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BBC Asian Network

March 29, 2023

"Asian Network" redirects here. For the lists of Asian radio stations, see List of radio stations in Asia.

BBC Asian Network is a British Asian radio station owned and operated by the BBC. The station's target audience is people "with an interest in British Asian lifestyles",[1] especially British Asians between the ages of 18 and 34.[2] The station has production centres at Broadcasting House in London and The Mailbox in Birmingham.

BBC Asian Network
Logo used since 2022
Broadcast areaUnited Kingdom and Internationally via Satellite and BBC Sounds
Frequency
Programming
FormatMusic, News & Entertainment
Ownership
OwnerBBC
History
First air date
  • 4 November 1996; 26 years ago (1996-11-04) (on AM in the Midlands)
  • 28 October 2002; 20 years ago (2002-10-28) (nationally on DAB)
Links
WebcastBBC Sounds
Websitewww.bbc.co.uk/asiannetwork/

The station broadcasts mainly in English, but has retained Sunday evening shows in South Asian languages. The Asian Network covers only the Indian subcontinent, with the rest of the continent – such as Japan and China – not covered by the station.

The station's output consists largely of music and talk programmes.[3] On Fridays at 4:00 p.m., the station broadcasts The Official Asian Music Chart,[4] compiled by the Official Charts Company and based on sales and streams across a seven-day period.[5]

According to RAJAR, the station broadcasts to a weekly audience of 460,000 with a listening share of 0.3% as of December 2022.[6]

History

Origins as a regional programme/station

By 1949, the BBC had introduced their first weekly Bengali language programme, Anjuman, through the efforts of Nazir Ahmed and Nurul Momen. Momen also conducted a children's programme titled Kakoli. The BBC was later joined by more Bengalis such as Fateh Lohani and Fazle Lohani.[7] BBC television had also broadcast an Asian news programme, Nai Zindagi Naya Jeevan, since 1968 from its studios in Birmingham; this series followed a traditional news and current affairs format.

In 1976 BBC Radio Leicester, responding to the growth of the size of the South Asian population and rising racial tension in Leicester, introduced a daily community show called Six Fifteen, aimed primarily at that community in the city. By 1977, CRE research showed that the programme regularly reached 67% of the South Asian community in Leicester. BBC Radio Leicester dominated the provision of Asian programming on BBC local radio and by 1990 was producing one third of the output.[8] In 1989, BBC WM, the BBC radio station for the Midlands, followed Radio Leicester's lead and introduced a similar daily show as part of a new Midlands Asian Network.

On 30 October 1989, The Asian Network was launched on the MW transmitters of BBC WM and BBC Radio Leicester, with a combined output of 57 hours per week. This was extended to 86 hours a week in 1995 and on 4 November 1996 the station became a full-time service, on air for eighteen hours a day in Leicester and Birmingham, and was relaunched as the BBC Asian Network with programming also broadcast on the MW transmitters of stations with large Asian communities (with the exception of BBC GLR which was an FM-only station).

Station goes national

 
BBC Asian Network studio at The Mailbox shopping centre, Birmingham

In November 1999, as part of the addition of a suite of BBC and commercial radio services to the Sky Digital satellite television platform, BBC Asian Network was made available to Sky viewers alongside BBC Radio 1, BBC Radio 2, BBC Radio 3, BBC Radio 4, BBC Radio 5 Live, BBC World Service, BBC Radio Scotland, BBC Radio Wales and BBC Radio Ulster.

On Monday 28 October 2002, it was relaunched for the DAB Digital Radio system, now broadcasting nationwide.

In January 2006, the BBC announced that they were investing an extra £1m in the BBC Asian Network, and increasing the number of full-time staff by 30% in a bid to make British South Asian interests "a mainstream part of the corporation's output".

2006 branding and schedule changes

In April 2006, the first wave of schedule changes were introduced with further changes coming into effect on 14 May and 21 May, with weekend changes occurring from 17 June.[9] In August 2007, the Asian Network received a new logo as part of a general re-brand of all national BBC stations. In 2009, this was re-branded again to add prominence to the Asian aspect of the logo.

Drama output until 2010

One of the most significant programmes in the Asian Network line-up was an ongoing Asian soap opera Silver Street, which was first broadcast in 2004. Storylines focused on the lives of a British South Asian community in an unnamed English town, with themes that generally related to issues that affect the daily lives of British South Asians and their neighbours.

