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New BBC channel on 13E?

(September 2007)

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itsrobert Founding member
noggin posted:
The BBC have been recruiting for an Arabic TV service - run by the BBC World Service under government funding NOT by BBC News under licence fee or BBC Worldwide funding. They have also been recruiting for a Farsi service as well AIUI.

The Arabic service is due to launch soon - I guess that the 13E bars are a holding signal for the uplink until a barker is ready.


noggin, does that mean that its presentation will be different from the BBC News channels? Will it have its own identity like the BBC WS does?
JR
jrothwell97
itsrobert posted:
noggin posted:
The BBC have been recruiting for an Arabic TV service - run by the BBC World Service under government funding NOT by BBC News under licence fee or BBC Worldwide funding. They have also been recruiting for a Farsi service as well AIUI.

The Arabic service is due to launch soon - I guess that the 13E bars are a holding signal for the uplink until a barker is ready.


noggin, does that mean that its presentation will be different from the BBC News channels? Will it have its own identity like the BBC WS does?


Slightly OT, but it appears that BBC World Service Radio is to get its identity reworked by David Lowe, so maybe it will tie in with this?
NG
noggin Founding member
itsrobert posted:
noggin posted:
The BBC have been recruiting for an Arabic TV service - run by the BBC World Service under government funding NOT by BBC News under licence fee or BBC Worldwide funding. They have also been recruiting for a Farsi service as well AIUI.

The Arabic service is due to launch soon - I guess that the 13E bars are a holding signal for the uplink until a barker is ready.


noggin, does that mean that its presentation will be different from the BBC News channels? Will it have its own identity like the BBC WS does?


I'm afraid I haven't seen any of the branding for the BBC Arabic TV service. The channel itself is entirely in Arabic so I would expect a lot of the branding to be in arabic script, though I suspect that the core BBC blocks are deemed iconic and unique enough to the BBC look that they will remain in Gill Sans - and in Roman characters as a result.

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