern Service during World War II. The External Services broadcast propaganda during the Second World War. These broadcasting services, FINANCED not from the domestic licence fee but from government grant-in-aid (from the Foreign Office budget), were known administratively as the External Services of the BBC. As a result, the Empire Service was renamed the BBC Overseas Service in November 1939, and a dedicated BBC European Service was added in 1941. German programmes commenced on 29 March 1938 and by the end of 1942 broadcasts were being made in all major European languages. On 3 January 1938, the first foreign-language service, Arabic, was launched. The programmes will neither be very interesting nor very good." This address was read out five times as it was broadcast live to different parts of the world. The Director General, Sir John Reith (later Lord Reith) said in the opening programme: "Don't expect too much in the early days for some time we shall transmit comparatively simple programmes, to give the best chance of intelligible reception and provide evidence as to the type of material most suitable for the service in each zone. In his first Christmas Message, King George V stated that the service was intended for "men and women, so cut off by the snow, the desert, or the sea, that only voices out of the air can reach them." First hopes for the Empire Service were low. The BBC World Service began as the BBC Empire Service in 1932 as a shortwave service aimed principally at English speakers in the outposts of the British Empire.
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