It was named best news channel for its portrayal of unbiased news in a complex and fast-moving environment.
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On 20 November 2009, BBC Persian TV was honoured at the 12th annual Hot Bird TV Awards in Venice, Italy. It was a half-hour narration of the unrest that developed in the streets of Iran immediately after the disputed June presidential elections. The award was for "the elections that shook Iran". On 4 November 2009, BBC Persian TV was honoured for the "Clearest coverage of a single news event – television" by the Association for International Broadcasting at its annual global media excellence awards at a gala event in London, England. Outside of Iran, the channel was therefore recognised accordingly. It became the channel that extensively covered the events for the Iranians inside Iran. It appears that Iranian presidential election, 2009 and what followed greatly elevated BBC Persian TV's stature and importance.
In June 2021 the BBC made a complaint to the UN about the Islamic Republic continuing to harass BBC Persian staff through kidnapping threats. In 2018 the BBC made a request to the UN Human Rights Council to "stop Iran from harassing its Persian service staff in London and their families in Iran." The Iranian government has "targeted" the members and family members of BBC Persian through threats, intimidation, and arrests. In 2017, Iranian authorities seized the Iranian assets of 152 contributors to BBC Persian, while in 2016 they detained former BBC World Service Trust employee Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe. Since February 2012, BBC Persian has resumed broadcasting on Hotbird again.ĭue to the ban on foreign reporters in Iran, the news service currently relies on a significant amount of user-generated content, often taken with mobile phones. After a new jamming in February 2011 on Hotbird, BBC Persian showed for some months only a test card along with the audio of their service. īBC Persian returned to a different frequency on Hot Bird 6 on, after a period of test transmissions. The jamming resumed on 20 December 2009, soon after BBC Persian began extended coverage of the protests resulting from the death of leading reformist cleric Grand Ayatollah Hoseyn Ali Montazeri, and on 28 December 2009, BBC Persian ceased its transmission from the Hot Bird 6 satellite, however, transmissions continued from the Telstar 12, Eutelsat W2M and Atlantic Bird 4A satellites. The channel has been accused by Iranian state television of encouraging "illegal" rallies and manipulating the Iranian people against the Islamic Republic, a claim which the BBC denies. In response, BBC Persian started transmission on other satellites and increased their broadcast hours in order to combat the interference In June 2009, BBC Persian's Hot Bird satellite broadcasts along with those of BBC Arabic Television, other BBC services, and those of other broadcasters were experiencing interference due to a jamming signal originating from within Iran.
On 1 April 2014, all World Service funding transfers to the Licence Fee model, which is paid for by all UK residents who watch television as it is broadcast.Īs of November 2017, BBC Persian has an audience of 13 million Iranians. The Iranian government issued a statement denouncing the new service as 'suspicious and illegal', and 'working against the interests of the Islamic Republic'. The annual budget of £15 million was funded by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, but as with the BBC World Service which is also funded by the FCO, the BBC remains editorially independent, though some Iranian media have accused the British Government of using the service as a propaganda tool. BBC director Mark Thompson said that the staff of BBC Persian had been subject to "increased levels of intimidation alongside disturbing new tactics" by the Iranian government. Iranian authorities have been known to harass and intimidate family members of the BBC Persian staff. It is aimed at the 120 million Persian-speakers in Iran, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan. The service is broadcast by satellite and is also available online. BBC Persian TV presenters Majid Afshar & Rana Rahimpoor, 2017īBC Persian Television ( Persian: تلویزیون فارسی بیبیسی Televizion-e Fârsi-ye BBC) is the BBC's Persian language news channel that was launched on 14 January 2009.
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