BBC to launch Arabic channel

The BBC is in talks about launching a 24-hour news channel broadcasting in Arabic across the UK, Europe and the Arab world.

Funded by the UK Gov.

The BBC ran an Arabic channel in the mid-1990s, which was funded by Orbit Communications, an arm of the Saudi Arabian royal family.
It broadcast for eight hours a day between June 1994 and April 1996, and was closed down when Orbit withdrew its support over editorial disagreements.
Many of the channel's journalists were employed by al-Jazeera when it launched soon afterwards.

Educate, educate, educate! It doesn't matter if there's to be a problem with credibility or bias. Just better to fill the vacuum with something!

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