New music too. There are a few live sections in the opener aswell.
Caps & video from YT user Television Moments
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Itâs alright, but donât know if I find it as exciting as the old one. Itâs kind of similar to this one. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QT3wzgvQ53E
That was a one off, special opening.
Here is a normal opening with the previous style.
https://youtu.be/RKapRHBdmx4
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ehhhhh, still find GMB more exciting.
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What about GEB
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The show was all over the place - it would have worked better if it was similar to GMB rather than being an OTT version of it
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With Pamela Anderson!? Donât know how anyone can watch that Morgan guyâŚ
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Was that a mock 
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I wish it was, I think it was a football world Cup special or something?
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The singer claimed the BBCâs reporting of the 2014 raid, which was part of an investigation into historical child sex allegations, was a âserious invasionâ of privacy.
Sir Cliff was never arrested or charged over the allegations, which dated back to 1985.
The judge said the BBC had infringed Sir Cliffâs privacy rights in a âseriousâ and âsensationalistâ way.
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BBC Reel
BBC GLOBAL NEWS LAUNCHES BBC REEL - NEW VIDEO FEATURES PLATFORM
Today, BBC News launches BBC Reel, a new video features platform that will be the global home of the BBCâs best factual digital output. For the first time ever, Reel brings together in one place the best of the BBCâs world-class digital video content alongside specially made bespoke content, all from the BBCâs unmatched global network of contributors. Reel has already commissioned dozens of original videos from more than 50 filmmakers located in 40 countries.
BBC Reel will produce its own new bespoke, high-quality content with the mission to encourage audiences to look beyond their world. Through telling human stories, Reel will connect viewers with people living remarkable lives around the globe today, as well as showcasing inspiring and innovative ideas for the future, discovering new mysteries, and debunking hype.
Every weekday, BBC Reel will publish a themed playlist of four to five videos, combining originally produced content and the best videos from BBC verticals and brands, including BBC Travel, BBC Future, BBC Culture, and BBC Capital. BBC Reel content will also be available on the YouTube, where BBC News has 5.1 million engaged global viewers every week.
On day one, Reel is focusing on the true story of Starlite, a remarkable heat-resistant substance first demonstrated in 1993 on BBC program Tomorrowâs World . Despite interest from NASA, Boeing and others, Starlite never went into commercial production, and in 2011 its inventor died. Six mini-docs will investigate if it was all an elaborate party trick, or a potentially revolutionary technology now abandoned. Other themes for launch week include remarkable commutes and daring animal rescues, including a Nepalese man who rescues stray cows on his motorbike.
âThe strength of BBC videos are their ability to bring the viewer right into the lives of people around the globe,â said Melissa Hogenboom, editor of BBC Reel. âThe BBCâs truly global network of correspondents connects viewers to a staggeringly wide range of lived experience, weaving us together in a way thatâs uniquely possible through the visually arresting power of video.â
As part of BBC Global News, the BBCâs international and commercial offering, BBC Reel will also offer advertisers the opportunity to advertise around the video features.
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It appears BBC News has had the Ecuadorian Embassy in London under surveillance since August 2018.
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BBC NAMED AUSTRALIAâS #1 ONLINE INTERNATIONAL NEWS BRAND FOR SECOND YEAR
The BBC is the top online international news brand amongst all affluent audiences in Australia for the second year in a row, according to the latest Ipsos survey of affluent audiences in APAC*.
Across APAC, the BBC has also been named the fastest growing international news brand, having grown 6.8% year-on-year**, and its international news channel, BBC World News was the fastest growing international news channel.
Alistair McEwan, SVP Commercial Development, APAC says, â *With a competitive and ever-changing global media landscape, the need for impartial journalism and trusted news sources is becoming ever more important. Consumers are turning towards brands they know they can trust in Australia and across the world and these latest results prove the importance of the BBC brand in this market. Couple this with our increased investments into content effectiveness research and exciting new products across the platforms and we are providing more and more reasons for brands to partner with BBC Global News.â
The research also revealed that the BBC is Australiaâs number one online international news brand for a range of affluent groups including all top management, business decision makers, high income individuals, affluent millennials, and amongst frequent international travellers.
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The BBC announces results of 50:50 Project which reveals big increase in female representation
- 100% of BBC World News teams monitoring their output for 12 months or more reached 50% of female contributors on air in April 2019
- Over 500 teams across the BBC are now signed up to the project
- BBC World Service transforms female representation in Asia
- Over 20 external media partners have signed up to replicate the idea themselves
The proportion of female contributors appearing in BBC programmes has radically increased thanks to a grassroots initiative challenging teams to aim for 50:50 representation. On BBC World News â the BBCâs international 24 hour news channel, every programme team monitoring their output over the past year hit the 50% target.
The BBC 50:50 Project has challenged teams across the organisation to achieve 50% female contributors in English-language news, current affairs and topical programmes. Results published today show the transformation that has taken place over the past year, ensuring a more diverse range of views and opinions.