Following the reduction of episode lengths to five minutes per day and continued falling listenership, on 16 November 2009 the BBC announced they would be cancelling Silver Street.[10] The last episode was broadcast in March 2010. The cancellation grew out of many criticisms of the Asian Network in the BBC Trust's Annual Report.[11]

Silver Street was replaced by monthly half-hour dramas and in August 2010, BBC Asian Network announced it would be launching a new drama season from 1 September 2010.[12]

2020s

In March 2022, BBC Introducing on Asian Network with Jasmine Takhar was nominated for Best Radio Show at the Music Week Awards. The show is the first from the Asian Network to be nominated by the Music Week Awards.

In February 2023, the Asian Network breakfast show with Nikita Kanda went on a three city tour marking the first tour by the network. The cities included Liverpool, Manchester and Glasgow.

In March 2023, BBC Introducing on Asian Network with Jasmine Takhar was nominated for Best Radio Show at the Music Week Awards for the second year running. The show also celebrated International Women’s Day by selecting 4 female talent for a live session at the world famous Maida Vale studios hosted by Jasmine Takhar. The talent include SHVVN, Nova, Saloni and Diana Drill.

Love Island season 9 winners Sanam and Kai co-hosted the Asian Network breakfast show with Nikita Kanda.

Threat of closure, performance and controversies

Threat of closure

On 26 February 2010 The Times reported that Mark Thompson, Director General of the BBC, proposed closing the station in a bid to scale back BBC operations and allow commercial rivals more room.[13] The proposal of closure – along with BBC Radio 6 Music – was later confirmed on 2 March.[14]

A letter was written to the BBC Trust and signed by various people – although the actual number of signatories was artificially boosted with many signing their name more than once (as both a single name and as part of different collectives).[15]

On the official Asian Network message boards, listeners advocated keeping their station at the expense of 6 Music,[16] although the BBC Trust later rejected plans to close 6 Music and also rejected the plans to close the Asian Network.[17]

On 14 March 2011, the BBC announced it was reconsidering its plan to close the station in favour of reducing its budget by 50%.[18]

Sliding audiences and increasing costs

 
BBC Asian Network previous logo (2012–2022)

In July 2009 it was revealed that the Asian Network had lost over 20% of its listeners in a single year and, per listener, was the most costly and expensive BBC radio station to operate.[11]

In 2011, the BBC ruled there would be a 46% reduction in the Asian Network's budget and a declared target of 600,000 listeners a week; with actual audience numbers only peaking at 507,000.[19] In 2012, audience numbers fell even further; peaking at only 453,000.[20] Even with the budget reductions, in 2013 the Asian Network had the largest budget of the BBC's digital-only radio stations at £13m; despite having the lowest audience figures by far.[21]

RAJAR's figures in 2014 showed that the Asian Network had at last briefly met the target set four years earlier, finally peaking at 619,000 listeners in Q4.[22] However, the Asian Network was noted as being the BBC's only station – across both television and radio – whose Appreciation Index measurably fell in 2014.[23]

By May 2015, the Asian Network had once again lost a substantial number of listeners, with the RAJAR reporting a peak of just 562,000 listeners – a loss of 57,000 from the previous quarter.[24]

In 2016–17, the Asian Network had the second highest cost-per-user of all the BBC's radio stations, at 3.4p per hour,[25] the second highest budget of the BBC's digital-only radio stations at £7.5m[26] and by far the lowest audience figures of all the BBC's stations.

In 2017/18, it was noted the station not only remained as having the highest cost-per-user of all the BBC radio output, but whose costs also increased – rising from 3.4p per hour the previous year to 3.7p per hour. The audience Appreciation Index figure did not increase, remaining at 80.3; and the average length of time spent on the channel dramatically fell from 06:11 to 05:19 – the biggest fall of all of the BBC's radio stations.[27]

In 2018/19, the Asian Network's annual budget increased from £7m to £8m, but the station continued to perform poorly: population reach was down again to 1.1%, time spent on the channel per week fell again to 5:12 and an increase in cost per user per hour (up to 5p).[28]

The station's poor performance continued into 2019/20, where it was noted time spent on the channel fell dramatically again by 20% to just 4:07, while the cost per use per hour had increased up to 6p, remaining the BBC's most expensive-per-listener station.[29] Peak audience figures plunged down to 519,000 listeners, losing 13.8%[30] and in 2021/22, the stations audience reach fell to just 1%[31] – the station continues to have by far the lowest audience figures and highest cost-per-user figures of all the BBC's stations.

