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BBC World is the British Broadcasting Corporation's 24-hour international current affairs TV channel with news, documentaries, lifestyle programmes and interviews, and was launched in January 1995. Internationally, it competes with the US network CNN, and also with Sky News in Europe.

It was formerly known as BBC World Service Television, although unlike BBC World Service radio it is commercially funded, as the British government refused to extend the Foreign Office grant-in-aid. It was originally carried on Star TV, the pan-Asian satellite television service based in Hong Kong, which was later acquired by Rupert Murdoch. Owing to the People's Republic of China government's dislike of the BBC's news coverage, Star TV dropped its carriage of the channel in the region, although the Corporation later found another satellite.

BBC World is carried on satellite and cable, and its bulletins are also rebroadcast on local terrestrial channels. It is not officially available in the United KingdomThe United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is a state in Western Europe, usually known simply as the United Kingdom the UK Britain or less accurately as Great Britain . The UK was formed by a series of Acts of Union which united the formerly, on the grounds that it carries advertisingAdvertising is the paid promotion of goods, services, companies and ideas, by an identified sponsor. Marketers see advertising as part of an overall promotional strategy. Other components of the promotional mix include publicity, public relations, persona, although it can be received via satellite. However, between 0100 and 0500 UTC each day, its news bulletins and programmes are shown on BBC News 24BBC News 24 is the BBC's 24-hour news television channel in the UK, its international counterpart being BBC World. It first broadcast on November 9 1997 at 17:30 and at first only cable television subscribers could view it. In 1999, with the advent of dig; these are simply identified as "BBC News" with no reference to either channel. On weekdays BBC World also produces a 30 minute analytical news programme called The World which can be seen in the UK on BBC FourBBC Four is a BBC television channel available to digital TV Freeview satellite and cable) viewers in the UK. History BBC Four is the successor to an earlier digital channel called BBC Knowledge. It began broadcasting on March 2 2002 in a simulcast with B.

BBC World also makes its own programming like HARDtalk, which features interviews with famous people, World Business Report, Asia Today, Click OnlineTimes of transmission Click is a 30 minute show that has a 'cut down' version of 15 mins for BBC Breakfast at the weekends : BBC2: Saturday, 06:45 BBC1: Sunday 07:30 BBC News 24: Saturday 20:30-21:00, Sunday 04:30-05:00 (sometimes also on BBC1); 16:30-17: (technology), Fasttrack (travel), and Talking Movies. In IndiaThe Republic of India is a large multicultural country in South Asia, with a population of over one billion. The Indian economy is the fourth largest in the world, in terms of purchasing power parity, and is the world's second-fastest growing economy., it also shows programmes tailor-made for a regional audiences, including Indian versions of the BBC's current affairs programme Question Time and quiz show University Challenge, and motor show Wheels, similar to Top Gear.

Half-hour BBC World News segments are made available to PBS stations in the United States through WLIW in New York. 80 to 90% of the American public are able to receive them, though broadcast times vary between different localities. BBC World News bulletins are also available on BBC America, but that channel is usually only available on digital cable and satellite systems. BBC World News segments also air on CBC Newsworld in Canada.

BBC World is based at BBC Television Centre in west London.