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MUMBAI: Yunasi, a nine-piece band from Kenya, has topped a list of thousands of musicans from around the world to win BBC World Service’s The Next...
MUMBAI: The loveable green ogre, and star of one of the most successful film franchises of all time, Shrek now comes to the TV screen in...
MUMBAI: BBC Arabic head Hosam El Sokkari has promised a new multi-media era for Arab audiences to the BBC. Speaking in Cairo at a reception to...
MUMBAI: With the 2012 London Olympic Games drawing ever closer, many British athletes will embark on the long journey towards fulfilling their ultimate goal of winning...
MUMBAI: UK unions are to ballot for industrial action across the BBC, following moves by the UK pubcaster to push ahead with plans for compulsory redundancies....
MUMBAI: UK pubcaster The BBC has published for the first time a code of conduct for competitions and voting on the Corporation’s television, radio and online...
MUMBAI: BBC Worldwide has concluded a deal with Australian free-to-air network SBS to license the rights to a local version of Top Gear. This is the...
MUMBAI: George Entwistle has been named as the new BBC Controller of Knowledge Commissioning. In this role, Entwistle will be responsible for delivering the recently launched...
MUMBAI: UK pubcaster The BBC’s Natural History unit, in partnership with Discovery, is venturing into remote rainforests, high mountains and raging underground rivers to uncover the...
MUMBAI: BBC Hindi has won an award at the Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union (ABU). Its radio documentary – Rising Mercury, Deepening Crisis – won the Best Radio...
MUMBAI: UK pubcaster the BBC has announced that its channel BBC One will go ahead with the planned series about the working lives of The Queen...
MUMBAI: Former BSkyB director of corporate finance and Goldman Sachs banker Neil Chugani joins BBC Worldwide as its chief financial officer, succeeding David King who has...
MUMBAI: Following a review of how UK pubcaster BBC handles complaints it receives, the BBC Trust is proposing new ways to strengthen and simplify systems and,...
MUMBAI: A British football chief has revealed how a Fifa VP asked him to pay Football Association money into his own personal bank account. The former...
MUMBAI: UK pubcaster the BBC has unveiled a radical programme of reform which it claims will not only continue to deliver the highest quality content to...
MUMBAI: BBC has acquired the rights of the second series of The Tudors. The second series will air on BBC2 next year. Starring Jonathan Rhys Meyers...
MUMBAI: UK pucaster The BBC has become the first UK broadcaster to have all of its online content made available free via Wi-Fi. The non-exclusive venture...
Synergy Communications founder Siddhartha Basu shot to fame as the curt quizmaster in BBC’s Mastermind India. But he sure knows a thing or two about drama....
MUMBAI: UK pubcaster BBC World Service’s English radio programmes can now be heard on FM for the first time in the Maldives capital of Male. BBC...
MUMBAI: BBC Global Channels – one of six BBC Worldwide businesses – has chosen Poland as the first European territory to launch its new suite of...
MUMBAI: UK pubcaster the BBC has announced that its former Gaza Correspondent Alan Johnston is to tell the story of his kidnap ordeal in a two-part...
MUMBAI: The BBC has announced that its integrated multimedia broadcast and production group BBC Vision will have a new strategy for multiplatform commissioning, content creation and...
MUMBAI: UK pubcaster the BBC has announced that its spy show Spooks will return later this year on BBC One. The complex relationship between the UK,...
MUMBAI: UK pubcaster the BBC has established an editorial standards board, chaired by the BBC’s Deputy DG Mark Byford, and comprising the BBC’s most senior output...
MUMBAI: The Why Democracy? season is a multimedia event – exploring the state of democracy in the world today – with the BBC at its heart....
MUMBAI: UK pubcaster The BBC will celebrate individuals from the world of grassroots sport with the BBC Sports Unsung Hero Award 2007. Across the UK everyone...
MUMBAI: BBC has roped in Sanjay Nazerali as the controller of marketing, communications and audiences (MC&A) for its global news division. Nazerali who joins BBC in...
MUMBAI: Visitors to Chinese web portal, sina.com.cn, can now learn English with the BBC. The site offers its users direct access to the BBC Learning English...
MUMBAI: BBC World Service has been informed by the owners of the Moscow FM radio station Bolshoye Radio that BBC programming in Russian will no longer...
MUMBAI: UK pubcaster The BBC has announced today that the process for the sale of its commercial subsidiary, BBC Resources has begun and an advertisement is...
MUMBAI: BBC has announced that the fourth season of Doctor Who has started filming, with Catherine Tate joining the drama series as The Doctor’s brand new...
MUMBAI: UK pubcaster BBC has announced that Mark Freeland is to take up one of the key creative roles at the organisation as the head of...
MUMBAI: UK pubcaster BBC is to take a package of tough measures to address the discovery of further serious breaches of editorial standards across some areas...
MUMBAI: UK pubcaster BBC will celebrate British film heritage on BBC Two with The Summer Of British season. The seven-part series is dedicated to home grown...
Radio One has changed its positioning from a niche to a mass station. With help from BBC which picked up a 20 per cent stake in...
MUMBAI: The BBC Trust has published the BBC’s Annual Report and Accounts for 2006/2007 and highlighted demands from the UK public for more innovation as a...
MUMBAI: Iran’s state broadcaster has launched an English news channel Press TV, aiming to break the stranglehold of the West over the world’s media. Its competition...
MUMBAI: The hidden stories of our planet’s oceans are to be told in a new BBC commission, Ocean, a documentary series for late 2008/early 2009. This...
MUMBAI: UK pubcaster the BBC has announced that record, nine-time Wimbledon Women’s champion Martina Navratilova and former World no.4 and US Open finalist Greg Rusedski are...
MUMBAI: UK pubcaster the BBC’s Jason DaPonte who is the executive producer of bbc.co.uk demonstrated at the MIX07 conference in Las Vegas a prototype technology showing...
MUMBAI: UK pubcaster The BBC has been given approval by the BBC Trust to launch a free-to-view satellite proposition as a joint venture with ITV in...
MUMBAI: The BBC Trust in the UK decided to apply a Public Value Test (PVT) to the BBC Executive’s proposal for a permanent high definition (HD)...
MUMBAI: The BBC has been named winner of this year’s BWTVF Outstanding Achievement Award, becoming the first broadcaster to win the prestigious global award three times....
MUMBAI: Distraction Formats has announced that UK pubcaster the BBC has taken on Dirty Rotten Cheater, the interactive and comical game show format that involves strategies,...
MUMBAI: UK pubcaster The BBC, its commercial arm BBC Worldwide and Bob Geldof have announced an intention to collaborate on the Dictionary of Man, a unique...
MUMBAI: UK pubcaster The BBC has become a radio player on the North African FM scene with the launch of two 24-hour FM relays in Mauritania....
MUMBAI: UK pubcaster the BBC will commemorate the 50th anniversary of its Natural History Unit with a show Saving Planet Earth. This will be a wide-reaching...
MUMBAI: Google’s YouTube may be facing the heat from the likes of Viacom on copy protection issues but the popularity of the online video network continues...
MUMBAI: The BBC Trust has provisionally approved UK pubcaster the BBC management’s proposal to develop and launch a free-to-view satellite platform, “Freesat”. BBC management envisages Freesat...
MUMBAI: UK pubcaaster the BBC’s sales division BBC Worldwide has made the first international sale of new children’s property In the Night Garden to New Zealand’s...
