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| April 10 2025 | Ofcom provisionally indicated it would reject BBC's plans to broadcast regular programming on the station, citing potential significant impact on commercial sports radio. |
| April 2025 | Ofcom indicates provisional approval for launching Radio 3 Unwind on DAB+. |
| April 7 2025 | Broadcast of 'Reunion' miniseries |
| 2025 | Lord Mann, the Prime Minister's independent adviser on antisemitism, publicly criticized BBC senior leaders, including Director-General Tim Davie, for repeatedly rejecting offers of antisemitism training. Mann reported making training offers on three occasions since 2019, all of which were declined, and accused the BBC leadership of 'arrogance' in handling antisemitism and anti-Israel bias allegations. |
| March 20 2025 | Sally Taylor MBE retired from South Today after 38 years of presenting, concluding her significant career with the programme. |
| 2025 | Special Big Weekend Anthems programmes to be created featuring line-ups from Radio 1's Big Weekend in Liverpool, with 30-minute themed mixes for each of the three days. |
| 2025 | BBC Radio 1 Anthems is planned to be fully launched on DAB+ platform. |
| March 2025 | Two episodes of a special programme Pace Setter Anthems were released to mark Radio 1's Ultra Marathon Man: Jamie Laing challenge for Comic Relief. |
| 2025 | A new controversy emerged in America over the US government's funding of BBC Media Action, with accusations of funding the BBC itself. |
| 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 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 | 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 will continue to hold Premier League highlights broadcasting rights until this year. |
| 2025 | End of highlights coverage of Ryder Cup on BBC Sport. |
| March 2 2025 | First broadcast of 'Towards Zero' on One, running until 16 March 2025. |
| February 10 2025 | A special 1-hour Valentine's Day themed programme entitled Radio 1's Love Anthems was broadcast and released. |
| February 2025 | The Official British Asian Music Chart with Jasmine Takhar is nominated for best radio show at the Music Week Awards, 10 months after the show's launch. |
| February 2025 | BBC announced that international access to World Service and Radio 4 would be available on bbc.com and the BBC app, with plans to remove international access to BBC Sounds website and app in Spring. |
| February 2025 | Controversy arose over alleged mistranslations in the BBC documentary 'Gaza: How to Survive a War Zone', with claims of sanitizing antisemitic language in Arabic subtitles. |
| February 2 2025 | First broadcast of 'Miss Austen' on One, running until 23 February 2025. A co-production with PBS. |
| January 2025 | Martine Croxall announced she would share presenting duties with Kasia Madera for the lunchtime bulletin. |
| January 30 2025 | BBC Scotland announced that Sally Magnusson will leave the programme after 27 years, continuing to present until April before working as a freelance broadcaster. |
| January 2025 | Danny Howard and Greg James announced Radio 1 Dance's return to Ibiza during the Jan Slam new year prizes competition. |
| January 6 2025 | Launch of 'Reporting Scotland: News at Seven', a new 30-minute week-night news programme on the BBC Scotland channel, presented by Laura Maciver and Amy Irons. |
| 2024 | BBC announced plans to broadcast BBC Sounds sports podcasts and sports programming from nations and regions when not airing live sports coverage. |
| 2024 | Anna Foster became a presenter, while Jane Hill, Reeta Chakrabarti, Clive Myrie concluded their long-standing roles. |
| 2024 | Began airing BBC News Channel coverage during periods when UK Parliaments and Assemblies are not sitting. |
| 2024 | Mark Prince, an English boxer, wins the Helen Rollason Award for his work at the Kiyan Prince Foundation, a charity he founded in memory of his son, which uses boxing to deter people from getting involved in knife crime. |
| 2024 | Programme extended to 60 minutes, with regional lunchtime news bulletins reduced from 15 to 10 minutes and now airing around 1:35pm. |
| 2024 | Charlie Hedges confirmed to host Dance Anthems every weekday on Radio 1 Dance stream from 3pm to 6pm, in addition to Saturday afternoon shows from 4pm to 7pm simulcast on main Radio 1 network. |
| 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'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 and Eurosport will conclude live Olympic Games coverage |
| 2024 | End of live television coverage of The Open Championship on BBC Sport, with highlights continuing. |
| 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. |
| 2024 | BBC Sport maintains broadcasting rights for IAAF Diamond League |
| December 2024 | The Nigerien government suspended the BBC for three months, accusing the broadcaster of spreading information that could destabilize social peace and undermine military morale. |
| December 2024 | The Nine news programme was replaced by a new shorter programme, Reporting Scotland: News at Seven. |
| November 2024 | Six BBC FAST channels were added to Australia's 9Now platform. |
| November 8 2024 | BBC Radio 1 Anthems launched. |
| November 4 2024 | BBC Radio 3 Unwind launched, offering classical and meditation music. |
| October 2024 | BBC and Sky Sports signed a deal to broadcast the 2025–26 Women's Super League campaign. |
| October 2024 | A technical fault with DTN data supplier caused the BBC Weather website and app to display incorrect wind speed and temperature forecasts, significantly misrepresenting meteorological information. |
| September 2024 | Lawyer Trevor Asserson published a report claiming the BBC violated its editorial bias guidelines over 1500 times in its reporting on the Israel-Hamas War. |
| August 2024 | Over 200 Jewish BBC staff members, contributors, and suppliers accused the BBC of 'gaslighting' regarding complaints about antisemitism. They sent a letter to BBC Chair Samir Shah urging an investigation into potential institutional racism, which Shah dismissed while praising the BBC's 'inclusive' environment. |
| August 2024 | Anja Bihlmaier announced as the next principal guest conductor, becoming the first female conductor in this role, effective September 2024 for three seasons. |
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