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BBC Urdu (Urdu: بی بی سی اردو) is a digital television station covering the Indian subcontinent in the Urdu language. [1] It was the Urdu language station of the BBC World Service, accompanied by its website, which served as a news portal and provided online access to radio broadcasts.
In 2014, BBC started broadcasting the programme on Aaj TV under a partnership agreement. [2] In January 2021, BBC Urdu stopped broadcasting the programme on Aaj TV and terminated the agreement, citing interference with their editorial policy as one of the reasons, and moved distribution of the programme to YouTube and other online platforms. [3]
BBC World Service Logo used since 2022 Type Radio broadcasting news, speech, discussions, public broadcaster Country United Kingdom Availability Worldwide Headquarters Broadcasting House, London Broadcast area Worldwide Owner BBC Key people Jonathan Munro Launch date 19 December 1932 ; 92 years ago (1932-12-19) Former names BBC Empire Service BBC Overseas Service External Services of the BBC ...
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.
BBC News provides television journalism to BBC network bulletins (on BBC One and BBC Two) and programmes as well as the BBC News Channel available around the world and in the United Kingdom. BBC News runs BBC Radio 5 Live and BBC World Service as part of its rolling news coverage, journalists and presenters also contribute to podcasts produced ...
"Abidi long remained associated with the BBC Urdu Service. There seems to have been an understanding between the BBC and South Asia as each time it was the BBC which had a project in store for him. And each time it was a journey in a different manner." [3] Jernaili Sadak (Grand Trunk Road) – Sang-e-Meel Publications, Lahore (1986) [3]
The BBC Urdu service began its radio service back in 1940, when it was known as 'BBC Hindustani', launched to mitigate wartime misinformation. Following the Partition of India, it was renamed to 'BBC Urdu', and continued until 2022 after which it was discontinued. [28] [29] Many other radio stations in Urdu are broadcast throughout the UK.
Durdana Ansari, OBE – spent 22 years producing, directing, and interviewing personalities for the following BBC World Service programmes: The World Today, Asian Network (Urdu), Outlook, Meridian, English Teaching Programme and BBC Urdu Service. Currently an entrepreneur, public speaker and activist for female empowerment.