BBC Bangla is a foreign language service of the BBC World Service.

History

BBC Bangla was launched on October 11, 1941 with a 15-minute programme under BBC World Service. It attained a vast popularity among the Bengali community in Bangladesh and India especially in Bangladesh for trustworthy news broadcast. Bengali speaking people all over the world enjoy its broadcast program.

Broadcasting

The programmes of BBC Bangla are broadcast on the FM broadcasting, mediumwave and shortwave all over the world.

It is broadcast from the headquarters at Bush House in London as well as from BBC Bureau in Dhaka, Kolkata & Delhi.

Medium

BBC Bangla is broadcasting their programmes in three popular mediums; radio service, website & internet radio and video service.

Types of program

BBC Bangla mainly focuses on News based daily programme along with sports news. They also broadcast entertainment programmes, news analysis, and discussion over Daily Newspapers lead news. In addition they broadcast programmes to reply mail, email and opinion of listeners.

Bangladesh Talk

Bangladesh talk is live programme of BBC Bangla service broadcast in association with Bangladeshi satellite channel Channel i. They made the scope for the general people to ask their questions to concerned authority about important issues.

BBC Bangla a foreign language service of the BBC World Service is entertaining 13,000,000 Bengali speaking people around the world.

See also

BBC World Service
BBC Nepali

External links

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