{"id":27672,"date":"2017-08-22T07:06:04","date_gmt":"2017-08-22T11:06:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=27672"},"modified":"2017-08-22T07:06:04","modified_gmt":"2017-08-22T11:06:04","slug":"bbc-world-service-launches-first-of-12-new-language-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/bbc-world-service-launches-first-of-12-new-language-services\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC World Service launches first of 12 new language services"},"content":{"rendered":"

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(Source: BBC Media Centre<\/a>)<\/p>\n

The BBC World Service today launched the first new language service in its biggest expansion since the 1940s.<\/strong><\/p>\n

A digital Pidgin service for West Africa is being launched today. It will shortly be followed by new online services in Amharic, Afaan Oromo and Tigrinya, aimed at Ethiopia, Eritrea and diaspora audiences around the world. Further services, including Korean, are set to launch from this autumn. This expansion means BBC News will operate in more than 40 languages.<\/p>\n

The BBC World Service expansion comes thanks to a funding boost of \u00a3289m from the UK Government.<\/p>\n

Director-General of the BBC Tony Hall says: \u201cToday marks the start of a new chapter for the BBC.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe BBC World Service is one of the UK\u2019s most important cultural exports. In a world of anxieties about \u2018fake news\u2019, where media freedom is being curtailed rather than expanded, the role of an independent, impartial news provider is more important than ever. The new services we\u2019re launching will reach some of the most under-served audiences in the world.\u201d<\/p>\n

World Service Director Francesca Unsworth says: \u201cFor more than 80 years the BBC World Service has brought trusted news to people across the globe. I\u2019m delighted that millions in West and then East Africa will be able to access the BBC in the languages they speak.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe BBC World Service expansion will also bring benefits to audiences in the UK. Having more journalists on the ground will enrich our international reporting, bringing news from areas which are often under-reported.\u201d<\/p>\n

Pidgin is spoken by an estimated 75m people in Nigeria alone, with additional speakers in Cameroon, Ghana, and Equatorial Guinea.<\/p>\n

The Pidgin service is fully digital featuring six daily editions of BBC Minute – a 60-second audio news update – followed by two daily news video bulletins in November. Two further services for West Africa – Yoruba and Igbo – will launch at the beginning of next year.<\/p>\n

The Amharic, Afaan Oromo and Tigrinya services will launch online and on dedicated Facebook pages next month. This will be followed later in the year with shortwave radio services in each language, consisting of a 15-minute news and current affairs programme, followed by a 5-minute Learning English programme, from Monday-Friday.<\/p>\n

Notes to Editors
\nThe BBC World Service is launching in 12 new languages – Afaan Oromo, Amharic, Gujarati, Igbo, Korean, Marathi, Pidgin, Punjabi, Serbian, Telugu, Tigrinya, and Yoruba.<\/p>\n

See: https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/pidgin<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Read this article at the BBC Media Centre website.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Source: BBC Media Centre) The BBC World Service today launched the first new language service in its biggest expansion since the 1940s. A digital Pidgin service for West Africa is being launched today. It will shortly be followed by new online services in Amharic, Afaan Oromo and Tigrinya, aimed at Ethiopia, Eritrea and diaspora audiences […]<\/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":[56,960,3,43],"tags":[104,327],"class_list":["post-27672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasters","category-international-broadcasting","category-news","category-shortwave-radio","tag-bbc","tag-bbc-world-service"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-7ck","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":22247,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/bbc-world-service-to-launch-11-new-language-services\/","url_meta":{"origin":27672,"position":0},"title":"BBC World Service to launch 11 new language services","author":"Thomas","date":"November 17, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"(Source: BBC News) The BBC World Service will launch 11 new language services as part of its biggest expansion \"since the 1940s\", the corporation has announced. 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