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16 January 1995
- Launched on 11 March 1991 as BBC World Service Television outside Europe, its name was changed to BBC World on 16 January 1995 and to BBC World News on 21 April 2008 and again to BBC News (International) on 3 April 2023 after its consolidation with the domestic BBC News Channel.
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BBC World started broadcasting on Monday, 16 January 1995 at 19:00 GMT and became a 24-hour English free-to-air international news channel. BBC Prime started broadcasting on Monday, 30 January 1995 at 19:00 GMT and became the BBC's light entertainment channel, later renamed BBC Entertainment.
The BBC World Service began on 19 December 1932 as the BBC Empire Service, broadcasting on shortwave [14] and aimed principally at English speakers across the British Empire.
26 January – BBC World Service Television is renamed BBC World and is launched as an international free-to-air news channel at 19:00 GMT. 31 March – French programming ends. 1 April – Kazakh and Kyrgyz programming begins.
International TV broadcasts in English began in 1991 with World Service TV, which became BBC World TV in 1996 and is now called BBC World News.
This is a timeline of the history of the BBC Television Service, from events preceding its launch in 1936 until its renaming as BBC1 in 1964 upon the launch of BBC2. 1920s. 1929. November – The BBC and John Logie Baird begin daily experimental broadcasting of 30-line television transmissions using the BBC's 2LO transmitter. [1][2] 1930s.
Feb 26, 2016 · In 1995 it re-launched as BBC World before changing its name to BBC World News in 2008 and moving to a new 24-hour multi-platform building dubbed 'the world's news room' in 2013.
2008 - BBC World changes its name to BBC World News and brings the channel closer to the BBC’s TV, radio, online and newsgathering teams.
