BBC Persian

The BBC Persian website was relaunched last week ahead of the TV channel launch.

As expected the site has taken on the generic news branding, and the embedded video is also branded in the style of BBC News. This is the first World Service site to launch with this branding and increase to 1024 width, and it is expected to be rolled out across all the remaining language sites over the coming year.

Still no official launch date for the TV channel, although an email sent to all staff in Global News yesterday mentioned TV launching later in 2008.

damn its got the horrible current BBC News branding.

Personally, I think it looks better that the current look, bit more colourfull

http://img122.imageshack.us/img122/4313/bbcpersianim8.png
Taken from a news report at bbc.co.uk/persian

I'm quite impressed by the Persian look. It's very, very similar to An La on BBC Alba and probably what we can expect when Arabic gets updated with the LN branding.

Also, more or less the same music as the National News here in the UK. I thought they may have opted for something that sounded more Asian/Persian.

An example of an aston on this video. It's more of an imaginative animation than the graphics here in the UK. It's around 01:27. Click here

This channel looks quite good. I wish they chose a different look, like BBC Arabic did, however these are still good. When are they launching?

The music is more arabic/persian - just wait til you hear the top of the hour countdown......

Would you care to elaborate? Have you seen/heard the countdown?

It is my understanding that BBC Arabic will be adopting the same branding as BBC Persian, and all foreign language News output from the BBC.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/assets/images/2008/10/081021persian_tv_386x217.jpg

It's part already shown on the website.... it's kind of like that but with 'time' elements that aren't numbers.

Sound wise, you wouldn't go far wrong with some middle eastern drums and guitar mixed with the sound of BBC News...

Will BBC Newyddion on S4C also be getting updated branding. AFAIK, they are still using a variant of the red and black ribbons look.

Does anyone know what any of this Persian article about the TV launch means? I've looked for an online translator without success. TV Launch Story

Have we got any other indications of graphics and music that are going to be used on the channel?