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| 2025 | FCDO requests BBC to prepare World Service budget cut options, with potential significant impact on the organization's global soft power due to proposed cuts to official development assistance funding. |
| 2025 | Anna Foster becomes a presenter |
| May 16 2025 | Two new streaming services, BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra 2 and BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra 3, launched on BBC Sounds to provide additional sports coverage during multiple simultaneous sporting events. |
| May 2025 | Following the earthquake in Myanmar and Thailand, BBC News Myanmar began broadcasting using a vacated Voice of America satellite frequency. |
| 2025 | BBC Film is involved in producing the films 'Dreamers' and 'Christy'. |
| May 2025 | BBC director general Tim Davie announced plans to transition to fully online programme delivery by switching off traditional broadcast transmissions in the 2030s. |
| 2025 | BBC's coverage of the Pahalgam attack was criticized by the Indian government for perceived anti-Indian bias, resulting in an official complaint letter to BBC India. |
| April 2025 | Weekly Anthems shows previously simulcast on Radio 1 ceased broadcasting. |
| April 2025 | Line-ups and further details for Radio 1 Dance events are confirmed. |
| April 10 2025 | Ofcom provisionally indicated it would reject BBC's plans to broadcast regular programming on the station, citing potential significant impact on commercial sports radio. |
| April 2025 | Ofcom indicates provisional approval for launching Radio 3 Unwind on DAB+. |
| April 7 2025 | Broadcast of 'Reunion' miniseries |
| 2025 | Lord Mann, the Prime Minister's independent adviser on antisemitism, publicly criticized BBC senior leaders, including Director-General Tim Davie, for repeatedly rejecting offers of antisemitism training. Mann reported making training offers on three occasions since 2019, all of which were declined, and accused the BBC leadership of 'arrogance' in handling antisemitism and anti-Israel bias allegations. |
| March 24 2025 | BBC Radio 4 expands its weekday broadcast hours, starting 20 minutes earlier at 05:00 and reintroducing Yesterday In Parliament. |
| March 20 2025 | Sally Taylor MBE retired from South Today after 38 years of presenting, concluding her significant career with the programme. |
| 2025 | Special Big Weekend Anthems programmes to be created featuring line-ups from Radio 1's Big Weekend in Liverpool, with 30-minute themed mixes for each of the three days. |
| 2025 | BBC Radio 1 Anthems is planned to be fully launched on DAB+ platform. |
| March 2025 | Two episodes of a special programme Pace Setter Anthems were released to mark Radio 1's Ultra Marathon Man: Jamie Laing challenge for Comic Relief. |
| 2025 | A new controversy emerged in America over the US government's funding of BBC Media Action, with accusations of funding the BBC itself. |
| March 13 2025 | BBC announced new exclusive audio rights to continue Formula One coverage on BBC Radio 5 Live and BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra for three seasons (2025-2027). |
| 2025 | BBC Sport continues broadcasting rights for various rugby union events on television and radio, including coverage of domestic and international matches across different BBC regional channels. |
| 2025 | BBC's joint rights to the Six Nations championship with ITV Sport are set to expire, concluding their broadcasting partnership for rugby union coverage. |
| 2025 | BBC Sport will continue to hold Premier League highlights broadcasting rights until this year. |
| 2025 | End of highlights coverage of Ryder Cup on BBC Sport. |
| March 2 2025 | First broadcast of 'Towards Zero' on One, running until 16 March 2025. |
| February 2025 | Programme 'Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone' was removed from BBC iPlayer after concerns about the child narrator's family links to Hamas, with the BBC issuing an apology for 'serious flaws' in the production. |
| February 10 2025 | A special 1-hour Valentine's Day themed programme entitled Radio 1's Love Anthems was broadcast and released. |
| February 2025 | The Official British Asian Music Chart with Jasmine Takhar is nominated for best radio show at the Music Week Awards, 10 months after the show's launch. |
| February 2025 | BBC announced that international access to World Service and Radio 4 would be available on bbc.com and the BBC app, with plans to remove international access to BBC Sounds website and app in Spring. |
| February 2025 | Controversy arose over alleged mistranslations in the BBC documentary 'Gaza: How to Survive a War Zone', with claims of sanitizing antisemitic language in Arabic subtitles. |
| February 2 2025 | First broadcast of 'Miss Austen' on One, running until 23 February 2025. A co-production with PBS. |
| January 2025 | Martine Croxall announced she would share presenting duties with Kasia Madera for the lunchtime bulletin. |
| January 30 2025 | BBC Scotland announced that Sally Magnusson will leave the programme after 27 years, continuing to present until April before working as a freelance broadcaster. |
| January 2025 | Danny Howard and Greg James announced Radio 1 Dance's return to Ibiza during the Jan Slam new year prizes competition. |
| January 6 2025 | Launch of 'Reporting Scotland: News at Seven', a new 30-minute week-night news programme on the BBC Scotland channel, presented by Laura Maciver and Amy Irons. |
| 2024 | BBC World Service reached an average of 450 million people per week across TV, radio, and online platforms, demonstrating its significant global reach. |
| 2024 | Jane Hill, Reeta Chakrabarti, Clive Myrie, Katya Adler, Maryam Moshiri, and Lucy Hockings conclude their roles on the programme |
| 2024 | BBC Film produced multiple film projects including 'The Outrun', 'Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger', 'Edge of Summer', 'Bird', 'On Becoming a Guinea Fowl', 'Santosh', 'September Says', 'Lollipop', 'Harvest', 'The Salt Path', 'On Falling', and 'The Severed Sun'. |
| 2024 | BBC Own It website was retired and transitioned its resources to BBC Teach, continuing its mission of online child safety education. |
| 2024 | BBC announced plans to broadcast BBC Sounds sports podcasts and sports programming from nations and regions when not airing live sports coverage. |
| 2024 | Anna Foster became a presenter, while Jane Hill, Reeta Chakrabarti, Clive Myrie concluded their long-standing roles. |
| 2024 | Began airing BBC News Channel coverage during periods when UK Parliaments and Assemblies are not sitting. |
| 2024 | Mark Prince, an English boxer, wins the Helen Rollason Award for his work at the Kiyan Prince Foundation, a charity he founded in memory of his son, which uses boxing to deter people from getting involved in knife crime. |
| 2024 | Programme extended to 60 minutes, with regional lunchtime news bulletins reduced from 15 to 10 minutes and now airing around 1:35pm. |
| 2024 | Charlie Hedges confirmed to host Dance Anthems every weekday on Radio 1 Dance stream from 3pm to 6pm, in addition to Saturday afternoon shows from 4pm to 7pm simulcast on main Radio 1 network. |
| 2024 | BBC Sport will continue to hold Scottish Professional Football League highlights and live match broadcasting rights until the 2024-25 season. |
| 2024 | BBC Sport's current cricket broadcasting rights expire, covering England Men & Women Test, ODI & T20 Highlights, T20 International live coverage, and The Hundred matches. |
| 2024 | BBC Sport and Eurosport will conclude live Olympic Games coverage |
| 2024 | End of live television coverage of The Open Championship on BBC Sport, with highlights continuing. |
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