Type | Radio network and website |
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Country | |
Availability | International |
Endowment | Foreign and Commonwealth Office, UK |
Owner | BBC |
Launch date | 1941 |
Official website | www |
Language | Urdu |
BBC Urdu (Urdu: بی بی سی اردو) is 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 & east asia bureau in New Delhi. It also has a children’s channel CBeebies. The target audience were Pakistanis & Indian viewers.[1]
On December 30, 2022, after almost two decades, BBC Pakistan stopped Its Urdu Radio operations.[2][3]