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BBC Bulgaria Goes Silent Dec 23

Politics | December 19, 2005, Monday

BBC Bulgaria will air its last one-hour program December 23 at 6 pm local time, the Bulgarian section of the British broadcaster announced.

BBC Bulgaria listeners will have the opportunity to hear interviews with journalists from the times of the Cold War and learn more about the highlights in the radio's 65-year history.

At the end of October BBC World Service announced 10 foreign language services, including the broadcast in Bulgarian, will be closed next year.

The move is part of a 30 million pounds restructuring of the World Service and will fund the launch of an Arabic-language television service. The channel will initially broadcast 12 hours a day and will be the BBC's first publicly funded global TV service.

Broadcasts in Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Greek, Hungarian, Kazakh, Polish, Slovak, Slovene and Thai will cease by March 2006.

The World Service now provides news in English and 42 other languages and is funded by a Foreign Office grant.

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