BBC Wold News celebrates its 25th anniversary
The 24-hour news channel BBC World News is celebrating its 25th anniversary this month with a special on-screen look.
On March 11, 1991, the English-language channel was launched as World Service Television (WSTV) with a 30-minute news bulletin as the successor to BBC TV Europe. At that time, the station had 700,000 subscribers - today it is available in 433 households worldwide. Eight months later, WSTV went on air 24 hours a day, initially only in Asia. Today, the station can be seen in over 200 countries and territories.
After a re-launch in 1995 and the renaming to BBC World, the channel changed its name again in 2008 to BBC World News and moved into the newsroom for all BBC services, the "World's News Room", in 2013.
Back then, the first news team consisted of six journalists from the World Service team and six from television news. Today, BBC World News has access to the expertise of thousands of journalists in over 100 cities and state-of-the-art studios worldwide.
