BBC World

BBC World is the BBC’s commercially funded international news and information television channel, broadcasting in English 24 hours a day. It can be seen in 260 million homes in over 200 countries and territories. Of these, 113 million households can receive the channel on a 24-hour basis. In addition, it is also carried in more than a million hotel rooms and on 18 airlines and 21 cruise ships.

BBC World provides news, business and sport and explains not only what is happening but why. The channel’s hourly news programmes offer unmatched, impartial, in-depth analysis of breaking news and events of global importance. Through World Business Report and Middle East Business Report, BBC World covers the most important financial, economic and company stories, while Sports Today rounds up the results and news from a wide variety of different sports.

In addition to its news bulletins, BBC World also broadcasts the best of the BBC’s lifestyle and factual programming, including the weekly documentary strand The World Uncovered; Top Gear, for motoring fans; and the Imagination series on culture and the arts.

The daily interview programme HARDTALK grills leading newsmakers from politics, religion, sport and entertainment; and the weekly interactive discussion show Talking Point offers viewers the chance to submit questions to opinion formers.

The channel’s dedicated 24-hour fully digital newsroom and studio is located at BBC Television Centre in London. It forms part of the world’s largest and most trusted newsgathering organisation and draws on the resources of more than 250 BBC News correspondents and 58 international BBC News bureaux across the globe.

Web site : www.bbcworld.com