Euromedia July/August 2022 The current economic climate means households are re-evaluating their spending on subscriptions. What role can CPE play in maintaining customer loyalty and helping to maximise the available spend from customers? Colin Mann sought the views of a range of industry players. Read the article and the rest of the issue here
The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and the BBC have confirmed that the 2023 Eurovision Song Contest will be hosted in the United Kingdom on behalf of this year’s winning broadcaster, Ukraine’s UA:PBC. Following the decision that, regrettably, next year’s event could not be held in Ukraine for safety and security reasons the EBU explored a […]
Ahead of the new Premier League season, which kicks off on August 5th, BBC Radio 5 Live has revealed its broadcast offering for the 2022-2023 season. As previously announced, BBC Radio 5 Live has secured rights to air the following live Premier League games each week: Saturday – 3pm [1st pick] Saturday – 5.30pm Sunday […]
Teenagers in the UK are turning away from traditional news channels and are instead looking to Instagram, TikTok and YouTube to keep up to date, Ofcom research has found. Ofcom’s News Consumption in the UK 2021/22 report shows that, for the first time, Instagram is the most popular news source among teenagers – used by nearly […]
The BBC has acquired two non-English language drama series – Senorita 89 and KaDeWe – Our Time is Now from Fremantle, with both set to air later this year. Created and directed by the award-winning showrunner Lucia Puenzo, scandalous thriller Senorita 89 delves behind the curtain of Latin America’s beauty pageant culture in the 1980s, […]
Jonathan Rothery has been named Head of Pop Music, TV at the BBC. Under the leadership of Lorna Clarke, BBC Director of Music, Rothery’s remit will solely focus on pop music commissions across TV, iPlayer and Digital, whilst collaborating with radio and BBC Sounds to deliver across the portfolio. He will start in his new […]
As part of its centenary celebrations the BBC has launched ‘BBC Rewind’ across the UK, providing public access to a vast portion of the Corporation’s archive. The new website contains tens of thousands of audio-visual recordings, largely from news output and documentaries. They reflect the life and events of the UK spanning decades, telling the story […]
On July 27th, the Science Museum will unveil a new free display – BBC at 100 – at a special broadcast-themed, after-hours Lates event that celebrates 100 years of the BBC and 40 years of Channel 4. This special Lates also forms part of the Science Museum Group’s Broadcast 100 programme. In collaboration with the […]
Members of the Communications and Digital Committee of the UK House of Lords, Parliament’s upper legislative chamber, have suggested that some form of public funding will remain necessary beyond the existing BBC licence fee settlement, proposing a number of alternatives. In a report, Licence to change: BBC future funding, the Committee, chaired by Baroness Stowell […]
BBC News has revealed details of its new TV news channel which will launch next year, replacing its two existing separate news channels for UK and global audiences. The channel, which will simply be called BBC News, will tentatively launch in April 2023. This forms part of the plan the broadcaster announced earlier this year […]