BBC Television

Television service of the British Broadcasting Corporation

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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 Victoria Valentine concluded her work as news and business presenter at BBC World News and BBC Breakfast.
2023 Alex Lovell concluded her role as presenter of BBC Points West.
2023 Razia Iqbal concluded her role as the main presenter of Newshour on the BBC World Service.
2023 Yalda Hakim leaves the BBC to join Sky News.
2023 John Edmunds passed away
2023 George Alagiah died after a long battle with cancer.
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.
August 2023 Gareth Barlow gained international attention for a news bulletin blooper while presenting a late-night BBC news programme.
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.
March 2023 Laura Trevelyan left the BBC after 30 years of service.
February 2023 Joanna Gosling left her long-serving role as presenter on the BBC News Channel.
January 2023 David Eades concluded his long-serving role as presenter on BBC World News
2022 Bill Turnbull died following a long battle with cancer.
2022 Harry Gration passed away.
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 Sharanjit Leyl left the BBC corporation.
2021 Mike Embley retired from BBC News Channel and BBC World News
2021 Discovery sub-licensed exclusive pay television Olympic rights from the BBC.

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