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In 2008, the BBC announced the launch of the BBC Persian Television. It was launched in January 2009 and is based in BBC Broadcasting House, London. It complements the BBC's existing Persian-language radio and online services. It was initially broadcast for eight hours a day, seven days a week, from 17.00 to 01.00 hours – peak viewing time in ...
BBC Persian TV presenters Majid Afshar & Rana Rahimpoor, 2017. BBC Persian Television (Persian: تلویزیون فارسی بیبیسی Televizion-e Fârsi-ye BBC) is the BBC's Persian language news channel that was launched on 14 January 2009. [1] The service is broadcast by satellite and is also available online.
Rana Rahimpour (Persian: رعنا رحیمپور, born 9 January 1983) is an Iranian-British journalist who worked as the BBC Persian’s Lead Presenter and bilingual correspondent since 2008 until 2023.Rana Rahimpour married an Englishman in 2009 and has two children named Tara and Damon.
The BBC World Service began on 19 December 1932 as the BBC Empire Service, broadcasting on shortwave [25] and aimed principally at English speakers across the British Empire. In his first Christmas Message (1932), King George V characterised the service as intended for "men and women, so cut off by the snow, the desert, or the sea, that only ...
Sayyid Jamaluddin Mousavi (Persian: جمالالدین موسوی) is a BBC Persian TV presenter. [1] He started working for the BBC in 2001 as a journalist when he joined the BBC's Central Asia magazine in Iran and Afghanistan.
and "Live from London, you're watching The World Today on BBC News.", going into breaks, different to the "Live from London, this is BBC News." and "Around the world and across the UK this is BBC News." used for the BBC News-branded programmes. The Top of the Hours also has a coming-up section introducing lighter stories, that will be covered.
Nafiseh Kohnavard (Persian: نفیسه کوهنورد) is a multilingual correspondent who is focused on Middle East issues for BBC World Service/ BBC Persian.. She has covered the fight against Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, the siege of Sinjar, Iraq, where the terrorist group massacred thousands of people from the Yazidi, religious minority, and the battle between Islamic State and the ...
He is responsible for the launch of a BBC Persian television service for Iran which will be launched in 2008. Afagh joined BBC World Service in 1983. He worked as a producer and then editor in the Persian Service and as an editor in the Vietnamese Service. He set up the BBC Central Asian Service in 1994 and became Editor of Eurasia Region in 1999.