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The British Forces Broadcasting Service ( BFBS) provides radio and television programmes for His Majesty's Armed Forces, and their dependents worldwide. Editorial control is independent of the Ministry of Defence and the armed forces themselves. [3] It was established by the British War Office (now the Ministry of Defence) in 1943.
BFBS Live Events. BFBS Live Events (formerly Combined Services Entertainment ( CSE) until 2 March 2020 [1]) is the live entertainment arm of the British Forces Broadcasting Service (BFBS) (and prior to March 2020 the Services Sound and Vision Corporation (SSVC), a registered British charity). It is the official provider of live entertainment to ...
The Services Sound and Vision Corporation ( SSVC) was a British registered charity. [2] Set up in 1982 from the merger of the Services Kinema Corporation (SKC) and the British Forces Broadcasting Service (BFBS) to "entertain and inform Britain's Armed Forces around the world", [3] its activities included the British Forces Broadcasting Service ...
British Forces Germany ( BFG) was the generic name for the three services of the British Armed Forces, made up of service personnel, UK Civil Servants, and dependents (family members), based in Germany. [ 1] It was established following the Second World War, the largest parts of it becoming known as the British Army of the Rhine (BAOR) and RAF ...
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster headquartered at Broadcasting House in London, England. Originally established in 1922 as the British Broadcasting Company, it evolved into its current state with its current name on New Year's Day 1927. The oldest and largest local and global broadcaster by ...
The service continued broadcasting by shortwave to areas that were still seeing fighting, and after Victory over Japan Day to occupying forces in each former occupied and enemy country. As Britain began to disengage from each fighting area and civilian rule was finally restored and the soldiers demobbed , the reason for the existence of the General Forces Programme faded.
Commander British Forces Cyprus (CBF) and Administrator of the Sovereign Base Areas is a two-star appointment, alternating every three years between a British Army major-general and a Royal Air Force air vice-marshal. Consequently, the Chief of Staff British Forces Cyprus (COS) is a one-star appointment from the opposite service of the commander.
15 (United Kingdom) Psychological Operations Group was a tri-service, or "purple", military unit formerly parented by 1 Military Intelligence Brigade but from April 2014, part of the Security Assistance Group within the British Army's Force Troops Command. [ 1] Since April 2015, it has been subsumed into 77th Brigade [ 2][ 3][ 4] within 6th ...