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BBC Urdu
بی بی سی اردو
TypeRadio network and website
Country
AvailabilityInternational
EndowmentForeign and Commonwealth Office, UK
OwnerBBC
Launch date
1941
Official website
www.bbc.com/urdu/
LanguageUrdu

BBC Urdu (Template:Lang-ur) is a digital television station covering India and Pakistan in Urdu language. 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 & East Asia bureau in New Delhi. It also has a children’s channel CBeebies. The target audience were Pakistanis & Indian viewers.[1]

On December 30, 2022, after almost two decades of operation, BBC Pakistan stopped its Urdu Radio.[2][3]

Programs

See also

References

  1. ^ "بی بی سی اردو کے شائقین ایک کروڑ سے زیادہ". 11 February 2015.
  2. ^ "بی بی سی اردو ریڈیو کی آخری نشریات". BBC News اردو (in Urdu). 31 December 2022. Retrieved 31 December 2022.
  3. ^ "BBC ends Urdu Radio service in Pakistan after nearly 2 decades". Daily Pakistan Global. 31 December 2022. Retrieved 31 December 2022.