BBC World News

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TV station ( public service )
Program type Division program (information)
reception terrestrial , cable , satellite , satellite radio , IPTV , Internet TV
Start of transmission March 11, 1991
owner British Broadcasting Corporation
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Another variant of the current station logo

BBC World News (HD) is the BBC's English language television channel . It broadcasts a 24-hour program with international news and documentaries.

It started broadcasting on March 11, 1991 as BBC World Service Television , and from October 26, 1995 as BBC World together with the English television broadcaster BBC Prime . Since April 21, 2008, the station has been operating under the name BBC World News .

BBC World News is broadcast digitally via satellite ( DVB-S ) and in Germany and Austria can also be received in some cases via cable analogue or as part of program bouquets. In Berlin, the program was also broadcast terrestrially between 1995 and March 2007 (analogue until 2003 and via DVB-T until March 5, 2007 ). Since May 12, 2010 the program in Leipzig can be received terrestrially via DVB-T.

The European HD offshoot of the program on April 1, 2015 to the Astra satellite switched and which since June 30, 2015 cable television network of Unitymedia fed unencrypted. At the beginning of 2020, HD broadcasting was stopped again at the request of the BBC and the SD channel was switched on.

The international broadcaster is operated independently by the BBC and is not to be financed from broadcasting fees, but from advertising revenues, as the British TV license may only be used for broadcasters that can only be received in Great Britain. In turn, BBC World News can even be received in Great Britain if the satellite dish is aligned with the European Astra satellite.

After the station had previously broadcast from the BBC Television Center in London, production began on January 14, 2013 in the Broadcasting House (also in London), which includes a large newsroom and several television and radio studios.

Overnight (between 01:00 and 4:30 GMT) the first half an hour is produced together with the British news channel BBC News , so that the same thing is broadcast on both channels (for technical reasons, BBC World has always broadcast this BBC News since April 2008 News produced). Different programs are broadcast in the remaining half an hour.

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BBC America  • BBC Canada  • BBC Brit  • BBC Earth  • BBC First  • CBeebies  • BBC Entertainment  • BBC Lifestyle  • BBC Arabic Television  •
BBC Persian Television  • BBC World News  • BBC Knowledge  • BBC UKTV (Australia and New Zealand) • BBC HD

Joint venture:

Animal Planet  • UKTV (United Kingdom and Ireland)

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BBC Choice  • BBC Food  • BBC Japan  • BBC Kids (Canada) • BBC Knowledge (UK) • People + Arts  • BBC Prime  • BBC Three  • BBC TV Europe  • BBC World Service Television  • BBC 2W  • BBC Two Scotland

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