BBC Persian television is continuing to broadcast into Iran despite attempts to jam the station’s signal. The persistent interference began soon after BBC Persian began extended coverage of the death of leading reformist cleric Grand Ayatollah Hoseyn Ali Montazeri.
This includes the first airing of an exclusive interview with the grand ayatollah which was filmed before his death. The senior cleric, who had not been seen on Iranian television screens for 20 years, was one of Shia Islam’s most respected figures and a leading critic of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
The jamming began on Sunday 20 December and affected the Hotbird 6 satellite which carries the BBC’s international television and radio services in various languages as well as services from other broadcasters. BBC Persian television is also carried on other satellite networks including Telstar and Eutelsat W2M.
The BBC is looking at ways to increase the options for its Farsi-speaking audiences in Iran, Afghanistan and Tajikistan, which may include broadcasting on other satellites.
In June this year, BBC Persian television suffered similar deliberate attempts to interfere with its signal when airing extended coverage of the Iranian elections. At that time, the satellite operator traced the interference and confirmed it was coming from inside Iran.
BBC World Service Director, Peter Horrocks, said: “The fact that someone would go to these lengths to jam BBC Persian television’s signal is indicative of the impact we make in Iran. The Iranian people want to know the truth about what is happening in their country, and they know they will get impartial and independent news from the BBC. We’ll do everything we can to give them that news.”
(Source: BBC World Service Publicity)
on Dec 28th, 2009 at 21:27
It appears that BBC Persian has left the Hot Bird 6 satellite this afternoon, 28th December 2009, around 3pm GMT, replaced by an info card instructing viewers to turn to Telstar 12. The jamming has also thankfully stopped (which was affecting all unfortunate channels on the transponder, with R1 and Yes Italia also constantly suffering the same picture breakup and sound drop-outs, rendering them unwatchable).
on Jan 1st, 2010 at 23:26
Hi.
i am in iran & need anty filter to see the news.
please help me and send anty filtere program to my E-Mail please.
thank you.
on Jan 6th, 2010 at 05:55
Hii ,
because of station`s signal in Iran , I cannot watch your program via sattelite .
Please email me new frequency of your program.
Sincerely ,
Ali
on Jan 29th, 2010 at 19:09
Please send me your new Frequncy, beacuse in Iran we cant watch your program anymore.
thanks
on Feb 1st, 2010 at 21:50
Hi
please send me your new frequncy to hotbird,beacuse in Iran we cant watch your program anymore
Tanhks
on Feb 9th, 2010 at 15:50
dear sir
god day
could you pls send to me new frequecy of voa and bbc persian in hotbird and arab sat .
thanks and best rgd
on Feb 14th, 2010 at 22:59
Please send me your new Frequncy, beacuse in Iran we cant watch your program anymore.
thanks
on Feb 16th, 2010 at 11:35
15.0°W 12.608GHz Horizontal 19279Mbaud FEC2/3
From http://www.lyngsat.com/t12.html
on Feb 16th, 2010 at 11:43
More frequencies here: http://en.kingofsat.net/detail-bbcpersian.php
It also appears that the BBC are re-testing on Hotbird, as of a couple of weeks ago.
on Feb 17th, 2010 at 14:27
BBC Persian is, together with VOA TV Persian and three other Persian-language TV channels, now on Eutelsat W3A on 10.721 GHz h.
This satellite is on 7 deg. East, which means that a satellite antenna so far used for Hotbird has to be repointed just a little bit (as opposed to reception of 15 deg. West, which in Iran is very low in the sky). If you can access the BBC website: They have a video online that explains in detail how to realign the dish.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/persian/tv/2010/01/100108_eutelsat_tv_promo.shtml