BBC World News

BBC World News is an English-language television stations in the BBC.

BBC World News from London sends a 24 - hour program with international news and documentaries.

Overnight ( 1:00 to 4:30 GMT), the first half hour, produced in association with the British news channel BBC News, so that on both channels the same is sent ( from studio technical reasons, this BBC News since April 2008 always by BBC World News produced). In the remaining half an hour each different programs are broadcast.

First broadcast was on 11 March 1991 as BBC World Service Television and was amended on 26 October 1995 in BBC World, together with the English TV channel BBC Prime. Since 21 April 2008 the station operates under the name BBC World News.

BBC World News is distributed via digital satellite (DVB -S) and in Germany and Austria to some extent in Wired or in the context of channel packages to receive. In Berlin the program between 1995 and March 2007 was also widespread terrestrial (until 2003 analogue and up to 5 March 2007 via DVB -T). Since May 12, 2010 in Leipzig, the program is terrestrial to receive via DVB -T.

The foreign station is operated by the BBC in a commercial and is not intended to be funded from the license fee, but to carry out advertising revenues because the British TV license for exclusively in the UK air channels may be used. BBC World News can in turn be received even in the UK if the satellite dish is aimed at the European Astra satellite.

After the transmitter had been sent from the BBC Television Centre in London, ( also London) has been produced since January 14, 2013, Broadcasting House, which houses a large newsroom as well as several television and radio studios, among others.