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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.
BBC Persian (Persian: بیبیسی فارسی) is the Persian language broadcast station and subsidiary of BBC World Service which conveys the latest political, social, economical and sport news relevant to Iran and the world. Its headquarters are in London, United Kingdom.
Commercially funded BBC Studios and BBC Global News, as well as state-funded BBC World Service operate and distribute these linear television services around the world. These services are not to be confused with the domestic channels operated in the United Kingdom and accessible in the Republic of Ireland.
This is a list of Persian-language television channels organized by country of origin. This list may include active and defunct channels. This list may include active and defunct channels. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
The BBC's international operations initially consisted of a single channel – BBC World Service Television. On Thursday, 26 January 1995 at 19:00 GMT this was split into two television stations: Launched Monday, 16 January 1995 at 19:00 GMT: 24-hour English free-to-air terrestrial international news channel named "BBC World" (now BBC World News).
BBC Persian Television original programming (1 P) Pages in category "Persian-language television stations" The following 58 pages are in this category, out of 58 total.
Note: BBC NI and UTV are based in Northern Ireland, RTÉ and Virgin Media Television in the Republic of Ireland. However all four are available to most viewers throughout the island of Ireland, with UTV now accepting advertising from the Republic and targeting some of its programmes specifically at viewers in the Republic.
A second station, based in Abadan in the south of the country, was established in 1960. [1] Its programming included quiz shows and American programmes dubbed into Persian, and appealed to an unsophisticated audience. [2] Habib Sabet, a Baháʼí who was one of Iran's major industrialists, was the founder of the first television station. [3]