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The BBC World Service today announced its biggest expansion since the 1940s in a move designed to bring its independent journalism to millions more people around the world, including those in places where media freedom is under threat.
This includes the launch of four new Indian services -Telugu, Gujarati, Marathi and Punjabi – creating 157 new jobs in the region, and making Delhi the BBC’s largest bureau outside the UK.
Seven other language services will also launch as part of the expansion including: Afaan Oromo, Amharic, Igbo, Korean, Pidgin, Tigrinya, and Yoruba. This means the BBC World Service will be available in forty languages including English. The expansion will also mean more journalists on the ground in locations across the world.
The BBC World Service will also expand its digital services to offer more mobile and video content, a greater social media presence and new ways of reaching its audience around the globe.
The BBC also goes live today with a full digital service in Thai, following the success of the Facebook-only ‘pop-up’ service launched in 2014.
The expansion includes plans for the BBC to:
Launch mobile offers in new Indian languages combined with digital, TV and video outputProduce extended news bulletins in Russian, with regionalised versions for surrounding countries, a relaunched website, new digital formats and more journalists on the groundEnhance its television services across Africa, including over thirty new TV programmes for partner broadcasters across sub-Saharan AfricaEnhance the BBC Arabic offer by delivering new regional programming across the Arab worldBroadcast short-wave and medium-wave radio programmes aimed at audiences in the Korean peninsula, supplemented by digital content online and on social mediaInvest in World Service English, with new programmes, more original journalism, and a broader agendaContinue with the digital transformation of the BBC World Service, including new TV news bulletins, so that all forty languages will eventually have a video offer
BBC World Service announces biggest expansion since 1940
This includes the launch of four new Indian services -Telugu, Gujarati, Marathi and Punjabi – creating 157 new jobs in the region, and making Delhi the BBC’s largest bureau outside the UK.
Seven other language services will also launch as part of the expansion including: Afaan Oromo, Amharic, Igbo, Korean, Pidgin, Tigrinya, and Yoruba. This means the BBC World Service will be available in forty languages including English. The expansion will also mean more journalists on the ground in locations across the world.
The BBC World Service will also expand its digital services to offer more mobile and video content, a greater social media presence and new ways of reaching its audience around the globe.
The BBC also goes live today with a full digital service in Thai, following the success of the Facebook-only ‘pop-up’ service launched in 2014.
The expansion includes plans for the BBC to:
Launch mobile offers in new Indian languages combined with digital, TV and video outputProduce extended news bulletins in Russian, with regionalised versions for surrounding countries, a relaunched website, new digital formats and more journalists on the groundEnhance its television services across Africa, including over thirty new TV programmes for partner broadcasters across sub-Saharan AfricaEnhance the BBC Arabic offer by delivering new regional programming across the Arab worldBroadcast short-wave and medium-wave radio programmes aimed at audiences in the Korean peninsula, supplemented by digital content online and on social mediaInvest in World Service English, with new programmes, more original journalism, and a broader agendaContinue with the digital transformation of the BBC World Service, including new TV news bulletins, so that all forty languages will eventually have a video offer
BBC World Service announces biggest expansion since 1940
