History

BBC Bangla was launched on October 11, 1941 with a 15-minute programme under BBC World Service

BBC World Service

The BBC World Service is the world's largest international broadcaster, broadcasting in 27 languages to many parts of the world via analogue and digital shortwave, internet streaming and podcasting, satellite, FM and MW relays...

. It attained a vast popularity among the Bengali community in Bangladesh and India especially in Bangladesh for trustworthy news broadcast. Bengali speaking people all over the world enjoy its broadcast program.

Broadcasting

The programmes of BBC Bangla are broadcast on the FM broadcasting

FM broadcasting

FM broadcasting is a broadcasting technology pioneered by Edwin Howard Armstrong which uses frequency modulation to provide high-fidelity sound over broadcast radio. The term "FM band" describes the "frequency band in which FM is used for broadcasting"...

, mediumwave

Mediumwave

Medium wave is the part of the medium frequency radio band used mainly for AM radio broadcasting. For Europe the MW band ranges from 526.5 kHz to 1606.5 kHz...

 and shortwave

Shortwave

Shortwave radio refers to the upper MF and all of the HF portion of the radio spectrum, between 1,800–30,000 kHz. Shortwave radio received its name because the wavelengths in this band are shorter than 200 m which marked the original upper limit of the medium frequency band first used...

 all over the world.

It is broadcast from the headquarters at Bush House in London

London

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 as well as from BBC Bureau in Dhaka

Dhaka

Dhaka is the capital of Bangladesh and the principal city of Dhaka Division. Dhaka is a megacity and one of the major cities of South Asia. Located on the banks of the Buriganga River, Dhaka, along with its metropolitan area, had a population of over 15 million in 2010, making it the largest city...

, Kolkata

Kolkata

Kolkata , formerly known as Calcutta, is the capital of the Indian state of West Bengal. Located on the east bank of the Hooghly River, it was the commercial capital of East India...

 & Delhi

Delhi

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.

Medium

BBC Bangla is broadcasting their programmes in three popular mediums; radio service, website & internet radio and video service.

Types of program

BBC Bangla mainly focuses on News based daily programme along with sports news. They also broadcast entertainment programmes, news analysis, and discussion over Daily Newspapers lead news. In addition they broadcast programmes to reply mail, email and opinion of listeners.

Bangladesh Talk

Bangladesh talk is live programme of BBC Bangla service broadcast in association with Bangladeshi satellite channel Channel i

Channel I

Channel i is a privately owned Television network in Bangladesh. It is owned by the Impress Group, among the largest conglomerates in Bangladesh with interests in textiles, pharmaceuticals and media....

. They made the scope for the general people to ask their questions to concerned authority about important issues.

BBC Bangla a foreign language service of the BBC World Service

BBC World Service

The BBC World Service is the world's largest international broadcaster, broadcasting in 27 languages to many parts of the world via analogue and digital shortwave, internet streaming and podcasting, satellite, FM and MW relays...

is entertaining 13,000,000 Bengali speaking people around the world.