{"id":22247,"date":"2016-11-17T07:54:58","date_gmt":"2016-11-17T11:54:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=22247"},"modified":"2016-11-17T07:55:33","modified_gmt":"2016-11-17T11:55:33","slug":"bbc-world-service-to-launch-11-new-language-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/bbc-world-service-to-launch-11-new-language-services\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC World Service to launch 11 new language services"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/BBC-Headquarters.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8492\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/BBC-Headquarters.jpg\" alt=\"(Image source: BBC)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/BBC-Headquarters.jpg 640w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/BBC-Headquarters-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/BBC-Headquarters-100x56.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>(Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/entertainment-arts-37990220\" target=\"_blank\">BBC News<\/a>)<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The BBC World Service will launch 11 new language services as part of its biggest expansion &#8220;since the 1940s&#8221;, the corporation has announced.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/BBC-NewLanguageServices.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-22248\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/BBC-NewLanguageServices.png\" alt=\"bbc-newlanguageservices\" width=\"624\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/BBC-NewLanguageServices.png 624w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/BBC-NewLanguageServices-300x168.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 624px) 100vw, 624px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The expansion is a result of the funding boost announced by the UK government last year.<\/p>\n<p>The new languages will be Afaan Oromo, Amharic, Gujarati, Igbo, Korean, Marathi, Pidgin, Punjabi, Telugu, Tigrinya, and Yoruba.<\/p>\n<p>The first new services are expected to launch in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]The plans include the expansion of digital services to offer more mobile and video content and a greater social media presence.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday the BBC launches a full digital service in Thai, following the success of a Facebook-only &#8220;pop-up&#8221; service launched in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Other expansion plans include:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"story-body__unordered-list\">\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\">extended news bulletins in Russian, with regionalised versions for surrounding countries<\/li>\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\">enhanced television services across Africa, including more then 30 new TV programmes for partner broadcasters across sub-Saharan Africa<\/li>\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\">new regional programming from BBC Arabic<\/li>\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\">short-wave and medium-wave radio programmes aimed at audiences in the Korean peninsula, plus online and social media content<\/li>\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\">investment in World Service English, with new programmes, more original journalism, and a broader agenda<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The new language services mean the BBC World Service will be available in 40 languages, including English.<\/p>\n<p>Lord Hall has set a target for the BBC to reach 500 million people worldwide by its centenary in 2022.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/entertainment-arts-37990220\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to read the full article&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">In addition, Mike Terry, posted a link to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thetimes.co.uk\/edition\/comment\/london-calling-drpg22cs9\" target=\"_blank\">this Leading Article \u00a0from <em>The Times<\/em><\/a>\u00a0which focuses on the BBC expansion. This content is behind a paywall (though you can register to read two free items\u00a0per week) but here is an excerpt from the conclusion that I found\u00a0particularly interesting:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&#8220;The radio may seem an irrelevance in the age of the internet but it is the most intimate of the so-called mainstream media and as such poses a challenge to authoritarian rule. Radios are cheap, ubiquitous and can whisper truths under the bedcovers. There is nothing that dictators hate more than direct access to the ears of their subjects.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Indeed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Source: BBC News) The BBC World Service will launch 11 new language services as part of its biggest expansion &#8220;since the 1940s&#8221;, the corporation has announced. The expansion is a result of the funding boost announced by the UK government last year. The new languages will be Afaan Oromo, Amharic, Gujarati, Igbo, Korean, Marathi, Pidgin, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[56,960,3,43],"tags":[104,1562,327,1816,4082,5625],"class_list":["post-22247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasters","category-international-broadcasting","category-news","category-shortwave-radio","tag-bbc","tag-bbc-news","tag-bbc-world-service","tag-bbc-world-service-shortwave","tag-shortwave-radio","tag-the-times"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-5MP","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":27672,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/bbc-world-service-launches-first-of-12-new-language-services\/","url_meta":{"origin":22247,"position":0},"title":"BBC World Service launches first of 12 new language services","author":"Thomas","date":"August 22, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"(Source: BBC Media Centre) The BBC World Service today launched the first new language service in its biggest expansion since the 1940s. 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