BBC World Service will launch content in Hungarian and Romanian, further building on its global commitment to reach more people with trusted news. The new pilot services, BBC News Magyarul and BBC News Romania, will deliver news and analysis via their websites – bbc.com/magyarul and bbc.com/romania – and their social-media channels. The Hungarian-language website and […]
Open Broadcast Systems has announced that BBC World Service has selected its decoders for IP Television distribution. The low-latency IP decoders are available in a small form factor, allowing for easy global deployment to deliver flexible, reliable, and cost-effective decoding for distribution across the BBC World Service network to its global rebroadcast partners. In several […]
Speaking at the Global Media Security and Innovation 2026 event organised by the BBC World Service, BBC Director-General Tim Davie emphasised the World Service’s growing importance in times of insecurity and instability and urged the UK government to back the World Service. BBC News Global Director Fiona Crack pressed the case for innovation, investment, and […]
The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of the UK House of Commons will hold a scrutiny session on the BBC World Service at 10am on Thursday January 8th 2026, taking evidence from senior BBC officials including outgoing BBC Director General Tim Davie. The World Service’s budget (£358 million [€430m] in 2025-26) has fallen by 21 per […]
While the BBC World Service has achieved savings primarily through closing TV and radio platforms, it has experienced a fall in audience numbers and it has not yet achieved its aim to switch audiences to its digital content, according to a report from the National Audit Office (NAO). The NAO has assessed the Service’s progress […]
BBC World Service is launching BBC Global Women, a new commitment to highlight women’s storytelling across its global output. The BBC says that this new editorial priority will “enhance the BBC World Service’s storytelling by listening, sharing and amplifying stories for women around the world,” all year-round. Alongside new commissions, the initiative aims to elevate […]
Through an extended partnership with Zeno Media, BBC World Service and BBC News Hausa content is now available on Zeno’s global audio platform, Zeno.FM. Audiences around the world can now access BBC World Service English and BBC News Hausa audio streams on Zeno FM, featuring popular English-language programmes such as The Newsroom, The Documentary and […]
The BBC World Service is bringing its award-winning international journalism to UK audiences with Global Eye, a new weekly current affairs programme launching on BBC Two from Monday September 8th at 7pm. Global Eye will showcase stories from around the world, present forensic journalism from BBC Eye, the BBC World Service’s critically acclaimed investigative unit, […]
The Culture, Media and Sport Committee of the UK House of Commons has written to the Government to ask for reassurances over the future funding of the BBC World Service, following reports of potential cuts planned for the forthcoming Spending Review, which will set the Government’s contribution for the following few years. The letter highlights […]
The BBC has published research exploring the impact and influence of its work internationally. The Impact and Influence research demonstrates that, predominantly through the BBC World Service, the BBC is driving favourable impressions of the UK. The BBC is the country’s most recognised cultural export internationally with 76 per cent of influential audiences around the […]