Radio BFBS Gibraltar

BFBS Radio broadcasts on local FM and other frequencies, and since April 2009 on DAB Digital Radio in the UK. There are now three BFBS Radio services available in various parts of the "Forces World":

BFBS Radio - Contemporary music and Forces Community Radio

BFBS Radio Alternative Listening - popular music, news, current affairs and sport. BFBS Gurkha Radio - programming for Gurkhas

BFBS Radio broadcasts to service personnel, their families and friends all over the world with local radio studios in Afghanistan, Belize, Belgium, Bosnia, Brunei, Canada, Cyprus, Germany, Gibraltar, The Falkland Islands, Kosovo, The Netherlands and Northern Ireland. In addition, BFBS radio is heard by troops in Oman, Iraq and Ascension Island as well as onboard Royal Navy ships at sea via live satellite links, on the World Wide Web at BFBS.com/Radio and on Sky Digital channel 0211, via a Eurobird 1 transponder.

BFBS Radio is a music, news, entertainment and community service providing bespoke content to the global Forces Community with a focus on Forces News and connecting the Forces communities with around the world.

Many of the programmes on BFBS Radio Alternative Listening are sourced from BBC Radio 4 and BBC Radio Five Live, including the soap opera The Archers, which was popular in Hong Kong until BFBS Radio ceased broadcasting after the handover to China in 1997. BFBS Radio also provides programmes in Gurkhali, for the Gurkha units serving with the British Army.

At midnight on Saturday 12 January 2008, BFBS Radio began a trial period of broadcasting nationwide across the UK on DAB, which ran until 23:59 on 31 March 2008. Audience research carried out during the trial concluded that it was successful, and following a restructure of BFBS Radio in early 2009, BFBS Radio now broadcasts nationally on DAB Digital Radio.