{"id":27402,"date":"2017-08-03T07:08:42","date_gmt":"2017-08-03T11:08:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=27402"},"modified":"2017-08-03T07:08:42","modified_gmt":"2017-08-03T11:08:42","slug":"bbc-news-adds-daily-newscasts-in-telugu-gujarati-punjabi-and-marathi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/bbc-news-adds-daily-newscasts-in-telugu-gujarati-punjabi-and-marathi\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC News adds daily newscasts in Telugu, Gujarati, Punjabi and Marathi"},"content":{"rendered":"

\""India<\/a><\/p>\n

Many thanks to SWLing Post<\/em> contributor, Jonathan Marks<\/a>, who shares the following article from Rediff News<\/a>\u00a0in which\u00a0Jim Egan, CEO, BBC Global News, tells Vanita Kohli-Khandekar about the addition of\u00a0daily newscasts in Telugu, Gujarati, Punjabi and Marathi:<\/p>\n

[…]Delhi is by far the BBC’s number one international bureau with over 120 people. This will more than double to 300 by autumn as the language expansion begins.<\/p>\n

The BBC is all set to produce daily newscasts in Telugu, Gujarati, Punjabi and Marathi (in addition to the existing Hindi, Tamil and Urdu), which will be distributed through local TV partners.<\/p>\n

It will also be expanding its online presence in these languages.<\/p>\n

“A lot of people in India tell us ‘My grandfather used to watch the BBC.’ But we don’t want to be remembered by what we were, but what we are,” says Egan.[…]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Click here to read the full interview at Rediff News<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Jonathan Marks, who shares the following article from Rediff News\u00a0in which\u00a0Jim Egan, CEO, BBC Global News, tells Vanita Kohli-Khandekar about the addition of\u00a0daily newscasts in Telugu, Gujarati, Punjabi and Marathi: […]Delhi is by far the BBC’s number one international bureau with over 120 people. This will more than double […]<\/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":false,"_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":[56,3],"tags":[104,2763,246],"class_list":["post-27402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasters","category-news","tag-bbc","tag-india","tag-jonathan-marks"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-77Y","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":27402,"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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