1. The BBC is the largest broadcast news operation in the world, producing around 120 hours of output daily, with more than 2,000 journalists and 70 international newsgathering bureaux.
2. BBC World News is constantly monitored in the White House, the United Nations, NATO Headquarters, and European Commission and by the Governments and international organisations around the world.
3. BBC World News reaches more Central and Eastern Europeans every month than any other international English language news channel, according to CEMS Summer 2008.
4. In Russia, BBC World News is the No.1 English language international news channel, according to CEMS Summer 2008.
5. BBC World News has some powerful allies - according to comScore, BBC.com has 29 million unique users every month (ex-UK, 10/07)
6. BBC World News has a permanent presence in some of the most dangerous places in the world. It has maintained a permanent office in Baghdad from the time of Saddam Hussein, through the war and subsequent insurgency, to the events of today. The BBC has had a bureau in Kabul almost continuously since 1988. No other British or American broadcast news organisation has a permanent bureau in Afghanistan.
7. The major BBC hub news bureau in Washington now has a dual role, providing American news to BBC audiences at home and abroad, and producing nightly news bulletins to BBC America for broadcast across the USA. BBC World News can be seen by up to 90 million households in the United States.
8. As travel has boomed, so has viewing in hotels. More than 2 million affluent Europeans watch BBC World News in hotels each month, according to EMS Summer 2008.
9. As well as success in Europe, so high-flyers continue to come to BBC World News from Asia. Ipsos's BE-Asia found more high earning Asian business-people watch BBC World News (46.3% among all earning $500k+ on BE-Asia) than any other programme on CNN.
10. Compared to other major international news channels, BBC World News is the most cost-efficient, delivering the highest reach for your advertising budget, according to EMS & CEMS Summer 2008 ($1m spend at fixed price rate card).
For more information on these and other facts, contact alan.fagan@bbc.com