BBC Urdu

BBC Urdu
بی بی سی اردو
TypeRadio network and website
Country
AvailabilityInternational
EndowmentForeign and Commonwealth Office, UK
OwnerBBC
Launch date
May 1940
Official website
www.bbc.com/urdu/
LanguageUrdu

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. The radio service was broadcast from Broadcasting House in London and Pakistan as well as from a BBC South and East Asia bureau in New Delhi, India. It also has a children’s channel CBeebies. The target audience were Pakistani and Indian viewers.[2][3]

  1. ^ "After nearly two decades, BBC Urdu ends its radio news bulletins in Pakistan". Arab News PK. 31 December 2022.
  2. ^ "بی بی سی اردو کے شائقین ایک کروڑ سے زیادہ". 11 February 2015.
  3. ^ Adams, Paul C.; Craine, Jim (23 March 2016). The Routledge Research Companion to Media Geography. Routledge. p. 60. ISBN 978-1-317-04282-2. Letters received from listeners to BBC's Urdu Services in Pakistan and Northern India (and now archived in the BBC's Written Archive Centre) reveal similar spatial variations in the reception of specific BBC broadcasts.