Editing International broadcasting (section)

=== Television ===
International broadcasting via 24 hour TV news channels has its origins in North America in the early 1980s. CNN technically was the first 24-hour international news channel as it was made available in Canada soon after launch. The BBC World Service considered setting up a global TV news channel as far back as 1975, but abandoned the idea for internal reasons.

Notwithstanding a large number of international 24-hour television news and information broadcasters, the television percentage of viewers is still fairly small when compared to global radio listener numbers.

The rural populations of Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia (as well as East Asia) have radio listener bases that are far larger than the largest international TV broadcaster could hope for, yet they could be considered underserved since the end of the Cold War (when these regions had more radio broadcasts targeted at them).

==== Streaming video sites ====
Many international television broadcasters (as well as domestic television broadcasters) have set up accounts on streaming video sites like [[YouTube]] to allow their news and information broadcasts to be globally distributed. The viewer numbers for these sites may seem huge. Cable, TVRO and terrestrial television broadcasters probably have 100 to 1,000 times larger audiences for their international broadcasting content.

International broadcasters known to maintain their own streaming video sites (not authoritative):

* [[ABC Australia (Southeast Asian TV channel)|ABC Australia]]
* [[ABS-CBN News Channel]] (ANC)
* [[Al Jazeera Arabic|Al Jazeera]]
* [[BBC World News]]
* [[CNN International]]
* [[DD News]]
* [[Deutsche Welle]]
* [[France 24]]
* [[i24NEWS]]
* [[RT (TV network)|RT]]
* [[Sky News]]
* [[WION (TV channel)|WION]]