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BBC Prime is the BBC's general entertainment TV channel available in Europe, Africa, the Middle East and Asia . It broadcasts via satellite and cable, for 18 hours a day, with the remaining six hours being used for educational programmes for BBC Learning. Owing to rights issues, much of the programming on BBC Prime is from the BBC's archive.
This caused considerable annoyance to many British expatriate viewers, who had much preferred the mix of BBC One and Two, previously offered by BBC TV Europe and BBC World Service Television.

BBC World is the British Broadcasting Corporation's 24-hour international current affairs TV channel with BBC News, documentaries, lifestyle programmes and interviews, and was launched in January 1995. Internationally, it competes with the US network CNN International, and also with Sky News in Europe.
Gear. It was formerly known as BBC World Service Television, although unlike BBC World Service radio it is commercially funded, as the British government refused to extend the Foreign Office grant-in-aid.
It was originally carried on Star TV, the pan-Asian satellite television service based in Hong Kong, which was later acquired by Rupert Murdoch.

Half-hour BBC World News segments are made available to PBS stations in the United States through WLIW in New York. 80 to 90% of the American public are able to receive them, though broadcast times vary between different localities. BBC World News bulletins are also available on BBC America, but that channel is usually only available on digital cable and satellite systems. BBC World News segments also air on CBC Newsworld in Canada. BBC World is based at BBC Television Centre in west London.

CBeebies is a British television channel produced by the BBC and aimed at children six years and under. CBeebies offers a mix of education and entertainment programming. Content is developed and produced using pre-school specialists and the Website and Interactive television offers educative and entertaining content beyond the TV programmes.
The domestic version of CBeebies has been on air since 2002, an international verson has now been launched and will become a global channel within the next few years.
In India the channel broadcasts on Tata Sky, channel 607 and India Online Broadband on channel 49. In Singapore the channel is available on SingTel (Channel 28 on Mio TV).

People+Arts is customised in both Spanish and Portuguese. It features commissioned programmes for viewers in Latin America and the Iberian Peninsula. Launched in October 1997, People+Arts is a joint venture between BBC Worldwide Ltd, one of the BBC’s commercial subsidiaries, and Discovery Communications, Inc.
People+Arts explores the human experience with compelling programmes which include powerful real-life drama, provocative human stories, exclusive regional and international productions, and suspense thrillers.
The station's programming consists of a mix of British series, reality shows, hobby programmes and some American series, either in their original language with subtitling (Portugal) or dubbed in Spanish with optional English soundtrack; a few Spanish programs originally broadcast by generalist networks also run on People+Arts.

UK.TV is a subscription television channel in Australia and New Zealand, screening British entertainment programming, sourced mainly from the archives of the BBC, RTL Group (mainly talkbackTHAMES material) and ITV plc. The company is 60% owned by FOXTEL, 20% owned by BBC Worldwide and 20% owned by RTL Group. It was first launched in Australia in August 1996, and became available in New Zealand via SKY Television, in November 2003.
It shows a mix of old series like Are You Being Served?, Dad's Army, The Jewel in the Crown, Never the Twain, The Sweeney and The Bill that have already been seen on free-to-air terrestrial television in Australia. It also screens popular soap operas like the BBC's EastEnders and ITV's Coronation Street, which are no longer shown on free-to-air in Australia.

UK soap opera Family Affairs (no longer produced), which has never been screened on free-to-air Australian television, has been running on UK.TV since 1998. In July 2006 UK.TV began screening 2006 episodes of UK soap opera Emmerdale. It also screens other current shows such as Casualty, Holby City, Shameless, and the original version of The Weakest Link.
In addition to British programming it has repeated Australian soap operas Sons and Daughters and Prisoner (known in the UK as Prisoner Cell Block H) which were both produced by the Reg Grundy Organisation (now owned by RTL). In both cases the entire series was shown; the Sons and Daughters repeat run was from 1997 until 2000 and Prisoner ran from 1997 until October 2004. It also showed the TVNZ soap opera Shortland Street for several years in the 1990s, after that series had briefly been screened by SBS on free-to-air television in Australia.
Apart from comedy and drama series being aired, UK.TV has also shown British sci-fi shows such as Doctor Who and Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy.
In Australia, UK.TV, like all pay TV drama channels, is legally required to spend 10 per cent of their total programme expenditure on funding new eligible (Australian and New Zealand) drama programmes.
One such production was miniseries Changi.
UK.TV now has separate services in Australia and New Zealand, partly to reflect different local tastes, though also for rights reasons, as many programmes, particularly EastEnders and Coronation Street, are shown on free-to-air in New Zealand on Prime and TV One respectively.