BBC Persian TV will start officially next January 14 with eight daily hours of emission. His budget approaches 15 million pounds sterling and he is born with the target is to reach in two years a hearing of 20 million persons.
For prompt the channel expresses before his official beginning in tests period an informative adjustment letter. There can be received across the satellite Hot Bird 6 in the frequency 11.117-V MHz (
DVB-S, MPEG-2, MR. 27500,
FEC 3/4). Also there is accessible in the satellite
Telstar 12 (15th West) in the frequency 12.608-H MHz (
DVB-S, MPEG-2, MR. 19279,
FEC 2/3), with a coverage bundle for Europe and the south area of Africa.
The new channel will express from London, but it can be received in Iran, what is prohibited for the diet of the ayatollahs, although nevertheless it is very widespread, also between the low classes.
The throwing of
BBC Persian TV has provoked the logical suspicions of the diet of Teheran, which has prohibited to the British public chain of opening a new office in Iran. A denial that will limit the coverage of the new channel inside the country to the work of the current correspondent in Teheran and to the good will of anonymous citizens.
BBC Arabian, thrown last year, was the first channel of the
BBC that was started by an emission without English language.
BBC Persian
(SatCesc, 09/01/09) 
