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| 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'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 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 | 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. |
| 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 hold Scottish Professional Football League highlights and live match broadcasting rights until the 2024-25 season. |
| 2024 | BBC Sport maintains broadcasting rights for IAAF Diamond League |
| 2024 | End of live television coverage of The Open Championship on BBC Sport, with highlights continuing. |
| 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 will continue to share live coverage of Challenge Cup matches, including sixth-round matches, quarter-finals, semi-finals, and the final. |
| November 2024 | Six BBC FAST channels were added to Australia's 9Now platform. |
| March 2024 | BBC Studios acquired Werner Film Productions in Melbourne, Australia, expanding their Australian operations. |
| March 31 2024 | BBC Entertainment channel was scheduled to cease operations. |
| 2023 | BBC Sport begins providing live coverage of all Formula E races, qualifying sessions, and practice sessions on BBC iPlayer. |
| 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 correspondents were temporarily reassigned to cover the Gaza conflict on a rotational basis. |
| October 2023 | BBC Studios reached a multi-million pound financial settlement with Top Gear presenter Freddie Flintoff for injuries sustained during a car crash while filming in December 2022. |
| June 2023 | BBC Studios announced the acquisition of Scandinavian production company STV, to be rebranded as BBC Studios Nordic Productions. |
| April 2023 | BBC Brit and BBC Earth were replaced by BBC Nordic in the Nordics region. |
| April 3 2023 | BBC merged BBC News and BBC World News channels into a single networked news channel, with regional opt-outs for domestic and international versions. |
| 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. |
| 2022 | BBC Sport continued live broadcasting rights for all FIFA World Cup Finals matches. |
| 2022 | BBC re-acquired terrestrial rights to broadcast the Olympics through a sub-licensing agreement with Discovery. |
| 2022 | BBC Sport began live coverage of the World Seniors Darts Championship on BBC iPlayer, expanding its darts broadcasting portfolio. |
| 2022 | BBC Sport concluded live coverage of the Commonwealth Games |
| 2022 | BBC aired daily highlights of the US Masters for the last time. |
| 2022 | ITV announced it had bought out BBC and other partners' stakes in the UK BritBox service, with the intention of integrating it with ITVX. |
| October 2022 | BBC Studios took full control of Firebird Pictures by acquiring the remaining stake. |
| August 2022 | BBC Studios planned to launch an international newsletter business, focusing on Canada and the US. |
| July 2022 | BBC announced plans to merge BBC News (UK audiences) and BBC World News (international audiences) into a single international news network. |
| April 2022 | BBC Children's production moves into BBC Studios Productions to expand global market potential for British children's content. |
| February 1 2022 | BBC Three relaunched as a broadcast programming channel. |
| 2021 | Discovery sub-licensed exclusive pay television Olympic rights from the BBC. |
| 2021 | BBC Sport's broadcasting rights for The Boat Race concluded, ending their live coverage of the event on BBC Sport |
| 2021 | BBC Sport provided live coverage of all matches for the Rugby League World Cup, Women's Rugby League World Cup, and Wheelchair Rugby League World Cup. |
| April 2021 | BBC Three's in-house production team joins BBC Studios Productions. |
| March 2021 | BBC Children's Productions and BBC Global News units were transferred into BBC Studios. |
| February 22 2021 | BBC Studios launched BBC Select streaming brand in North America and signed a first-look deal with Gobstopper Group. |
| 2020 | BBC's existing Olympic rights deal concluded, marking a transition in their Olympic broadcasting strategy. |
| 2020 | BBC Sport's horse racing rights coverage ends for major races including Cheltenham Festival, The Grand National, and The Derby |
| 2020 | Sky Sports gained exclusive live coverage of all four rounds of the US Masters. |
| 2020 | BBC's broadcasting rights for ATP World Tour Finals extended, set to run until 2020 in partnership with Sky Sports. |
| 2020 | Smart TV app was set to be retired, with most video content moved to the iPlayer Smart TV app. |
| 2020 | BBC continued broadcasting FIFA Club World Cup tournament, featuring Liverpool's matches. |
| December 31 2020 | BBC Canada television channel closed down. |
| December 8 2020 | Charlotte Moore announced a new leadership structure for BBC Content to take effect in April 2021, prioritizing iPlayer and restructuring channel management with portfolio editors. |
| September 8 2020 | Peter Bowes revealed on BBC News broadcast that Los Angeles has been his home for 25 years, highlighting his long-term international reporting career. |
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