From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia BBC Bangla
BBC Bangla
BBC Bangla /
Type Radio network and website
Medium
BBC Bangla is broadcasting their programmes in three
Country United Kingdom
popular mediums; radio service, website & internet radio
Availability International and video service.
Owner BBC
Launch date 1941
Types of program
BBC Bangla mainly focuses on News based daily pro-
Official website BBC Bangla
gramme along with sports news. They also broadcast en-
tertainment programmes, news analysis, and discussion
BBC Bangla is a foreign language service of the BBC World
over Daily Newspapers lead news. In addition they broad-
Service.
cast programmes to reply mail, email and opinion of lis-
teners.
History
BBC Bangla was launched on October 11, 1941 with a Bangladesh Talk
15-minute programme under BBC World Service. It at-
Bangladesh talk is live programme of BBC Bangla service
tained a vast popularity among the Bengali community in
broadcast in association with Bangladeshi satellite chan-
Bangladesh and India especially in Bangladesh for trust-
nel Channel i. They made the scope for the general peo-
worthy news broadcast. Bengali speaking people all over
ple to ask their questions to concerned authority about
the world enjoy its broadcast program.
important issues.
BBC Bangla a foreign language service of the BBC
Broadcasting World Service is entertaining 13,000,000 Bengali speak-
The programmes of BBC Bangla are broadcast on the FM ing people around the world.
broadcasting, mediumwave and shortwave all over the
world. See also
It is broadcast from the headquarters at Bush House
BBC World Service
in London as well as from BBC Bureau in Dhaka, Kolkata
BBC Nepali
& Delhi.
External links
• BBC Bangla at BBC Online
Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=BBC_Bangla&oldid=428271442"
Categories:
• Radio stations established in 1941
• BBC World Service
• BBC Radio stubs
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