Rotherham sex abuse scandal controversy

In 2018, the station's Head of News Arif Ansari was charged under the Sexual Offences (Amendment) Act 1992 after a reporter named a victim of the Rotherham child sexual exploitation scandal during a live news bulletin.[32][33] In January 2019, he was cleared when a judge ruled that Ansari was not at fault and had been incorrectly told the name of the victim was a pseudonym. He was the first BBC editor to be tried under the legislation.[34]

Notable presenters

Former presenters

References

  1. ^ BBC - About Asian Network
  2. ^ BBC Radio - Information for suppliers to Radio - BBC Asian Network
  3. ^ BBC Asian Network
  4. ^ BBC Asian Network - The Official Asian Music Chart
  5. ^ Asian Music Chart Top 40 | Official Charts Company
  6. ^ https://www.rajar.co.uk/listening/quarterly_listening.php. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  7. ^ Hayat, Anupam (2012). "Ahmed, Nazir". In Islam, Sirajul; Miah, Sajahan; Khanam, Mahfuza; Ahmed, Sabbir (eds.). Banglapedia: the National Encyclopedia of Bangladesh (Online ed.). Dhaka, Bangladesh: Banglapedia Trust, Asiatic Society of Bangladesh. ISBN 984-32-0576-6. OCLC 52727562. Retrieved 24 March 2023.
  8. ^ McCarthy, Liam (2020). Dr. Connecting with new Asian communities: BBC Local Radio 1967-1990 (thesis). University of Leicester. doi:10.25392/leicester.data.11798622. Retrieved 16 June 2021.
  9. ^ The New Schedule, April 2006
  10. ^ Image Dissectors
  11. ^ a b Changes to drama on BBC Asian Network BBC Press Release, 16 November 2009.
  12. ^ Press Release, 8 August 2010
  13. ^ "BBC signals an end to era of expansion" 2010-02-26 Retrieved 2010-02-260
  14. ^ John Plunkett "BBC confirms plans to axe 6 Music and Asian Network", The Guardian 2 March 2010
  15. ^ "BBC Asian Network is a vital platform", [1], The Guardian 6 March 2010
  16. ^ BBC – Asian Network closure: BBC consultation
  17. ^ BBC Trust rejects 6 Music closure plan [2] BBC News, 5 July 2010
  18. ^ "BBC considers Asian Network U-turn". BBC News. 14 March 2011.
  19. ^ RadioCentre's response to the BBC Trust's service licence review of Asian Network [3]
  20. ^ . Archived from the original on 5 February 2013. Retrieved 31 January 2013.
  21. ^ BBC full financial statements 2012–2013
  22. ^ "RAJAR".
  23. ^ "BBC Annual Report and Accounts 2013/14" (PDF). BBC. 21 July 2014.
  24. ^ "Radio 4 Extra breaks record to become UK's biggest digital-only station". BBC. 21 May 2015.
  25. ^ "BBC Annual Report 2016–17" (PDF).
  26. ^ "Asian Network Service Licence April 2016" (PDF).
  27. ^ "BBC Annual Report 2017/18" (PDF). Retrieved 2 January 2019.
  28. ^ "BBC Annual Report 2018/19" (PDF). Retrieved 26 November 2019.
  29. ^ "BBC Group Annual Report and Accounts" (PDF). (PDF) from the original on 19 September 2020. Retrieved 7 June 2021.
  30. ^ "RAJAR: BBC Asian Network loses over 80k listeners in Q4/19". BizAsia | Media, Entertainment, Showbiz, Brit, Events and Music. 6 February 2020. Retrieved 7 June 2021.
  31. ^ "BBC Group Annual Report and Accounts 2021/22" (PDF).
  32. ^ "BBC journalist Arif Ansari to go on trial accused of naming Rotherham grooming victim". The Independent. 11 October 2018. Retrieved 9 January 2019.
  33. ^ "BBC editor denies naming abuse victim". BBC News. 11 October 2018. Retrieved 9 January 2019.
  34. ^ "BBC Asian Network editor found not guilty of 'honest mistake'". BBC News. 18 January 2019. Retrieved 11 August 2021.

