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YouView shareholders set to back future investment
YouView’s shareholders, including the BBC, are set to sign a new agreement to secure the…
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BBC to launch Guerrilla unit
The BBC is to create a new Birmingham-based digital innovation unit called the Guerrilla Group…
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BBC HD takes premier positions on Freesat
The BBC is moving the position of its HD channels on the Freesat platform to…
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BBC’s Taylor outlines iPlayer plans
The BBC iPlayer catch-up service will be extended from seven days to a 30-day window…
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TechUK calls for BBC to up tech sector support
Industry organisation TechUK has called on the BBC to “ramp up” its support for the…
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BBC launches iWonder factual homepage
The BBC has launched the homepage for its new factual and educational brand iWonder. First…
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BBC launches updated iPlayer
The BBC is rolling out an updated version of its iPlayer streaming service in a…
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BBC appoints culture department veteran as BBC Trust director
The BBC’s governing body, the BBC Trust, has appointed culture department veteran Jon Zeff as…
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BBC lobbying for licence fee hike
The BBC will push for an inflation-based increase in its annual licence fee, according to…
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Cohen: budgets may threaten BBC Four future
The BBC’s director of television has warned arts channel BBC Four could go the same…
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BBC confirms BBC Three 2015 closure plan
UK public broadcaster the BBC has confirmed that it is putting plans in motion to…
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BBC plan to take BBC3 online-only ‘not off the table’
The BBC has failed to rule out plans to shut down the linear version of…
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BBC and Sky reach zero retransmission fee agreement
The BBC and Sky have ended a long-running dispute about retransmission fees, agreeing that the…
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BBC Trust approves online store plan
The BBC’s governing body, the BBC Trust, has approved plans by the corporation to launch…
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BBC Worldwide’s Brit orders motoring series
The BBC’s new international channel brand Brit has commissioned its first series Mud, Sweat &…
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BBC’s Hall defends licence fee, calls for extension to iPlayer
BBC director-general Tony Hall has delivered a robust defence of the UK licence fee that…
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Amazon resurrects Ripper Street
Amazon’s UK streaming service is resurrecting Ripper Street, the period crime drama that UK public…
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BBC names acting controller of BBC Two and Four
The BBC has named Adam Barker as acting controller, BBC Two and BBC Four. BBC…
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BBC passes 300 million iPlayer requests in record month
The BBC’s iPlayer catch-up service celebrated its biggest ever month in January, surpassing 300 million…
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BBC unveils £8 million investment plan for World Service
The BBC World Service has pledged £8 million of new investment for digital and multiplatform…
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Janice Hadlow out as BBC Two controller
Janice Hadlow has stepped down as controller of UK channels BBC Two and BBC Four….
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BBC Trust calls for review into YouView investment
The BBC’s governing body, the BBC Trust, has called on the broadcaster to “carefully review…
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YouView partner structure in doubt as funding talks near end
UK pay TV operators BT and TalkTalk could emerge as the major shareholders in web-connected…
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BBC iPlayer requests up by a third, tablet use expands rapidly
Requests on the BBC iPlayer catch-up service grew by a third in 2013, with 2.2…
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BBC taken to task over Digital Media Initiative
The BBC was too optimistic about its ability to implement its ill-fated Digital Media Initiative…
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BBC’s Radio 1 hits a million YouTube subscribers
The BBC has hit the one million subscriber mark for the YouTube channel associated with…
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Digital UK stresses DTT value ahead of spectrum shakeup
The UK’s Freeview DTT platform returns almost £80 billion (€97 billion) to the economy and…
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BBC launches new series of interactive guides for mobile and tablet
The BBC has launched iWonder, a new branded series of interactive guides designed to allow…
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CBBC to premiere Henry Winkler series on iPlayer
UK kids channel CBBC will launch its new comedy drama series Hank Zipzer on its online…
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BBC claims most-watched UK sports broadcaster title
The BBC claims it was the most-watched sports broadcaster in the UK last year, despite…