![]() The first broadcasts in 1938 featured one news bulletin. By the end of World War II, the Literary Arabic language programme was three hours. In 1940 the broadcasts had grown to 1 hour and 25 minutes, and close to two hours by 1942. The BBC Arabic service started in 1938 as 65-minute broadcasts. BBC Arabic is considered one of the oldest and longest running foreign-language news services. In 1938, 16 years after the British Broadcasting Corporation was founded, the BBC began broadcasting in Literary Arabic. Also during this time, the BBC was insistent that its established news standards not be compromised in the name of broadcasting Arabic-language British propaganda. ![]() Cyprus at the time was a Crown Colony in the British Empire, and seen as more stable than Palestine, a British Mandate. In the years leading up to the 1938 establishment of the BBC Literary Arabic language service, there were plans by the British Foreign Office to set up radio broadcasts based in Cyprus. After the Second Italo-Abyssinian War, these broadcasts became strongly anti-British. This was partly in response to the Italian Literary Arabic language radio broadcasts that were transmitted by medium wave from Bari, and also in short wave from Rome, beginning in 1934. This was created as a way to broadcast British views to the Arab world. In 1936, the BBC helped the British Colonial Office set up the Palestine Broadcasting Service in Jerusalem, a medium wave radio broadcast. On Friday, 27 January 2023, the Arabic broadcast of the BBC radio went off the air at 13:00 UTC. In September 2022, the World Service had announced the proposed closure of its Arabic radio service as part of a cost-cutting plan, but an online service will remain. The target audience was in the Arab world ( North Africa and Western Asia). The radio service was broadcast from Broadcasting House in London as well as from a BBC Bureau in Cairo. BBC Arabic ( Arabic: بي بي سي عربي) may refer to the Literary Arabic language radio station which was run by the BBC World Service, as well as the BBC's satellite TV channel, and the website that serves as an Literary Arabic language news portal and provides online access to both the TV and radio broadcasts.
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