Position | Satellite | Beam EIRP (dBW) | Frequency | System | SR FEC | Encryption | Packages | Lang. | Source | |
26.0°E | Badr 4 | BSS 0 | 12073 H | DVB-S2 8PSK MPEG-4 HD | 27500 3/4 | Eng | M Mahmoud Arabsat 170710 | |||
7.0°W | Nilesat 201 | Middle East 0 | 11766 H | DVB-S MPEG-2 | 27500 5/6 | Eng | S Newman 080407 |
The channel originally started as BBC World Service Television and was a commercial operation. The British government refused to fund to the new television service using grant-in-aid. (BBC World Service radio was funded by a grant-in-aid from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office until 2014.) The channel started broadcasting on 11 March 1991, after two weeks of real-time pilots, initially as a half-hour bulletin once a day at 19:00 GMT.
In 1995, BBC World Service Television was split into two services:
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BBC World News is the BBC’s international news and current affairs television channel. It has the largest audience of any channel, with an estimated 99 million viewers weekly in 2015/16, part of the estimated 265 million users of the BBC’s four main international news services.Launched on 11 March 1991 as BBC World Service Television outside Europe, its name was changed to BBC World on 16 January 1995 and to BBC World News on 21 April 2008. It broadcasts news bulletins, documentaries, lifestyle programmes and interview shows. Unlike the BBC’s domestic channels, BBC World News is owned and operated by BBC Global News Ltd., part of the BBC’s commercial group of companies, and is funded by subscription and advertising revenues, and not by the United Kingdom television licence. It is not owned by BBC Studios.
BBC World started broadcasting on Monday, 16 January 1995 at 19:00 GMT and became a 24-hour English free-to-air international news channel.
BBC Prime started broadcasting on Monday, 30 January 1995 at 19:00 GMT and became the BBC’s light entertainment channel, later renamed BBC Entertainment.
BBC Prime started broadcasting on Monday, 30 January 1995 at 19:00 GMT and became the BBC’s light entertainment channel, later renamed BBC Entertainment.
BBC World’s on-air design was changed significantly on 3 April 2000, bringing it closer to the look of its sister channel in the UK which was then known as BBC News 24, the on-air look of which had been redesigned in 1999.The look of both channels was made up of red and cream and designed by Lambie-Nairn, with music based on a style described as ‘drums and beeps’ composed by David Lowe, a departure from the general orchestral nature of music used by other news programmes.
On 8 December 2003 a second makeover, using the same ‘drums and beeps’ style music but new graphics took place, although on a much smaller scale to that of 2000. The music was changed slightly while the main colour scheme became black and red, with studios using frosted glass and white and red colours. Later in 2004, the channel’s slogan became Putting News First, replacing Demand a Broader View.
The channel’s present name -BBC World News- was introduced on 21 April 2008 as part of a £550,000 rebranding of the BBC’s overall news output and visual identity. BBC World News later moved to the renovated studio vacated by BBC News 24 (now the BBC News Channel). New graphics were produced by the Lambie-Nairn design agency and music reworked by David Lowe.
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