BBC Studios – creator, producer and distributor of distinct British content globally – today launched BBC Podcasts Premium, its exclusive Apple subscription podcast service for listeners in 166 new countries in Africa, Asia, Europe, Middle East, Latin America and the Caribbean. BBC Podcasts Premium offers early access and ad-free listening for a range of the BBC’s most popular titles for listeners on Apple Podcasts.
The international rollout of BBC Podcasts Premium coincides with today’s launch of The Global Story, a brand-new daily news podcast from BBC Studios and BBC World Service. Hosted by Katya Adler, The Global Story drills deep into a single story everyday offering unrivalled context and deeper insight, drawing upon the BBC’s best global journalists and expertise from all over the world.
“Audio is core to the BBC’s heritage. We’ve been doing it for over a century and it forms part of our fabric as a global newscaster and storyteller,...
The international rollout of BBC Podcasts Premium coincides with today’s launch of The Global Story, a brand-new daily news podcast from BBC Studios and BBC World Service. Hosted by Katya Adler, The Global Story drills deep into a single story everyday offering unrivalled context and deeper insight, drawing upon the BBC’s best global journalists and expertise from all over the world.
“Audio is core to the BBC’s heritage. We’ve been doing it for over a century and it forms part of our fabric as a global newscaster and storyteller,...
- 11/28/2023
- Podnews.net
BBC Sounds continues to champion the growing UK podcast sector as it joins Spotify’s Megaphone, an industry leading podcast publishing and monetisation platform.
With Megaphone’s technology, we will be able to dynamically recommend relevant content to audiences on other podcast platforms in the UK, helping listeners discover more brilliant audio they’ll love from across the BBC, wherever they listen. Thanks to this new approach, we will transform the way we highlight BBC programmes on other podcast platforms, demonstrating our commitment to the growing podcast listenership in the UK.
Podcasting icon Jon Ronson announces the return of the phenomenally popular and acclaimed BBC Radio 4 podcast Things Fell Apart for a second series in 2024, and the long awaited Chapter Four of George The Poet’s groundbreaking Peabody Award winning Have You Have You Heard George’s Podcast? launches this autumn.
Plus details of a raft of exciting new...
With Megaphone’s technology, we will be able to dynamically recommend relevant content to audiences on other podcast platforms in the UK, helping listeners discover more brilliant audio they’ll love from across the BBC, wherever they listen. Thanks to this new approach, we will transform the way we highlight BBC programmes on other podcast platforms, demonstrating our commitment to the growing podcast listenership in the UK.
Podcasting icon Jon Ronson announces the return of the phenomenally popular and acclaimed BBC Radio 4 podcast Things Fell Apart for a second series in 2024, and the long awaited Chapter Four of George The Poet’s groundbreaking Peabody Award winning Have You Have You Heard George’s Podcast? launches this autumn.
Plus details of a raft of exciting new...
- 5/23/2023
- Podnews.net
Lesley Land Scholarship Launches
The UK’s National Film and Television School has launched a scholarship in memory of the late publicist Lesley Land, who passed away unexpected last year aged 41. The Lesley Land Scholarship, in association with Land’s parents and Channel 4, will support an annual scholarship to study the Nfts’s Marketing, Distribution, Sales and Exhibition Ma course. Land’s parents, agent Anita and Brook Land, will fund it. Land, considered one of UK television’s smartest and wittiest publicists, passed away in December 2022. She had roles at Sky, The Outside Organisation, Taylor Herring and Planet Hollywood, and had a long spell at Channel 4 promoting shows such as Gogglebox. At last night’s BAFTA TV Awards, Land was featured in the ‘In Memoriam’ segment, which recognizes influential figures in the British entertainment industry who have passed away. Applications for the scholarship are now open, with the recipient...
The UK’s National Film and Television School has launched a scholarship in memory of the late publicist Lesley Land, who passed away unexpected last year aged 41. The Lesley Land Scholarship, in association with Land’s parents and Channel 4, will support an annual scholarship to study the Nfts’s Marketing, Distribution, Sales and Exhibition Ma course. Land’s parents, agent Anita and Brook Land, will fund it. Land, considered one of UK television’s smartest and wittiest publicists, passed away in December 2022. She had roles at Sky, The Outside Organisation, Taylor Herring and Planet Hollywood, and had a long spell at Channel 4 promoting shows such as Gogglebox. At last night’s BAFTA TV Awards, Land was featured in the ‘In Memoriam’ segment, which recognizes influential figures in the British entertainment industry who have passed away. Applications for the scholarship are now open, with the recipient...
- 5/15/2023
- by Max Goldbart
- Deadline Film + TV
Brock Media, the TV and Film production company backed by BBC Studios, is making its first venture into the audio space. The podcast, Never Told, is an anthology series featuring eight stories written and performed by acclaimed writers, artists and filmmakers including Harry Trevaldwyn, Joanne Lau, Emma Jane Unsworth, Deborah Haywood, Thaddea Graham, Esther Smith, Zing Tsjeng and Caleb Azumah Nelson.
- 5/15/2023
- by PodcastingToday
- Podcastingtoday
Gal-Dem, the UK-based digital and print magazine for women and non-binary people of color, is set to close after eight years in circulation.
The editorial team behind Gal-Dem shared the news Friday afternoon with a public statement that said it was “unfortunately no longer feasible” for the publication to continue running as a business. Financial and structural difficulties exacerbated by the current global cost of living crisis were cited as the leading factors behind the decision.
“Keeping a small, independent media company that is reliant on partnerships afloat over the last three years has been increasingly challenging,” the statement read.
“Through a global pandemic, brand budget reductions, and economic downturn, we have worked tirelessly to reconfigure how we operate and keep Gal-Dem going through it all. And while we’re passionate about our membership model, it’s been difficult to sustain the level of growth needed here to support...
The editorial team behind Gal-Dem shared the news Friday afternoon with a public statement that said it was “unfortunately no longer feasible” for the publication to continue running as a business. Financial and structural difficulties exacerbated by the current global cost of living crisis were cited as the leading factors behind the decision.
“Keeping a small, independent media company that is reliant on partnerships afloat over the last three years has been increasingly challenging,” the statement read.
“Through a global pandemic, brand budget reductions, and economic downturn, we have worked tirelessly to reconfigure how we operate and keep Gal-Dem going through it all. And while we’re passionate about our membership model, it’s been difficult to sustain the level of growth needed here to support...
- 3/31/2023
- by Zac Ntim
- Deadline Film + TV
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