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BBC Studios launches channels on Vodafone Romania

November 1, 2024

BBC Studios has announced that three BBC-branded channels are now available to the Romanian market through Vodafone Romania. The European telco will offer these channels through its Vodafone TV service and the Vodafone TV+ platform to residential and corporate subscribers.

The partnership between BBC Studios and Vodafone Romania entails a multiyear inclusion of BBC Earth, BBC First and BBC News in the basic package offered by Vodafone to its customers.

On BBC Earth viewers can look forward to Big Cats 24/7, a new, unfiltered observational wildlife series, in which an elite camera team captures the dramatic lives of African big cats in the Okavango Delta, Botswana. Following individual lions, cheetahs and leopards for six months, over two extreme seasons, this series shows their battle to survive in an increasingly challenging world. From unprecedented wildfire to flood and extreme drought, the cats and camera crew are tested to their limits. New episodes air each Sunday.

BBC First will feature a four-part thriller series called Six Four. Inspired by a best-selling Japanese novel of the same name, the drama is set primarily in Glasgow, and is a compelling story of kidnap, corruption, betrayal and an uncompromising search for the truth, when Chris and Michelle O’Neill’s (Kevin McKidd and Vinette Robinson) teenage daughter goes missing. The show will premiere on November 5th. Other BBC First highlights in the coming weeks include the legal drama series The Split starring Nicola Walker and Stephen Mangan, set in the fast-paced world of London’s high-end divorce circuit. Viewers across Romania will also get a chance to watch the hit sitcom Ghosts and the popular crime series Death in Paradise.

BBC News will only be aired in the original English, while BBC Earth and BBC First will be available fully localised with Romanian subtitles.

Bartosz Witak, General Manager for CEE at BBC Studios, said: ‘We are delighted to expand our reach on the Romanian market. It means that even more Romanian viewers will be able to experience the best of British storytelling and factual entertainment, while also having convenient access to some of the most reliable news reporting in the world. All that thanks to our great partners in Vodafone Romania, with whom we look forward to a long and fruitful collaboration.’

Nedim Baytorun, Director of the Consumer Division at Vodafone Romania, added: ‘The addition of the BBC channels in our TV portfolio underscores our continuous commitment to enhance the experience we are offering our clients with our television service and OTT platform. By partnering with BBC Studios, we aim to provide our customers with access to high-quality productions, significantly enriching their viewing options with a diverse range of content, alongside the other channels already included in the TV grid.”

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