BBC to launch Arabic TV
The BBC World Service said Tuesday that it would launch an Arabic TV and information service and end radio services in 10 other languages to help pay for the venture.
The Arabic service will be the first publicly funded international television service launched by the British Broadcasting Corp. Its BBC World TV service is a commercial venture.
The BBC said it would end radio broadcasts in Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Greek, Hungarian, Kazakh, Polish, Slovak, Slovene and Thai by March. Online services in these languages will continue.
Al Jazeera, the Arabic television service based in Qatar, announced in July that it planned to launch an English language service next year.
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