BBC Urdu

BBC Urdu (Urdu: بی بی سی اردو) is a digital television station covering the Indian subcontinent in the Urdu language.^[1] It was the Urdu language station of the BBC World Service, accompanied by its website, which served as a news portal and provided online access to radio broadcasts. The radio service was broadcast from Broadcasting House in London and Pakistan as well as from a BBC South and East Asia bureau in New Delhi, India. It also has a children’s channel CBeebies. The target audience were Pakistani and Indian viewers.^[2][3]

BBC Urdu
بی بی سی اردو

Type	Radio network and website
Country	United Kingdom, India, Pakistan
Availability	International
Endowment	Foreign and Commonwealth Office, UK
Owner	BBC
Launch date	May 1940
Official website	www.bbc.com/urdu/
Language	Urdu

Programs

• Sairbeen^[4][5]

See also

• BBC portal

• BBC World Service
• Abbas Nasir