The BBC.
Jun 26 2018
The BBC is to set up a new design and engineering hub in Glasgow, investing £4m and recruiting an additional 60 people into technology and design-led roles over the next three years. The new facility will join the existing hubs in London and Salford. The new hub of more than 110 people – which will […]
Jun 22 2018
The BBC is reaching a record weekly audience of 376m people, new figures published today reveal. The figures – the Global Audience Measure (GAM) – show how many adults the BBC reached weekly with its news and entertainment content in the year 2017/18. The BBC World Service, which has just undertaken its biggest expansion since […]
Jun 8 2018
BBC Two Wales will launch in HD later this year – enabling BBC Wales to deliver all its programming in HD for the first time. BBC Two Wales HD will be available on Freeview HD, Youview, BBC iPlayer and other DTT HD platforms. The precise launch dates will be confirmed shortly. BBC Cymru Wales Director […]
Apr 20 2018
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 […]
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. […]
Jun 26 2018
Introducing the first version of BBC Sounds
Over the past year or so we’ve talked a lot about how we need to reinvent the BBC for a new generation. Today we’re releasing the first version of a brand new audio app from the BBC. Available to download for free from Apple, Google and Amazon app stores from later today, BBC Sounds brings […]
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