BBC News: Халықаралық жаңалықтар арнасы

English language pay television channel
the English language audio visual international news and current affairs operations of the BBC
the BBC's TV news channel available internationally

BBC News (known as BBC World News until 2023) is an international English language pay television channel owned by BBC Global News Ltd.— a subsidiary of BBC Studios—and operated by the BBC News division of the BBC. The network carries news bulletins, documentaries, and other factual programmes; its programming is based out of studios in London, Washington, D. C., and Singapore. As of April 2023, the channel largely operates as an international feed of the BBC News channel in the UK, sharing the majority of its schedule. Launched on 11 March 1991 as BBC World Service Television outside Europe, its name was changed to BBC World on 16 January 1995 and to BBC World News on 21 April 2008 and again to BBC News (International) on 3 April 2023 after its consolidation with the domestic BBC News Channel. According to the BBC, the combined seven channels of the Global News operations have the largest audience market share among all of its rivals, with an estimated 99 million viewers weekly in 2016–2017, part of the estimated 121  million weekly audience of all its operations. Unlike the BBC's domestic channels, it is funded by subscription and advertising revenues, and not by the United Kingdom television licence. As such, the channel is not broadcast in the UK directly, although selected programmes and bulletins have been carried on the domestic BBC News channel (especially during the overnight hours), and vice versa (including domestic programmes such as Click and HARDtalk, and during breaking news and special events in the UK). In April 2023, the BBC began to further consolidate the programming and talent of the two channels as part of a corporation wide streamlining of operations, with both channels now using the BBC News branding. The international feed remains an advertising supported service, but the two services are structured to use a common schedule with domestic opt outs for UK specific news coverage and programmes.

The channel relocated to Broadcasting House from its previous home at Television Centre on 14 January 2013. This was part of the move of BBC News and other audio and vision departments of the BBC into one building in Central London. Broadcasting House was refurbished for £1 billion. A new newsroom and several state of the art studios were built.

On 26 May 2022, as part of planned cuts and streamlining across the broadcaster, the BBC announced plans for consolidation of the domestic BBC News channel in the UK with BBC World News. The domestic and international versions would share a larger amount of content while maintaining the ability for opt outs when necessary. The BBC promoted that the service would offer "new flagship programmes built around high profile journalists, and programmes commissioned for multiple platforms". In preparation for the expansion, the BBC began to add additional staff to its Washington, D. C. bureau. Despite the changes, the international feed of BBC News—which continues to be distributed by BBC Studios and Eutelsat Hot Bird 6 satellite to other broadcast feeds in the Asian region from 20 January 2009. The channel ceased broadcasting on analogue satellite on 18 April 2006.

As a result of the move to Broadcasting House, BBC News gained high definition studios and equipment to be able to broadcast in high definition. On 5 August 2013, the international feed of BBC News was offered as a High Definition (HD) feed across the Middle East when it launched its international HD channel on the Arab Satellite Communications Organization. Arabsat was the BBC's first distribution partner in the Middle East to offer the channel in HD. On 1 April 2015, the then called BBC World News Channel started broadcasting in high definition from the 11.229  GHz/V transponder on Astra 1KR at the 19.2°E orbital position, available free to air to viewers with 60  cm dishes across Europe and coastal North Africa.

BBC News claims to be watched by a weekly audience of 74 million in over 200 countries and territories worldwide. BBC News is the most commonly watched as a free to air (FTA) channel. The channel is available in Europe and many parts of the world via subscription television providers in cable, satellite, IPTV and streaming platforms. In the United States, the channel is available through providers such as Cablevision, Comcast, Spectrum, Verizon Fios, and U verse TV. As of 2023, the American distribution and advertising sales for the channel are handled by AMC Networks, who are the minority partner for the BBC's entertainment channel BBC America. In addition, BBC News syndicates its daytime and evening news programmes to public television stations throughout the US, originally maintaining a distribution partnership with Garden City, New York based WLIW that lasted from 1998 until October 2008, when the BBC and WLIW mutually decided not to renew the contract. BBC News subsequently entered into an agreement with Community Television of Southern California, Inc., in which Los Angeles PBS member station KCET (which was a public independent station from 2011 to 2018) would take over distribution rights to BBC World News America (the KCET agreement has since been extended to encompass a half hour simulcast of the 90 minute long midday news bulletin GMT, which airs in the US as a morning show, and a weekly edition of the BBC news magazine Newsnight). Since June 2019, the distribution of the programme has been handled by Washington, D. C. PBS member WETA, which also produces other networked news and public affairs programmes such as the PBS NewsHour and Washington Week. PBS separately began distributing another programme aired by the channel, Beyond 100 Days, as a tape delayed late night broadcast on 2 January 2018, as an interim replacement for Charlie Rose. Unlike GMT and BBC World News America, Beyond 100 Days is distributed exclusively to PBS member stations as part of the service's base schedule. China banned BBC News in 2021—although access had already been heavily restricted before then, and what was carried was censored with parts of the show being blacked out by censors operating live. It was banned owing to its coverage of the persecution of Uyghur people in China and in retaliation for CGTN's ban from the British market for violating national broadcast regulations.

