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| 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 | End of highlights coverage of Ryder Cup on BBC Sport. |
| 2025 | BBC Sport will continue to hold Premier League highlights broadcasting rights until this year. |
| January 15 2025 | BBC Breakfast stops being aired on the BBC News Channel during weekdays, with the channel carrying global news service instead. |
| 2024 | Graeme Garden was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award at the BBC Audio Drama Awards. |
| 2024 | Oliver Emanuel received the Outstanding Contribution Award at the BBC Audio Drama Awards. |
| 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 will continue to share live coverage of Challenge Cup matches, including sixth-round matches, quarter-finals, semi-finals, and the final. |
| 2024 | BBC Sport and Eurosport will conclude live Olympic Games coverage |
| 2024 | BBC will continue Olympic broadcasting through a sub-licensing arrangement with Discovery, maintaining their long-standing Olympic coverage tradition. |
| 2024 | BBC Sport maintains broadcasting rights for IAAF Diamond League |
| 2024 | BBC Sport will continue to hold Scottish Professional Football League highlights and live match broadcasting rights until the 2024-25 season. |
| 2024 | End of live television coverage of The Open Championship on BBC Sport, with highlights continuing. |
| October 2024 | BBC and Sky Sports signed a deal to broadcast the 2025–26 Women's Super League campaign. |
| July 2024 | BBC Radio 1 Relax was closed after a short period of operation. |
| June 3 2024 | The BBC News at One is extended to an hour-long programme. |
| May 28 2024 | Newsnight relaunches as a half-hour 'interview, debate and discussion' programme, removing its special reporting team. |
| April 2024 | Television licence fee increased to £169.50 per household. |
| March 24 2024 | The 13th annual BBC Audio Drama Awards ceremony was held at the BBC Radio Theatre, hosted by Meera Syal. The event celebrated audio dramas broadcast between 1 October 2022 and 31 October 2023. |
| March 4 2024 | Samir Shah appointed as BBC chairman. |
| February 2024 | BBC announced plans to launch three new spin-off stations across Radio 1, Radio 2, and Radio 3, pending public consultation and regulatory approval. |
| 2023 | The Radio Drama Company was honored with the Outstanding Contribution award, recognizing its 100-year history from 1923 to 2023. |
| 2023 | Martin Jarvis received the Lifetime Achievement Award at the BBC Audio Drama Awards. |
| 2023 | Approximately half a million UK households cancelled their TV licence, leading to a decline in revenue and reduction of licence-paying households to 23.9 million. |
| 2023 | BBC Sport retains broadcasting rights for UK Athletics major events and IAAF World Cross Country Championships |
| 2023 | BBC Sport's Formula One broadcasting rights maintained, covering live races, qualifying sessions, and practices through at least the end of 2023. |
| 2023 | BBC Sport begins providing live coverage of all Formula E races, qualifying sessions, and practice sessions on BBC iPlayer. |
| 2023 | BBC correspondents were temporarily reassigned to cover the Gaza conflict on a rotational basis. |
| June 27 2023 | Dame Elan Closs Stephens appointed as acting chairwoman of the BBC. |
| April 2023 | Richard Sharp resigned as BBC chairman after a report found he did not disclose potential conflicts of interest. |
| April 3 2023 | The BBC News Channel closes as a stand-alone channel, merging with BBC World News to form a single worldwide news channel. |
| April 3 2023 | BBC consolidated its domestic and international rolling news channels into a unified operation, appointing six original 'chief presenters' to spearhead news broadcasts during weekdays. This group has since expanded to twelve presenters, with nine based in London, two in Washington DC, and one in Singapore. |
| March 2023 | BBC was involved in a political controversy with football pundit Gary Lineker over his criticism of the UK's asylum policy, leading to his temporary suspension. |
| March 19 2023 | The 12th annual BBC Audio Drama Awards ceremony took place, celebrating audio dramas broadcast between 1 October 2021 and 31 October 2022. This year marked the centenary of the audio and radio drama genre at the BBC. |
| 2022 | BBC chairman Richard Sharp publicly acknowledged the organization's liberal bias and noted that the institution is actively working to address this perception. |
| 2022 | BBC Sport continued live broadcasting rights for all FIFA World Cup Finals matches. |
| 2022 | BBC Sport began live coverage of the World Seniors Darts Championship on BBC iPlayer, expanding its darts broadcasting portfolio. |
| 2022 | BBC aired daily highlights of the US Masters for the last time. |
| 2022 | BBC re-acquired terrestrial rights to broadcast the Olympics through a sub-licensing agreement with Discovery. |
| 2022 | BBC Sport concluded live coverage of the Commonwealth Games |
| September 8 2022 | Buckingham Palace announces the death and state funeral of Elizabeth II, with BBC channels switching to live coverage. |
| September 4 2022 | The first edition of Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg is broadcast. |
| July 14 2022 | The BBC announces plans for a new global news channel titled BBC News, set to replace existing UK and overseas news services. |
| June 13 2022 | BBC News unveils its flagship studio for BBC News at Six, BBC News at Ten, and BBC London local newscasts, first introduced by Huw Edwards. |
| March 25 2022 | The 11th annual BBC Audio Drama Awards ceremony took place, hosted by Andy Zaltzman. This marked the return of the event as an in-person ceremony after COVID-19 restrictions, and the comeback of Best Supporting Performance and Lifetime Achievement awards after a three-year absence. |
| 2021 | BBC Sport's broadcasting rights for The Boat Race concluded, ending their live coverage of the event on BBC Sport |
| 2021 | Discovery sub-licensed exclusive pay television Olympic rights from the BBC. |
| 2021 | BBC Sport provided live coverage of all matches for the Rugby League World Cup, Women's Rugby League World Cup, and Wheelchair Rugby League World Cup. |
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