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BGTV’s goal is to be the preeminent choke-point for news and information about Iran for the English speaking world. BGTV will be provide access to culturally resonant content where it is either unavailable or difficult to decipher. Ultimately, we aim to create an international community that facilitates the flow of content, resources and ideas. The channel features original content in the form of video based broadcast style programming (including daily updates, a weekly show, and special reports), audio podcasts, blogs, and articles.
Our mission is to build a community around culturally resonant content. BGTV is working to create efficiencies to better take advantage of existing content through social media tools and web 2.0 capabilities. Examples include a user generated citizen journalism platform, as well as a distribution platform for existing academic content related to Iran.
The 13 Aban demonstrations in Iran commemorating the US embassy take-over in 1979 will gain greater significance as we approach the next public demonstrations on Student day: 16 Azar (December 7).
As most analysts have pointed out, it is by now clear that the post-eletion demonstrations are not going away and that there are [...]
There is a certain buzz in Iranian papers about Ahmadinejad's trip to NYC last week. Echoing Israeli newspapers criticizing of Prime Minister Netanyahu's remarks at the UN , the Iranian media is celebrating the unseating of the state of Israel's primary justification for itself.