United Kingdom Communications
Telephone
Mobile Telephone
Internet
Post
Post office hours: Mon-Fri 0900-1730 and Sat 0900-1230, although some post offices are open much longer hours.
Media
Press
• Broadsheets are The Daily Telegraph, The Financial Times, The Guardian, The Independent, The Observer (on Sunday) and The Times.
• The more popular tabloid newspapers are The Daily Express, The Daily Mail, The Daily Mirror and The Sun.
• Most papers have an associated Sunday newspaper, though there are some independents.
• There are also daily regional newspapers.
• The London Evening Standard is produced in several editions daily, the first being at midday.
TV
• BBC TV operates BBC1, BBC2 and digital services including BBC News 24 and BBC World, a commercially-funded international news channel.
• ITV is a major commercial network, organised around regional franchises.
• Channel 4 is a commercially funded but publicly owned national station.
• Five is a national commercial channel.
• Independent Television News (ITN) supplies news to ITV and Channel 4.
• British Sky Broadcasting (BSkyB) operates digital satellite TV platform, Sky, and provides film, entertainment channels and news channel Sky News.
• There are many other privately owned TV channels.
Radio
• BBC Radio also has regional broadcasts (see individual country sections).
• BBC Asian Network targets Asian communities in the UK.
• BBC World Service can be heard worldwide via shortwave and increasingly on FM relays; it has programmes in more than 40 languages.
• Commercial stations include music station Virgin Radio, sports station Talk Sport and classical music station Classic FM.
• There are hundreds of privately owned radio stations.
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