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BBC launches its first 24-hour English FM station in Kuwait

For the first time, listeners in Kuwait can now hear BBC World Service programmes in English 24 hours a day, seven days a week since the launch of the new FM station, BBC 100.1 FM.

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Jerry Timmins, Head of Africa & Middle East Region, BBC World Service, said:

"This is the first fully dedicated BBC English relay on air in the Gulf. Listeners in Kuwait can now hear for the first time the full range of BBC programmes in English in crystal clear quality via the new BBC 100.1 FM station. This complements our existing 24/7 BBC Arabic relay on 90.1 FM and is a further example of the long-standing and positive co-operation the BBC enjoys with Kuwait."


Khalid AI-Tarrah, Director of the Kuwait Information Centre in London, said: "We are delighted to have BBC World Service broadcasting in Arabic and now also in English from Kuwait. This represents a significant milestone in the wider dissemination of news and current affairs programming in the region. This new agreement is a crowning moment in the well established co-operation between Kuwait's Ministry of Information and the BBC."

The programmes broadcast on BBC 100.1 FM range from health and sport to business and music. They include the BBC's flagship programme Newshour, which is 60 minutes of news and analysis of the day's top stories from the BBC's most experienced correspondents, Outlook, which brings human interest stories from across the globe, and World, Have Your Say - the daily multimedia interactive phone-in programme encouraging people across the world to question experts and leading international figures in the news.
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For more information contact:

Christine George, Assistant International Publicist, BBC World Service
+44(0)207557 1142

BBC World Service is an international radio and online broadcaster delivering programmes and services in 33 languages. It uses multiple platforms to reach 163 million listeners globally, including SW, AM, FM, digital satellite and cable channels. It has around 2,000 partner radio stations which take BBC content, and numerous partnerships supplying content to mobile phones. Its international online sites, which include audio and visual content and offer users opportunities to interact directly with world events, receive over 500 million page impressions, attracting around 33 million unique users a month.

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