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LONDON: While the BBC's annual report was generally upbeat, it did include a warning that viewers had identified a “performance gap” between the type of innovative programs that audiences are expecting and what is actually being delivered.

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LONDON: BBC Director-General Tony Hall has unveiled a restructured senior management team, which sees Anne Bulford become deputy director-general.

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LONDON: BBC has unveiled plans for its move into the virtual reality space, posting several in-the-works projects to the experimental-ideas platform BBC Taster.

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LONDON: The unfreezing of the license fee, an emphasis on “distinctive” content and a more open commissioning process are among the key measures set out in a white paper on the future of the BBC published by John Whittingdale, the U.K.’s Secretary of State for Culture, Media & Sport.

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LONDON: BBC has extended its deal with World Snooker and will continue to broadcast three of the sport’s biggest tournaments until the end of the 2018-19 season.

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LONDON: Independent outfit CPL Productions has struck a joint-venture deal with comedian Harry Hill to launch Nit TV, which already has projects slated for Sky and BBC.

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CARDIFF: Welsh-language broadcaster S4C will receive £74.5 million ($106.4 million) in funding from the BBC in 2017-18.

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LONDON: A new long-term partnership has been signed between the BBC and Discovery Communications to share the rights for the Olympic Games in the U.K.

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This interview originally appeared in the MIPCOM 2014 issue of World Screen. Established by a Royal Charter in 1922, the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) declared from the start that its mission was: “to enrich people’s lives with programs and services that inform, educate and entertain.” Through the decades, just as ...

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