The Editors: Expanded distribution within the US for BBC World Information – Cyber Tech

This week viewers to BBC World Information have been watching a sequence of reviews specializing in the Arab uprisings, two years after they first started. Correspondents have been in Damascus, Tunis, Cairo, the Syria-Lebanon border and elsewhere. Their eyewitness TV reporting is accompanied by additional rationalization and evaluation on our web site, bbc.com/information. These are knowledgeable journalists, with years of expertise and data, dwelling the story on behalf of the viewers. They exhibit our dedication to reporting the world, and bringing readability to complicated occasions.

Till now, nevertheless, viewers on the earth’s largest TV market, the US, have discovered it arduous to entry BBC reporting of this sort. The market is saturated with TV channels, however for the previous couple of years we have been very centered on securing widespread carriage on the distribution techniques which deliver TV into most houses.

So at this time the BBC is delighted to announce we now have agreed to a partnership with the US cable big – Time Warner Cable – and thru this and different offers, an extra 10 million houses within the US may have entry to BBC World Information 24 hours a day, seven days per week.

This implies by the top of this 12 months we can be obtainable in 25 million houses, together with these in many of the main markets – New York, Washington DC, Los Angeles, Chicago, Boston. There may be nonetheless some approach to go earlier than we are able to say we now have reached everybody – however 2012 has been a 12 months of great breakthroughs for us within the US.

The BBC is already well-known in America by way of its partnerships with public radio, by way of the success of our web site BBC.com/information, and due to our nightly broadcast on public tv fronted by Katty Kay. We consider our model of high-quality, clever and non-partisan journalism has one thing to supply US audiences, and we’re decided to make entry to our providers so simple as attainable.

The timing couldn’t be higher. We’re just some weeks away from the primary broadcasts of BBC World Information from our model new headquarters in central London. Three new studios, an enormous funding in manufacturing and journalism, and dealing extra carefully with BBC journalists working in English and 27 different languages – it is greater than only a new dwelling, it is a new begin. We’re delighted to share that much more broadly.

Richard Porter is controller of English at BBC World Information