New York, NY – BBC Worldwide North America announced today the appointment of Chris Cole as SVP TV Co-productions and Sales, Factual, BBC Worldwide North America. His appointment is effective November 4. Cole will be responsible for developing and driving strategic business growth for BBC Worldwide Factual content in the U.S. including sales, co-productions and…
Read MoreLos Angeles, CA – BBC.com today marked the expansion of their partnership with online question-and-answer product, Quora. The sites blend relevant and compelling insights from Quora’s global community of writers with BBC’s first-class storytelling into regular columns across the BBC.com feature pages. “BBC.com users are worldly and curious – a terrific match with Quora’s varied…
Read MoreNew York, NY – BBC.com today announced the launch of two business journalism sections that will interpret global economic stories, trends and profiles to a personal level. The two new sites – BBC Capital and BBC Entrepreneurship– underline the site’s commitment to become a household source for business news and features. “BBC is no stranger to financial…
Read MoreNew York, NY – BBC.com launches its latest feature section – Culture – to inspire readers to indulge in cultural, design and style trends. Benefitting from its global reach, the BBC has a long tradition of covering film, music and art. Complete with compelling columns, clips from BBC World News programs, exclusive BBC archive treasures, info…
Read MoreNew York, NY – The global news events of the last two months have had a marked impact on traffic to the BBC in the U.S. According to the latest comScore data for March, BBC sites delivered record-breaking U.S. audiences, demonstrating American users are increasingly making the BBC part of their everyday news habit. comScore…
Read MoreNew York, NY – Matt Stein has been promoted to SVP, Marketing, Promotion, and Creative Services for BBC AMERICA, effective immediately, announced Perry Simon, General Manager, BBC AMERICA. Stein joined the channel in 2010 as VP, Promotions and Creative Services. Over the last three years, Stein has worked on the successful launch of the channel’s first…
Read MoreNew York, NY – BBC Worldwide America today announced the launch of BBC Autos (BBC.com/Autos), an entertaining, insightful daily read examining the passionate side of automobiles – touching on design, technology, community and culture. BBC Autos will complement and build upon the vast automotive content produced by BBC News, BBC Sport and Top Gear. Whether you want to…
Read MoreNew York, NY – BBC Worldwide Latin America has confirmed leading digital technology experts Ronaldo Lemos, Director of the Center for Technology and Society at the Fundação Getúlio Vargas School in Rio de Janeiro, and Fabio Coelho, Director of Google Brazil, to take part in this year’s digital sessions at BBC Worldwide Showcase Latin America. …
Read MoreNew York, NY — BBC Worldwide, the commercial arm of the BBC, today announced the promotion of Parul Patel to Vice President, Factual Co-Productions and Sales, effective immediately. Parul will continue to oversee co-production and sales activity with broadcast partners across key factual programming genres, including natural history, news and current affairs, lifestyle and general…
Read MoreNew York, NY — BBC Future presents the first-ever exhibit of their paleo future columnist, Matt Novak, “The Future That Never Was.” The exhibit, presented in partnership with Atlas Obscura‘s third annual Obscura Day, will showcase Novak’s unparalleled private collection of ephemera, vintage advertisements and miscellaneous retro-future objects that capture the ghosts of future visions past. From…
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