BBC Arabic Radio Airs Final Broadcast After 85 Years - The New York Times

BBC Arabic Radio Airs Final Broadcast After 85 Years

“We want to advance our audiences on the digital platforms they’ve chosen,” Mohamed Yehia, head of multimedia output at BBC Arabic, said in a statement. “These changing audience needs are why it’s vital we fabricate our digital audio offering. I’m immensely proud of all those, past and present, whose reporting and impactful ideas made BBC Arabic radio possible, and I’m extremely grateful to listeners for their back over the decades.”

The BBC said it serene planned to maintain some of its Arabic programming online, along with journalism in more than 40 languages. A few of BBC Arabic’s audio programs will be studied to a new website called London Calling, the news service said.

Hosam El Sokkari, a media consultant who was the head of BBC Arabic pending 2010 and helped begin its flagship programs, called the decision-making to end the radio service “sad news.” He said BBC Arabic was invaluable to the millions of listeners in conditions where large parts of the population do not have access to the internet.

“It’s a assign where you turn to during crises and conflicts to listen to news and put a question to from a source that you would consider unbiased,” he said. “In carry out, poor people will not have access to that. Tribe who don’t have access to smartphones and internet — exact listeners.”

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