{"id":70220,"date":"2016-08-16T18:07:25","date_gmt":"2016-08-16T10:07:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/bbc-renews-yahlive-contract-to-reach-middle-east-and-south-west-asia\/"},"modified":"2016-08-16T18:07:25","modified_gmt":"2016-08-16T10:07:25","slug":"bbc-renews-yahlive-contract-to-reach-middle-east-and-south-west-asia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/bbc-renews-yahlive-contract-to-reach-middle-east-and-south-west-asia\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC Renews Yahlive Contract to Reach Middle East and South West Asia"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>[Via Satellite 08-16-2016] <strong>Yahlive<\/strong>, the Abu Dhabi-based satellite joint venture between <strong>SES<\/strong> and <strong>Yahsat<\/strong>, has signed a contract renewal with the <strong>BBC World Service<\/strong>. As part of the ongoing agreement, the BBC will continue the broadcast of its Persian and Arabic television channels as well as the radio programming from its Arabic and Afghan services to audiences across Yahlive\u2019s footprint.<\/p>\n<p>The BBC remains a key broadcaster in some of Yahlive\u2019s main coverage regions such as the Middle East and South West Asia. Viewership has significantly increased across Yahlive\u2019s Farsi-speaking viewers in the region; between 2014 and 2015 the total number of viewers over direct-to-home and terrestrial networks grew by approximately 45 percent from 26 million to more than 37 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Via Satellite 08-16-2016] Yahlive, the Abu Dhabi-based satellite joint venture between SES and Yahsat, has signed a contract renewal with the BBC World Service. As part of the ongoing agreement, the BBC will continue the broadcast of its Persian and Arabic television channels as well as the radio programming from its Arabic and Afghan services [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":70222,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70220"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70220\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}