BBC is a voluntary association of listeners, organized to provide a service of news, information, entertainment, and music, broadcast from central stations to local listeners, in Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and, through an international network, to listeners in other countries. The service is financed by national subsidy, and administered by a Board of Control, set up under the authority of Parliament. The broadcasts are organized on a regional basis, with twenty-nine stations linked in a national chain, and are issued at hours convenient to the majority of listeners, from 8 a.m. to midnight. Each regional station has its own programme, but the broadcasts are linked by a common chain of time, and by a chain of frequency. Broadcasting is carried on from forty-seven stations, in Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and from stations in the Irish Free State and in Scotland. The programmes include news, sport, and business summaries, technical information, music, and entertainments of wide variety. Health talks and medical bulletins are issued, and the broadcasts include cultural subjects and arts, travel talks, and broad speeches on affairs of national and international interest. In the summer months, broad speeches on agricultural matters are added to the programmes. The service reaches some 6,000,000 listeners, in an area of some 88,000 square miles. It is carried on continuously, weekdays and Sundays, except during a brief break at midnight. The hours are from 8 a.m. to midnight, Eastern Standard Time.
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