Radio services the BBC is proposing to stop are: Arabic, Persian, Kyrgyz, Uzbek, Hindi, Bengali, Chinese, Indonesian, Tamil, and Urdu. The language services which are already digital only are: Azerbaijani, Brasil, Marathi, Mundo, Punjabi, Russian, Serbian, Sinhala, Thai, Turkish, and Vietnamese. The World Service currently reaches 148m people in an average week. Some new scheduling, programmes and podcasts will be set out in due course.
World Service English will continue to operate as 24 hour broadcast radio, available around the world. BBC Arabic radio and BBC Persian radio will also cease.
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Some TV and radio programmes will stop under the new plans. The BBC said the World Service will continue to operate in all the languages and countries where it is currently present, including the new languages added during its expansion in 2016. Read more RTS Conference: BBC, Channel 4 and ITV on household budgets, going digital and diversity The proposals will see seven more language services moving to digital only, meaning that nearly half of all 41 language services will be digital only. The BBC’s international services need to make a saving of £28.5m, as part of its wider plan to make £500m of annual savings and reinvestment and to make the BBC digital-led. High inflation, soaring costs, and a cash-flat BBC licence fee settlement have led to tough choices across the corporation.
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