BBC World News
Country	United Kingdom
Broadcast area	Worldwide (except UK)
Network	BBC News
Slogan	Live the story
Headquarters	Broadcasting House
Programming
Language(s)	English
Picture format	1080i HDTV (downscaled to 16:9 for the SDTV feeds. The Latin American subfeed is downscaled to letterboxed 4:3 480i )
Ownership
Owner	BBC Global News Ltd .
Sister channels	See list
History
Launched	16 January 1995 ; 29 years ago  ( 1995-01-16 )
Replaced	BBC World Service Television [ (1991?1995)
Former names	BBC World (1995?2008)
Links
Website	BBC World News
Availability
Terrestrial
Boxer TV Access (Sweden)	Channel 27
Digital terrestrial television (Andorra)	Channel 20
ERT Digital (Greece)	Channel 48 Channel 56 (HD)
Digital terrestrial television (Mauritius)	Channel 2
Nexmedia (Indonesia)	Channel 703
Oqaab (Afghanistan)	Channel 43
Satellite
Dstv (Sub-Saharan Africa)	Channel 400

BBC World News is an international news television channel . Unlike other BBC channels, it is not available in the United Kingdom . It is not funded by a licence fee . Instead it has advertisements . BBC World News employs more correspondents and reporters than any other news channel. ^[1]

The channel was launched in 1991.

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