External links

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Asian Network redirects here For the lists of Asian radio stations see List of radio stations in Asia This article needs additional citations for verification Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources Unsourced material may be challenged and removed Find sources BBC Asian Network news newspapers books scholar JSTOR November 2022 Learn how and when to remove this template message BBC Asian Network is a British Asian radio station owned and operated by the BBC The station s target audience is people with an interest in British Asian lifestyles 1 especially British Asians between the ages of 18 and 34 2 The station has production centres at Broadcasting House in London and The Mailbox in Birmingham BBC Asian NetworkLogo used since 2022London and BirminghamBroadcast areaUnited Kingdom and Internationally via Satellite and BBC SoundsFrequencyDAB 12B BBC National DABAM 828 kHz Wolverhampton AM 837 kHz Leicester AM 1449 kHz Peterborough AM 1458 kHz Birmingham Freeview 709Freesat 709Sky 0119Virgin Media 912ProgrammingFormatMusic News amp EntertainmentOwnershipOwnerBBCHistoryFirst air date4 November 1996 26 years ago 1996 11 04 on AM in the Midlands 28 October 2002 20 years ago 2002 10 28 nationally on DAB LinksWebcastBBC SoundsWebsitewww wbr bbc wbr co wbr uk wbr asiannetwork wbr The station broadcasts mainly in English but has retained Sunday evening shows in South Asian languages The Asian Network covers only the Indian subcontinent with the rest of the continent such as Japan and China not covered by the station The station s output consists largely of music and talk programmes 3 On Fridays at 4 00 p m the station broadcasts The Official Asian Music Chart 4 compiled by the Official Charts Company and based on sales and streams across a seven day period 5 According to RAJAR the station broadcasts to a weekly audience of 460 000 with a listening share of 0 3 as of December 2022 6 Contents 1 History 1 1 Origins as a regional programme station 1 2 Station goes national 1 3 2006 branding and schedule changes 1 4 Drama output until 2010 1 5 2020s 2 Threat of closure performance and controversies 2 1 Threat of closure 2 2 Sliding audiences and increasing costs 2 3 Rotherham sex abuse scandal controversy 3 Notable presenters 3 1 Former presenters 4 References 5 External linksHistory EditOrigins as a regional programme station Edit By 1949 the BBC had introduced their first weekly Bengali language programme Anjuman through the efforts of Nazir Ahmed and Nurul Momen Momen also conducted a children s programme titled Kakoli The BBC was later joined by more Bengalis such as Fateh Lohani and Fazle Lohani 7 BBC television had also broadcast an Asian news programme Nai Zindagi Naya Jeevan since 1968 from its studios in Birmingham this series followed a traditional news and current affairs format In 1976 BBC Radio Leicester responding to the growth of the size of the South Asian population and rising racial tension in Leicester introduced a daily community show called Six Fifteen aimed primarily at that community in the city By 1977 CRE research showed that the programme regularly reached 67 of the South Asian community in Leicester BBC Radio Leicester dominated the provision of Asian programming on BBC local radio and by 1990 was producing one third of the output 8 In 1989 BBC WM the BBC radio station for the Midlands followed Radio Leicester s lead and introduced a similar daily show as part of a new Midlands Asian Network On 30 October 1989 The Asian Network was launched on the MW transmitters of BBC WM and BBC Radio Leicester with a combined output of 57 hours per week This was extended to 86 hours a week in 1995 and on 4 November 1996 the station became a full time service on air for eighteen hours a day in Leicester and Birmingham and was relaunched as the BBC Asian Network with programming also broadcast on the MW transmitters of stations with large Asian communities with the exception of BBC GLR which was an FM only station Station goes national Edit BBC Asian Network studio at The Mailbox shopping centre Birmingham In November 1999 as part of the addition of a suite of BBC and commercial radio services to the Sky Digital satellite television platform BBC Asian Network was made available to Sky viewers alongside BBC Radio 1 BBC Radio 2 BBC Radio 3 BBC Radio 4 BBC Radio 5 Live BBC World Service BBC Radio Scotland BBC Radio Wales and BBC Radio Ulster On Monday 28 October 2002 it was relaunched for the DAB Digital Radio system now broadcasting nationwide In January 2006 the BBC announced that they were investing an extra 1m in the BBC Asian Network and increasing the number of full time staff by 30 in a bid to make British South Asian interests a mainstream part of