The BBC is reaching 94 per cent of adults on average per month, according to its Annual Report and Accounts 2025/26. The corporation says the report highlights “its continued role serving audiences across the UK and around the world, despite ongoing pressures on licence fee income, rising production costs and a rapidly changing media market”. […]

The BBC and Channel 4 are in talks with regards to combining their streaming services, so says new director-general Matt Brittin, talking to the Parliamentary culture committee. Brittin called for a British “sovereign platform” to compete with US giants like Netflix and Disney+. He said the BBC had “an approach and a conversation” with Channel […]

The Culture, Media and Sport Committee of the UK House of Commons is to hold a evidence session on July 8th as part of its enquiry into the BBC Royal Charter where new BBC Director-General Matt Brittin will make his debut in front of the Committee as MPs continue their work examining the future of […]

BBC News is reportedly preparing to announce a major round of job cuts designed to save some £500 million (€578.3m) across the corporation. The number of job cuts, which are likely to be announced this week, could be in the hundreds. The BBC News department currently employing around a quarter of the 21,500 workforce at […]

As many as 2,000 jobs could be cut by the BBC across departments as part of a radical downsizing of the UK’s public service broadcaster ahead of the arrival of new director-general Matt Brittin. BBC employees are expected to be told that about one in 10 could lose their jobs at an all-staff meeting, according […]

As widely expected, the BBC Board has appointed Matt Brittin as the 18th Director-General of the BBC. The former President Google EMEA, will take over the role on May 18th. Rhodri Talfan Davies will lead the BBC as Interim DG following Tim Davie’s departure on April 2nd. During this period, Brittin will undergo an onboarding […]

The worst kept secret in broadcasting is out; Matt Brittin becomes BBC DG to wrestle with the myriad challenges facing the corporation. News focuses on his background as a senior European Google executive. He’s also a white, male, British, Oxbridge graduate in his late fifties. Don’t hold your breath for radical moves. He’s also a […]

Matt Brittin, the former Google executive and Team GB Olympic athlete, ​is set to be named as the ‌BBC’s new Director-General (DG). Brittin’s appointment ​is said to have been approved by the ​BBC board at a meeting ⁠on March 19th, with an official announcement ​expected in the coming days, according to a report originating in […]