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BBC Bangla

Address: Noor Tower (14th Floor), 110 Sonargaon Road, Dhaka, 1205

Email: bengali@bbc.co.uk
Fax: +880 2 9632070

Website: http://www.bbc.co.uk/bengali
Twitter: https://twitter.com/bbcbangla
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BBCBengaliService

About

Frequency: Dhaka(100.0FM), Chittagong (105.0 FM), Khulna (105.4 FM), Rajshahi (105.4 FM), Sylhet (105.0 FM), Rangpur (105.4 FM), Comilla (101.2 FM)

Year Started: 11 October, 1941

Country: Bangladesh

Ownership: State Owned

Owner: BBC

Overview

Description:

BBC Bangla is the Bengali language service of the BBC. It is aimed at Bengali speakers in both Bangladesh and India. BBC Bangla broadcasts to Bangladesh on Short Wave and FM for two hours per day and online through its website. Programming consists of news, current affairs, sports, entertainment and discussion programmes. From 2005 to 2010, BBC Bangla broadcast a weekly TV and radio discussion programme called Sanglap (Dialogue) in association with Bangladesh's Channel i satellite TV station. This popular programme aimed to initiate constructive public debate and encourage greater accountability from government and authority figures. It brought ordinary people face-to-face with influential politicians and business leaders and gave them an opportunity to ask questions about issues that matter to them. Sanglap was broadcast from different locations around Bangladesh and claimed a regular audience of 21 million. It inspired several other private TV stations in Bangladesh to launch similar discussion programmes. BBC Bangla is relayed on FM by Bangladesh Betar in Dhaka on its FM 100 station. This also relays BBC World Service in English for 10 hours per day. In addition, BBC Bangla is relayed by the Bangladesh Betar local FM stations in: Chittagong (105.0 FM), Khulna (105.4 FM), Rajshahi (105.4 FM), Sylhet (105.0 FM), Rangpur (105.4 FM), Comilla (101.2 FM) Since 2010 BBC Bangla has also offered a dial-in news update service to mobile phone users, on Bangladesh's three largest mobile phone networks. By dialing the short code 16262 members of the public can listen to a recording of the latest BBC headlines in Bangla at any time of day and leave their own comments if they wish.

Content Type: Current affairs

Languages: Bangla

Coverage: National

Coverage areas: Banglades, India

Last updated: 12/10/2021

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