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| July 2025 | Ofcom rejected a proposed Radio 2 spin-off station featuring pop nostalgia from the 50s, 60s, and 70s. |
| 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. |
| March 24 2025 | BBC Radio 4 expands its weekday broadcast hours, starting 20 minutes earlier at 05:00 and reintroducing Yesterday In Parliament. |
| 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 | End of highlights coverage of Ryder Cup on BBC Sport. |
| 2025 | BBC Sport will continue to hold Premier League highlights broadcasting rights until this year. |
| January 15 2025 | BBC Breakfast stops being aired on the BBC News Channel during weekdays, with the channel carrying global news service instead. |
| 2024 | Graeme Garden was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award at the BBC Audio Drama Awards. |
| 2024 | Oliver Emanuel received the Outstanding Contribution Award at the BBC Audio Drama Awards. |
| 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 will continue to share live coverage of Challenge Cup matches, including sixth-round matches, quarter-finals, semi-finals, and the final. |
| 2024 | BBC Sport and Eurosport will conclude live Olympic Games coverage |
| 2024 | BBC will continue Olympic broadcasting through a sub-licensing arrangement with Discovery, maintaining their long-standing Olympic coverage tradition. |
| 2024 | BBC Sport maintains broadcasting rights for IAAF Diamond League |
| 2024 | BBC Sport will continue to hold Scottish Professional Football League highlights and live match broadcasting rights until the 2024-25 season. |
| 2024 | End of live television coverage of The Open Championship on BBC Sport, with highlights continuing. |
| November 8 2024 | BBC Radio 1 Anthems launched, focusing on music from the 2000s and 2010s. |
| November 4 2024 | BBC Radio 3 Unwind launched, featuring calming classical music. |
| October 2024 | BBC and Sky Sports signed a deal to broadcast the 2025–26 Women's Super League campaign. |
| July 2024 | BBC Radio 1 Relax was closed after a short period of operation. |
| June 3 2024 | The BBC News at One is extended to an hour-long programme. |
| May 28 2024 | Newsnight relaunches as a half-hour 'interview, debate and discussion' programme, removing its special reporting team. |
| April 2024 | Television licence fee increased to £169.50 per household. |
| April 15 2024 | BBC Radio 4 switches off its medium wave frequencies, ending AM broadcasting in areas with weak long wave signals. |
| March 24 2024 | The 13th annual BBC Audio Drama Awards ceremony was held at the BBC Radio Theatre, hosted by Meera Syal. The event celebrated audio dramas broadcast between 1 October 2022 and 31 October 2023. |
| March 4 2024 | Samir Shah appointed as BBC chairman. |
| February 2024 | BBC announced plans to launch three new spin-off stations across Radio 1, Radio 2, and Radio 3, pending public consultation and regulatory approval. |
| January 8 2024 | The BBC stops broadcasting in standard definition on satellite. |
| 2023 | Victoria Valentine concluded her work as news and business presenter at BBC World News and BBC Breakfast. |
| 2023 | John Edmunds passed away |
| 2023 | Alex Lovell concluded her role as presenter of BBC Points West. |
| 2023 | Yalda Hakim leaves the BBC to join Sky News. |
| 2023 | Razia Iqbal concluded her role as the main presenter of Newshour on the BBC World Service. |
| 2023 | George Alagiah died after a long battle with cancer. |
| 2023 | The Radio Drama Company was honored with the Outstanding Contribution award, recognizing its 100-year history from 1923 to 2023. |
| 2023 | Martin Jarvis received the Lifetime Achievement Award at the BBC Audio Drama Awards. |
| 2023 | Approximately half a million UK households cancelled their TV licence, leading to a decline in revenue and reduction of licence-paying households to 23.9 million. |
| 2023 | BBC Sport retains broadcasting rights for UK Athletics major events and IAAF World Cross Country Championships |
| 2023 | BBC Sport's Formula One broadcasting rights maintained, covering live races, qualifying sessions, and practices through at least the end of 2023. |
| 2023 | BBC Sport begins providing live coverage of all Formula E races, qualifying sessions, and practice sessions on BBC iPlayer. |
| 2023 | BBC correspondents were temporarily reassigned to cover the Gaza conflict on a rotational basis. |
| August 2023 | Gareth Barlow gained international attention for a news bulletin blooper while presenting a late-night BBC news programme. |
| August 14 2023 | The BBC's historic Maida Vale Studios, famous for performances by artists like The Beatles and Adele, are sold to a group led by composer Hans Zimmer. |
| June 27 2023 | Dame Elan Closs Stephens appointed as acting chairwoman of the BBC. |
| April 2023 | Richard Sharp resigned as BBC chairman after a report found he did not disclose potential conflicts of interest. |
| April 3 2023 | The BBC News Channel closes as a stand-alone channel, merging with BBC World News to form a single worldwide news channel. |
| April 3 2023 | BBC consolidated its domestic and international rolling news channels into a unified operation, appointing six original 'chief presenters' to spearhead news broadcasts during weekdays. This group has since expanded to twelve presenters, with nine based in London, two in Washington DC, and one in Singapore. |
| March 2023 | Laura Trevelyan left the BBC after 30 years of service. |
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