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Kabul: The BBC’s Farsi radio service went off the air on Sunday 26th of March after 82 years of broadcasting.
BBC Persian Radio has been providing information for several generations of its audience in Afghanistan, Iran and Tajikistan.
The corporation announced the closure of BBC Persian radio in September as part of a wider plan to cut costs to World Service channels and shift focus on digital content production.
At least 382 people will lose their jobs at the BBC World Service. The World Service had said it aims to save £28.5m by closing Arabic and Persian radio stations, part of a broader attempt to save £500m annually. The corporation will also stop producing radio output in 10 other languages, including Chinese and Hindi.
On January 27th the British Broadcasting Corporation silenced its oldest foreign-language radio service, bbc Arabic.
