The BBC World Service has outlined plans to accelerate its digital offering and increase impact with audiences around the globe. But numerous services will close, and 382 jobs will be lost.
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The Rugby League World Cup takes place in England this autumn, and the BBC has confirmed it will broadcast all 61 games from the men’s, women’s and wheelchair tournaments.
The BBC has confirmed further details of how it will cover The State Funeral of Her Majesty The Queen across television, radio, iPlayer and BBC Sounds.
The BBC will carry a live stream of the HM The Queen’s lying-in-state for the benefit of those who wat to pay their respects, but who cannot come to London or who are physically unable to queue.
BBC Cymru Wales will show Wales’s international Women’s Football games for the next five years under the terms of a deal struck with the Football Association of Wales.
Broadcast regulator Ofcom says it has not yet seen detailed plans for the merged UK/World News channel that the BBC intends to operate from April 2023.
Reductions in BBC news output on some of its services could be made permanent if conditions imposed on the broadcaster are relaxed.
The final series of Peaky Blinders, The Split and Killing Eve and live coverage of Glastonbury, the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee, and the Eurovision Song Contest drove record numbers of viewers to the iPlayer.
BBC management is accused of not being open with licence-fee payers about its plans for BBC News from next year.
Glasgow’s 2014 Commonwealth Games reached 35.3 million viewers, while Birmingham’s BBC TV coverage reached 28.6 million people. But the number of users streaming climbed dramatically.