the corporation s output 2006 branding and schedule changes Edit In April 2006 the first wave of schedule changes were introduced with further changes coming into effect on 14 May and 21 May with weekend changes occurring from 17 June 9 In August 2007 the Asian Network received a new logo as part of a general re brand of all national BBC stations In 2009 this was re branded again to add prominence to the Asian aspect of the logo Drama output until 2010 Edit One of the most significant programmes in the Asian Network line up was an ongoing Asian soap opera Silver Street which was first broadcast in 2004 Storylines focused on the lives of a British South Asian community in an unnamed English town with themes that generally related to issues that affect the daily lives of British South Asians and their neighbours Following the reduction of episode lengths to five minutes per day and continued falling listenership on 16 November 2009 the BBC announced they would be cancelling Silver Street 10 The last episode was broadcast in March 2010 The cancellation grew out of many criticisms of the Asian Network in the BBC Trust s Annual Report 11 Silver Street was replaced by monthly half hour dramas and in August 2010 BBC Asian Network announced it would be launching a new drama season from 1 September 2010 12 2020s Edit In March 2022 BBC Introducing on Asian Network with Jasmine Takhar was nominated for Best Radio Show at the Music Week Awards The show is the first from the Asian Network to be nominated by the Music Week Awards In February 2023 the Asian Network breakfast show with Nikita Kanda went on a three city tour marking the first tour by the network The cities included Liverpool Manchester and Glasgow In March 2023 BBC Introducing on Asian Network with Jasmine Takhar was nominated for Best Radio Show at the Music Week Awards for the second year running The show also celebrated International Women s Day by selecting 4 female talent for a live session at the world famous Maida Vale studios hosted by Jasmine Takhar The talent include SHVVN Nova Saloni and Diana Drill Love Island season 9 winners Sanam and Kai co hosted the Asian Network breakfast show with Nikita Kanda Threat of closure performance and controversies EditThreat of closure Edit On 26 February 2010 The Times reported that Mark Thompson Director General of the BBC proposed closing the station in a bid to scale back BBC operations and allow commercial rivals more room 13 The proposal of closure along with BBC Radio 6 Music was later confirmed on 2 March 14 A letter was written to the BBC Trust and signed by various people although the actual number of signatories was artificially boosted with many signing their name more than once as both a single name and as part of different collectives 15 On the official Asian Network message boards listeners advocated keeping their station at the expense of 6 Music 16 although the BBC Trust later rejected plans to close 6 Music and also rejected the plans to close the Asian Network 17 On 14 March 2011 the BBC announced it was reconsidering its plan to close the station in favour of reducing its budget by 50 18 Sliding audiences and increasing costs Edit BBC Asian Network previous logo 2012 2022 In July 2009 it was revealed that the Asian Network had lost over 20 of its listeners in a single year and per listener was the most costly and expensive BBC radio station to operate 11 In 2011 the BBC ruled there would be a 46 reduction in the Asian Network s budget and a declared target of 600 000 listeners a week with actual audience numbers only peaking at 507 000 19 In 2012 audience numbers fell even further peaking at only 453 000 20 Even with the budget reductions in 2013 the Asian Network had the largest budget of the BBC s digital only radio stations at 13m despite having the lowest audience figures by far 21 RAJAR s figures in 2014 showed that the Asian Network had at last briefly met the target set four years earlier finally peaking at 619 000 listeners in Q4 22 However the Asian Network was noted as being the BBC s only station across both television and radio whose Appreciation Index measurably fell in 2014 23 By May 2015 the Asian Network had once again lost a substantial number of listeners with the RAJAR reporting a peak of just 562 000 listeners a loss of 57 000 from the previous quarter 24 In 2016 17 the Asian Network had the second highest cost per user of all the BBC s radio stations at 3 4p per hour 25 the second highest budget of the BBC s digital only radio stations at 7 5m 26 and by far the lowest audience figures of all the BBC s stations In 2017 18 it was noted the station not only remained as having the highest cost per user of all the BBC radio output but whose costs also increased rising from 3 4p per hour the previous