The channel is available in the US as part of Sling's World News add on package. The international feed of BBC News was available on LiveStation from 2012 until the platform closed in 2016, along with the UK simulcast. The channel was added to various free ad supported streaming television (FAST) platforms in the United States, including Pluto TV, Xumo Play, Samsung TV Plus, and Sling Freestream, in March 2024. Apart from advertising, the FAST version of the channel is identical to the version already available through traditional U. S. cable and satellite providers.

Half hour BBC News bulletins are made available to PBS stations in the US through Los Angeles' KCET, a non commercial independent public television station which has been separate from PBS since the beginning of 2011 due to a rights fee dispute (it returned to being a minor PBS member station in 2019 after a merger with the major PBS member station in the market). 80 to 90% of Americans can receive the bulletins, with PBS member stations having scheduling discretion. The programme is broadcast on several PBS stations in markets such as New York City and Washington DC. On PBS stations, BBC News is not broadcast with traditional commercials (the breaks are filled with news stories) but omits the Met Office international weather forecast at the end of the programme, replacing it with underwriting announcements. The PBS broadcasts are tape delayed on some stations. BBC America formerly aired a three hour block of BBC News programmes from 05:00 to 08:00 on weekdays, until the stabilisation of the network's carriage in the United States. Met Office forecasts were removed, and it was broadcast with advertisements. Many airlines from across the world also play pre recorded extracts of BBC News, have text headlines from it or have a full bulletin available on the in flight entertainment systems.

BBC News is, for the most part, the same channel around the world; the commercials are intended to be the only differences. However, there are some regional programming variations. For example, several programmes are made exclusively for regional viewings, such as the Indian feeds, and The Record Europe, which is only broadcast in Europe. Also, the weather forecasts focus more on the area the viewer is watching from. On most feeds of BBC News, when no commercials are being inserted by the cable or satellite provider similar to other channels, the break filler shows promotions for upcoming programmes on the channel. During BBC News, a news story that has not been promoted airs during what would be the television advertisement. This is the case on the broadband versions of BBC News, and on versions of BBC News aired in the US on PBS stations. However, there are some global commercials and sponsorships which air throughout the network. On 11 September 2007, the break filler was redesigned and now more closely resembles previous versions. The promotional videos now fill the entire screen and are interspersed with news and market updates, schedules, and other information. There is also no longer a unifying music composition. Instead, each 20 second promotional video uses music selected from a handful of themes, which have some unifying musical characteristics. The information screens, such as the 10 second plug for the website or the YouTube channel, and the 15 second weather/time/coming up screens each feature their theme. The colour theme was updated following the relaunch of the channel in April 2008. Since its inception, and more so since its extensive association with the BBC News channel, the countdown to the hourly news bulletin has been a feature of the channel's presentation, accompanied by music composed by David Lowe. The current style of countdown features reporters and technical staff in many different locations working to bring news stories to air. The new countdown keeps the same music, but with Chameleon style branding and a clock relocated to the middle from the bottom right corner, similar in style to that of BBC Alba. The countdown can range from 45 seconds to as little as 3 seconds.

The then called BBC World News was named Best International News Channel at the Association for International Broadcasting Awards in November 2006. It won a Peabody Award in 2007 for White Horse Village and another in 2009 for Where Giving Life is a Death Sentence.