BBC Urdu : Sairbeen

http://wsodprogrf.bbc.co.uk/urdu/tx/sairbeen_800000.mp4

The Sairbeen programme launched earlier in the year as a partnership between BBC Urdu and Express TV in Pakistan, the press release has more details.

Originally only available on satellite, the programme is now available from bbcurdu.com during the live TX at 1800GMT Monday, Wednesday and Friday and on demand at other times.

If the embed above isn't working for you, then you can find it on the site here.

They definitely did well with the virtual studio, and they really accommodated BBC's lower-thirds together with Express News' big, nasty & oversized ticker, from what I see in pictures from Google...

If I'm not mistaken, the on screen personnel were trained by Maxine Mawhinney.

Maxine indeed.

Here is the April 22nd edition, as aired on Express News

What satellite is BBC Urdu on I've never seen it.

I believe it is broadcast on the Express News channel (and the on-screen logo in the above video appears to reflect this): http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/latestnews/2013/bbcurdutvsairbeen.html
http://www.lyngsat.com/tvchannels/pk/Express-News.html

Thanks noggin, I think theres a standalone feed presumably for Express TV to overlay their graphics onto.

All Pakistani News channels had to have such large-sized tickers and animated DOGs, like Express News and GEO News... I wonder, why does it have to be like that?

Maybe the Arabic font that lacks legibility? Compare it with what the BBC is using.

The current Express logo looks tidier than the previous one. Dawn News, the English service that had run till 2010, had been relatively understated and conservative in its use of on screen furniture, and was in many ways a better channel than some Indian English news networks which were more established. This was hampered by the small detail that no one could understand the English/American accents on Dawn, being that was where most of their staff were from, and it made no money, so it was replaced with an Urdu network which is still operating.

But for reasons best known to themreasons best known to them news channels in India and Pakistan tend to have very loud, brash graphics. The Times Nows and Aaj Taks of the world have multiple tickers, while the in-package graphics themselves tend to be very tabloid in their look. I wonder that if it doesn't look like the channel is constantly feeding the viewer with what looks like a stream of exciting information the channels worry they will go elsewhere. This is reflected in some of the panel and debate shows which can be a shouting match.

I remember that at one point Geo had a sprite that would walk across the screen and blow itself up, to represent a suicide bombing :-/