BBC World News Launches On DirecTV
Global News Net Tops 40-Million U.S. Home Mark
3/06/2015 1:45 PM Eastern
By: Kent Gibbons
Multichannel News
http://www.multichannel.com/news/networks/bbc-world-news-launches-directv/388632
TakeAway: Launch puts global-news programmer in every U.S. TV market on
full-time basis for the first time.
BBC World News America said it launched today on DirecTV (channel 346)
in high-definition format, a move that takes the global-news programmer
above the 40-million home mark in terms of U.S. distribution.
The channel is not Nielsen rated, but its last big distribution gain was
on AT&T U-Verse
<http://www.multichannel.com/news/content/bbc-world-news-launches-att-u-verse/356051>
(which has a pending merger with DirecTV) a year ago, taking it above
the 30-million home mark. Other big distributors stateside are Comcast,
Time Warner Cable, Verizon FiOS, Charter and Cablevision. The network
credited gains coming from carriage deals secured by AMC Networks, which
represents BBC World News in distribution talks, and noted the DirecTV
launch places the service on a full-time basis in all U.S. TV markets.
That came as part of the AMC Networks purchase
<http://www.multichannel.com/news/news-articles/amc-networks-buys-499-bbc-america-200m/385009>
of 49.9% of sister service BBC America and partnership with BBC Worldwide.
BBC World News has the largest audience of any BBC channel in the world,
the broadcaster said, broadcasting in more than 200 countries and
territories and having more than 85 international news bureaus around
the world. Pictured: /BBC World News America/ anchor Katty Kay in the
BBC's Washington, D.C., bureau.
In a release, BBC Global News Ltd. CEO Jim Egan said: “In a profoundly
inter-connected and uncertain world audiences want a global news source
they can trust. With correspondents in more countries than any other
news provider only the BBC can offer U.S. viewers authoritative,
fast-paced reporting of the latest news from around the world and an
intelligent, truly objective perspective on America’s place in it. We
are delighted to be growing so quickly in the U.S. on all platforms and
to be available to TV subscribers nationwide for the first time.”
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