Singapore – BBC Worldwide has inked a deal that will see the inaugural launch of three of BBC’s pay-TV channels in Cambodia – BBC World News, BBC Knowledge and BBC Lifestyle on Cambodia’s newest digital pay-TV platform, One TV.

BBC World News, BBC Knowledge and BBC Lifestyle will now be potentially available to the 1.2 million households subscribing to the Cambodian DTT service.

BBC World News is the BBC’s commercially-funded international 24-hour news and information channel.  BBC Knowledge showcases high-quality factual entertainment from the world’s foremost producers of non-fiction and documentary programming; while BBC Lifestyle offers inspiration for home, family and life with programmes on home and design, food, fashion and style, to entertain, engage and inspire viewers.

“We are very excited to officially launch our channels in Cambodia,” commented Mark Whitehead, Senior Vice President and General Manager of BBC Worldwide Channels Asia. “We ended last year with introducing BBC World News, BBC Lifestyle and CBeebies in Burma for the first time; and we have kicked off 2013 with entry in another new market – Cambodia – where we are proud to be delivering our wide range of highly rated and award-winning programming to viewers. We are confident that this year, we will deliver our great content to even more new viewers in Asia.”

Colin Lawrence, Director of Distribution, Global News Limited, said, “This latest partnership the BBC has undertaken with One TV is another important foothold for BBC World News – not just in Asia, but globally; BBC World News is fresh from announcing landmark distribution deals in Burma, and in the U.S. We could not be entering the Cambodian market at a better time – the channel has just relaunched from new, state-of-the-art studios in central London in an ongoing commitment to its viewers to bring them the highest quality in newsgathering, production, along with its already established reputation as a global news channel that delivers accurate and impartial news.”