year to 3 7p per hour The audience Appreciation Index figure did not increase remaining at 80 3 and the average length of time spent on the channel dramatically fell from 06 11 to 05 19 the biggest fall of all of the BBC s radio stations 27 In 2018 19 the Asian Network s annual budget increased from 7m to 8m but the station continued to perform poorly population reach was down again to 1 1 time spent on the channel per week fell again to 5 12 and an increase in cost per user per hour up to 5p 28 The station s poor performance continued into 2019 20 where it was noted time spent on the channel fell dramatically again by 20 to just 4 07 while the cost per use per hour had increased up to 6p remaining the BBC s most expensive per listener station 29 Peak audience figures plunged down to 519 000 listeners losing 13 8 30 and in 2021 22 the stations audience reach fell to just 1 31 the station continues to have by far the lowest audience figures and highest cost per user figures of all the BBC s stations Rotherham sex abuse scandal controversy Edit In 2018 the station s Head of News Arif Ansari was charged under the Sexual Offences Amendment Act 1992 after a reporter named a victim of the Rotherham child sexual exploitation scandal during a live news bulletin 32 33 In January 2019 he was cleared when a judge ruled that Ansari was not at fault and had been incorrectly told the name of the victim was a pseudonym He was the first BBC editor to be tried under the legislation 34 Notable presenters EditJassa Ahluwalia Nadia Ali Bobby Friction Panjabi Hit Squad Nayha Nikita Kanda Mistah Islah Jasmine Takhar Noreen Khan Islah Abdur Rahman Former presenters Edit Yasser Aasmah Mir Adil Ray Ameet Chana Anita Rani Harpz Kaur DJ Kayper Nikki Bedi Pathaan Murtz Nerm Sonia Deol Tommy Sandhu Nihal Arthanayake Rozina Sini Sunny and Shay Preeya Kalidas Raj and Pablo Ashanti OmkarReferences Edit BBC About Asian Network BBC Radio Information for suppliers to Radio BBC Asian Network BBC Asian Network BBC Asian Network The Official Asian Music Chart Asian Music Chart Top 40 Official Charts Company https www rajar co uk listening quarterly listening php a href Template Cite web html title Template Cite web cite web a Missing or empty title help Hayat Anupam 2012 Ahmed Nazir In Islam Sirajul Miah Sajahan Khanam Mahfuza Ahmed Sabbir eds Banglapedia the National Encyclopedia of Bangladesh Online ed Dhaka Bangladesh Banglapedia Trust Asiatic Society of Bangladesh ISBN 984 32 0576 6 OCLC 52727562 Retrieved 24 March 2023 McCarthy Liam 2020 Dr Connecting with new Asian communities BBC Local Radio 1967 1990 thesis University of Leicester doi 10 25392 leicester data 11798622 Retrieved 16 June 2021 The New Schedule April 2006 Image Dissectors a b Changes to drama on BBC Asian Network BBC Press Release 16 November 2009 Press Release 8 August 2010 BBC signals an end to era of expansion 2010 02 26 Retrieved 2010 02 260 John Plunkett BBC confirms plans to axe 6 Music and Asian Network The Guardian 2 March 2010 BBC Asian Network is a vital platform 1 The Guardian 6 March 2010 BBC Asian Network closure BBC consultation BBC Trust rejects 6 Music closure plan 2 BBC News 5 July 2010 BBC considers Asian Network U turn BBC News 14 March 2011 RadioCentre s response to the BBC Trust s service licence review of Asian Network 3 RAJAR BBC Asian Network loses 130k listeners Archived from the original on 5 February 2013 Retrieved 31 January 2013 BBC full financial statements 2012 2013 RAJAR BBC Annual Report and Accounts 2013 14 PDF BBC 21 July 2014 Radio 4 Extra breaks record to become UK s biggest digital only station BBC 21 May 2015 BBC Annual Report 2016 17 PDF Asian Network Service Licence April 2016 PDF BBC Annual Report 2017 18 PDF Retrieved 2 January 2019 BBC Annual Report 2018 19 PDF Retrieved 26 November 2019 BBC Group Annual Report and Accounts PDF Archived PDF from the original on 19 September 2020 Retrieved 7 June 2021 RAJAR BBC Asian Network loses over 80k listeners in Q4 19 BizAsia Media Entertainment Showbiz Brit Events and Music 6 February 2020 Retrieved 7 June 2021 BBC Group Annual Report and Accounts 2021 22 PDF BBC journalist Arif Ansari to go on trial accused of naming Rotherham grooming victim The Independent 11 October 2018 Retrieved 9 January 2019 BBC editor denies naming abuse victim BBC News 11 October 2018 Retrieved 9 January 2019 BBC Asian Network editor found not guilty of honest mistake BBC News 18 January 2019 Retrieved 11 August 2021 External links EditBBC Asian Network at BBC Online Origins of BBC Asian Network BBC Asian Network relaunched on DAB at bbc co uk Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title BBC Asian Network amp oldid 1146390443, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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