BBC News Punjabi
Country | India Pakistan United Kingdom Australia New Zealand Canada United States European Union Malaysia Singapore Middle East |
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Broadcast area | worldwide |
Network | BBC World Service |
Headquarters | Delhi |
Programming | |
Language(s) | Punjabi |
Picture format | 1080i HDTV (downscaled to 16:9 576i for the SDTV feed) |
Ownership | |
Owner | BBC |
Sister channels | BBC News BBC Urdu BBC Gujarati BBC Bangla BBC World Service |
History | |
Launched | 2 October 2017 |
Links | |
Website | bbc |
Availability | |
Streaming media | |
BBC Punjabi | BBC Punjabi online |
BBC Punjabi (in Punjabi: ਬੀਬੀਸੀ ਪੰਜਾਬੀ (Gurmukhi), بی بی سی پنجابی (Shahmukhi)) or BBC News Punjabi is an international news service in Punjabi language. It was started on 2 October 2017. The service is on websites and social networking sites. The launch is part of the World Service's biggest expansion since the 1940s, following a government funding boost announced in 2016.
Broadcast area
Target audiences are Punjabis from India, Pakistan and other western countries with significant Punjabi population like Canada, Britain and Australia. According to BBC' s official website Punjabi language spoken by 100 million people, the 11th most used language in the world.
See also
External links
- BBC World News shows
- BBC News
- British Indian mass media
- British Pakistani mass media
- Mass media in Punjab, India
- Punjabi-language television channels
- Punjabi-language television channels in India
- Punjabi-language television channels in Pakistan
- BBC World Service foreign language
- Radio stations established in 2017
- Television channels and stations established in 2017