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Country | India Pakistan United Kingdom Australia New Zealand Canada United States European Union Malaysia Singapore Middle East |
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Broadcast area | worldwide |
Network | BBC World Service |
Headquarters | Delhi |
Programming | |
Language(s) | Punjabi |
Picture format | 1080i HDTV (downscaled to 16:9 576i for the SDTV feed) |
Ownership | |
Owner | BBC |
Sister channels | BBC News BBC Urdu BBC Gujarati BBC Bangla BBC World Service |
History | |
Launched | 2 October 2017 |
Links | |
Website | bbc |
Availability | |
Streaming media | |
BBC Punjabi | BBC Punjabi online |
BBC Punjabi (in Punjabi: ਬੀਬੀਸੀ ਪੰਜਾਬੀ (Gurmukhi), بی بی سی پنجابی (Shahmukhi)) or BBC News Punjabi is an international news service in Punjabi language. It was started on 2 October 2017.[1][2] The service is on websites and social networking sites.[3] The launch is part of the World Service's biggest expansion since the 1940s, following a government funding boost announced in 2016.[4][5]