[2] Unlike the BBC World Service at the time, it was not funded by the British government through a grant-in-aid.

News headlines, trailers and other updates, known as "break fillers", were inserted to fill gaps in cases where no commercials were broadcast by the local provider.

Explaining why the company choose to carry BBC WSTV instead of CNN, Richard Li, who was head of Star TV at the time, cited American bias projected in CNN's coverage of the Gulf War, in an interview with The New York Times.

[6][7][8] BBC World Service Television programming was also carried in Africa on M-Net, launched on 15 April 1992, for 11 hours a day.

[10] BBC World Service Television news broadcasts were aired on Malaysia's TV1 until May 1994, with the BBC demanding that it would stop supply their content to Malaysia and should air their content without cuts,[11] which TV1's operator RTM think is unfair.

The sidebar of captions featured a vague wispy line style, similar to that used by WSTV bulletins.