Comic Relief has defended its policy of investing some of its funds in arms manufacturing, tobacco, and alcohol firms.
The BBC is set to launch five new high definition (HD) channels on December 10th on Freeview HD, Freesat HD, YouView, Sky HD, and Virgin Media.
TV licensing offences, where people are criminally prosecuted for watching television without paying for a valid TV license, now account for a tenth of all criminal prosecutions in the UK according to figures released by the Ministry of Justice.
The BBC has long had exclusive rights to broadcasting the tennis from Wimbledon, but for this year’s tournament which kicks off on Centre Court at 13:00 BST today, Google-owned video streaming behemoth YouTube will also be broadcasting the play around the world.
After much controversy, the BBC last night played a seven second clip of Ding-Dong! The Witch Is Dead on its traditional Sunday night music chart show. The song had been the subject of an internet campaign to get it to number one on the British charts as a “celebration” of the death of former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher.