BBC Persian TV has started officially 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.
6 can receive across the satellite Eutelsat Hot Bird 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 emission will be done from Broadcasting House, head office in London of the World Service of the
BBC, and the channel will be provided with a variety of social and cultural programs, in addition to news.
The director of the World Service, Nigel Chapman, has pointed out that the preliminary target is to be provided with seven million viewers in Iran, Afghanistan and Tajikistan about 2011.
Also, it will be provided with its own correspondents in Beirut, Islamabad, Kabul, Jerusalem and Washington, but not in Iran, where the authorities have refused the permission to the
BBC.
BBC Arabian, thrown last year, was the first channel of the
BBC that was started by an emission without English language.
BBC Persian
(SatCesc, 15/01/09) 
