BBC Worldwide, its commercial arm, is planning to expand its international activities by starting six new channels in the India and US.
There is scope for "five BBC branded channels in addition to news in any major market" offering a mix of content from the BBC and other British broadcasters, BBC Worldwide's Chief Executive John Smith said. It is already active in India, a country in which the World Service has been operating for 75 years. The corporation, in partnership with Mid Day Multimedia, won seven FM Radio licences in Delhi, Mumbai and Bangalore last year. Smith said India was "looking interesting" but added there were three or four parts of the world they were focussing on. Last year BBC made a trading profit of Pounds 89.4 millions by selling British television, magazines and news media to the world. The new channels will be funded by advertising and will initially be in English. But the BBC is interested in offering foreign language channels, an echo of the World Service's planned Arab new service. ++++++++++++++++++++ Source: http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/001200606291864.htm++++++++++++++++++++ Jaisakthivel, Chennai. __________________________________________________________ Yahoo! India Answers: Share what you know. Learn something new http://in.answers.yahoo.com/ ---[Start Commercial]--------------------- World Radio TV Handbook 2006 is out. Order yours from http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0823059367/hardcoredxcom/ ---[End Commercial]----------------------- ________________________________________ Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com http://arizona.hard-core-dx.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ _______________________________________________ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/dsl.html