The BBC.
Apr 6 2018
A range of strong dramas and live sport have helped BBC iPlayer to achieve its best ever February performance. Across the month more than 285 million programmes were watched by viewers, a 4 per cent year-on-year increase, with average daily requests of 10.2 million. The first episodes of new drama series Requiem and Collateral were […]
Mar 29 2018
BBC Worldwide today announced that its global factual brand BBC Earth will launch as a linear channel across MENA through the beIN DTH service on 5 April 2018. The agreement will also see BBC Earth extend its distribution in Turkey, launching on the region’s largest pay-tv operator Digiturk, on the same day. Pre-school brand CBeebies […]
Mar 28 2018
The BBC has set out its priorities for the year ahead in its Annual Plan published today. The far reaching plan for the next twelve months, outlines the importance of the BBC’s role in society and in tackling false information and fake news which threaten fact based public debate and trust in journalism. When the […]
Mar 19 2018
The BBC says it wants to keep FM radio for the foreseeable future rather than switch over entirely to digital. BBC director of radio and music Bob Shennan said that “audiences want choice”. “We need to do more in the UK before we consider a switchover and for that to be genuinely led by the […]
Mar 15 2018
Mar 8 2018
Speech by Anne Bulford, Deputy Director-General of the BBC to the Media & Telecoms Conference on Thursday 8 March 2018. It’s a pleasure to be here today. I’m particularly pleased to have the opportunity to speak on International Women’s Day. The BBC has been under the spotlight on gender and equality issues in recent months. […]
Feb 22 2018
The UK’s annual television licence fee is to rise to £150.50 from £147, the government has announced. The increase, which will come into effect on 1 April, follows last year’s rise to £147 from £145.50. Last year the government announced that the licence fee would rise in line with inflation for the next five years. […]
Dec 11 2017
Spectacular natural history programme Blue Planet II has become BBC iPlayer’s most popular programme of the year so far, with 4.2 million requests for the first episode. This overtakes the first episode of Tom Hardy’s Georgian-era drama Taboo by 133,000 requests to become the new frontrunner. The triumphant return of Doctor Foster proved popular with […]
Dec 5 2017
Wildlife fans can watch Blue Planet II in the best quality ever shown on the BBC from Sunday 10 December. The full seven part series will be available on BBC iPlayer in Ultra HD and High Dynamic Range (HDR) – the first time the BBC has shown an episode or series in such high quality […]
Dec 4 2017
Following the FIFA World Cup 2018 draw on Friday, BBC and ITV can now confirm which broadcaster will show which matches of next summer’s much anticipated event in Russia. The BBC will show England’s opening two games, which will see them face Tunisia (Monday 18 June, 7pm) and Panama (Sunday 24 June, 1pm). The BBC […]
Nov 29 2017
The BBC is today announcing it will merge BBC Studios and BBC Worldwide to form a single commercial organisation, to be called BBC Studios. At a time of an increasingly competitive and global market for production and distribution, this new organisational structure will bring the BBC into line with the rest of the industry, integrating […]
Apr 20 2018
Ofcom review of proposed BBC Scotland television channel
Ofcom has today published a consultation about our provisional decision to approve the launch of a new BBC television channel for audiences in Scotland. The BBC published detailed proposals for a BBC Scotland channel in November 2017. We announced in January that we would undertake a competition assessment to examine whether the public value offered […]
More
By Expat • BBC, Ofcom • • Tags: BBC Scotland