BBC World

BBC World is the chain of international information uninterrupted of BBC, launched in 1995.

Currently, BBC World is the most looked at chain network BBC with an audience of 76 million televiewers per week. It is available in more than 281 million hearths through 270 countries.

History of the chain

BBC World was launched in 1991 pennies title BBC World Service Television. However, contrary to network BBC World Radio operator Service, financed by public funds, the chain BBC World is not subsidized by the British government but car its incomes of publicity. Diffused at the origin only in Asia and with the the Middle East, BBC World Service Television extends to the Africa since 1992.

BBC World itself was inaugurated in 1995, after the scission of BBC World Service Television in two entities: BBC Precedes - a chain with toll of entertainment - and the free channel of information BBC World . This same year, BBC World with started to be diffused in Europe.

In June 2006, BBC World and Discovery Channel signed a Partenariat which marks the launching of the chain to the the United States.

BBC World account today more than 250 journalists and 58 international offices.

In October 1998, 2002 and 2006 BBC World is named better chain of information to HOTBIRDTM Awards.

Diffusion

The chain is retransmise via the network Red Bee Media, since a center of diffusion installed in the Village Media BBC, with White City, in the west of London. The news bulletins are carried out with the Television Center , where BBC World has of a newspaper office and a studio distinct from the remainder from BBC News. This newspaper office functions of 05:00 to 00:30 in week and 06:00 to 00:30 the weekend. The relay is taken, in the interval, by domestic network BBC News 24.
BBC World is available in 281 million hearths, 13 million hotel rooms, 48 cruising ships, 37 airline companies and 29 platforms mobile.

Programs

If BBC World gives the priority to information, it diffuses also other programs devoted to the cinema or the voyages, as well as documentary general practitioners. The following programs are indicate per hour English hour:

Programs of information on line:

BBC News is the programme of information during half an hour and diffuses every hour on BBC World .
The World Today diffused with 05:00, is a one hour emission of information devoted to the business and the sport. The bulletin is presented by Lucy Hockings and Sally Bundock.
World News Today diffused with 12:00 and 21:00. The emission was launched in July 2006 to mark the entry of BBC World in the United States. The edition of 12:00, presented by George Alagiah, is intended to collect the American audience per hour of the breakfast. The edition of 21:00 was launched on September 18th, 2006. It is presented by Nik Gowing and is intended for the European public. The two programs include an edition of the World Business Carryforward .
The World diffused with 20:00, is a programme of 27 minutes of in-depth analysis of information of the day, presented by Zeinab Badawi.

economic Programs of information:

World Business Carryforward - international economic Information. Emissions on line all the day of 05:00 to 23:00. The edition of 22:30 is presented from London and New York.
Asia Business Carryforward - Diffused on line since Singapoure on the Asian unhooking of BBC World .
Middle East Business Carryforward - Diffused the remote weekend.

Other programs on line:

Asia Today - Program of information dedicated to Asia. Diffused 3 times per day since the world newspaper office.
Sport Today - international sporting Information. Diffused 5 times per day.

Programs diffused remotely:

HARDtalk - talks opposite with face
Click - new technologies
Fast Track - voyage
Talking Movies - cinema
This Week - analyzes events of the previous week

Moreover, one half an hour special version of the program of BBC Two , Top GEAR is diffused the weekend, like the other documentary ones of the BBC , such as Holidays in the Danger Zone . Certain programs are carried out especially for local unhookings of BBC World . In India, the televiewers can thus view special programs, like Question Time India , Quiz show University Challenge India , India Business Carryforward , IT India Tomorrow or Face to Face .

Reputation and criticisms

The chain BBC World is famous for its independence and the objectivity of its analysis of information and the various facts. Single commercial chain of the public network BBC, the particular status of BBC World however nourished interrogations as for the risk of influence of the advertisers on the leading line. No example of pressure however was highlighted for the time being.

Censure

The diffusion of BBC World is prohibited today in several countries because of the cover of unfavourable information to the capacity in place. The chain is thus censured in Ouzbékistan , with the Zimbabwe and in China .

External bonds

Official site
Site of the BBC

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