When the challenge was set last year by the BBCâs Director General, Tony Hall, 74 English language outlets and 10 World Service Language teams were already signed up to the initiative. At the time, 27% of them recorded having at least 50% female contributors â but that had increased three-fold to 74% by this April.Over the course of the year, hundreds more programmes from across the BBC - from news to entertainment to music â have joined the project.
The programmes which hit the 50:50 target this April include Outside Source, whose presenter Ros Atkins started the 50:50 Project, Click, Asia Business Report , Impact, The Real Story, World News America, GMT, From Our Own Correspondent, Beyond 100 Days, Global, Newsday, World News Business and Focus on Africa.
The BBC World Service has also made dramatic progress in the same time period. The results are particularly encouraging in Asia where BBC Persian radio was up from 9% to 50%, BBC Urdu radio was up from 22% to 58% and Hindi TV increased from 48% to 58%. BBC Arabic also saw some significant increases and across the whole World Service, 61% of the teams surveyed reached 50% women representation â an overall increase of 44%.The project has been so successful that the BBC has shared the methodology with other media organisations and is working with more than 20 external partners who are now signed up to replicate the project**. These include ABC News, Fortune and The Financial Times.
BBC Director-General Tony Hall said: âItâs amazing to see such a remarkable change in just a year â you can see and hear it right across our programming. I want the BBC to lead the way on equality and fairness, and this project demonstrates what can be achieved. Better representation is something the whole media industry needs to address so Iâm really pleased others are now following us and adopting this project for their own organisation.â
BBC Director of News Fran Unsworth said: âWe want to ensure the BBC reflects its audiences better â and thatâs at the heart of the 50:50 Project. Itâs extremely encouraging to see the progression made by so many teams to ensure we have more female voices represented across our news and current affairs output and it can only add to the quality of the programming we offer our audiences.â
The BBCâs 50:50 Project contributes towards the BBCâs commitment to reach 50% women on-screen, on-air and in lead roles across all genres from Drama to News by 2020.
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Coverage on BBC News has been awesome. Impressed!
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BBC international audience soars to record high of 426m
World Service English and BBC World News TV both reach all-time record highs
More people around the world are tuning into the BBC than ever before, reaching a new high of 426m a week - an increase of 50m (13%) over the year, according to new figures released today.
The Global Audience Measure (GAM) shows BBC News has an audience of 394m globally, a rise of 47m. The BBC World Service in English and 42 languages accounts for 319m of that figure â with an increase of 41m. BBC World Service in English and the BBC World News TV channel have both achieved all time record audiences of 97m and 101m respectively. BBC World Serviceâs 42 language services have climbed to 259m. BBC Global News, the commercial subsidiary of BBC News which operates the BBC World News channel and bbc.com, makes up most of the remainder and has seen increases across TV and digital of 6m, to 121m - another record high. Overall, BBC News has seen increases of 23m for TV (to 214m), 12m for audio (to 178m) and 18m for online (to 95m).
BBC Director General Tony Hall said: âEvery day our teams do an amazing job bringing independent, impartial news to audiences around the world, and today we can see just how much the BBC is valued. Thanks to Government investment weâve been able to launch the biggest expansion of the World Service since the Second World War, and this shows how much the BBC can do for the UK.â
Jamie Angus, Director of the BBC World Service Group said: âThe BBC is on track to reach its audience target of 500m weekly, and has posted all-time record audiences for both World Service Radio and BBC World News. But most importantly weâre continuing to produce groundbreaking journalism that is attracting growing audiences, and making huge impact. From investigative journalism like Africa Eye to our work countering fake news and disinformation, the BBC is showing why it remains worldâs most trusted international broadcasterâ.
Three countries - India, Kenya and the USA â have seen the most impressive gains since 2018. India, where BBC News now operates in nine languages, has seen a rise of 20m to 50m to become the top overseas market for BBC News. The USA becomes the 3rd largest market overall with 38m, up 5m. The audience in Kenya has increased from 6m to 15m in the last year reaching 50% of the population. In Afghanistan, the BBC reaches 59% of the population. BBC News websites (World Service and bbc.com) have increased their combined reach by 6m to 51m globally, bucking wider trends for news sites.
The top 10 countries by BBC News audience are:
¡ India 50m
¡ Nigeria 41m
¡ USA 38m
¡ Kenya 15m
¡ Afghanistan 12m
¡ Bangladesh 12m
¡ Egypt 11m
¡ Iran 11m
¡ Tanzania 10m
¡ Pakistan 9mThe total figure includes audiences for all BBC News services outside the UK and branded entertainment content on TV, BBC websites and social media pages for BBC Studios.
Syndication of BBC content via partner television and radio stations around the world, and distribution via digital platforms like YouTube and Facebook, now add up to over 60% of audience reach.Audio continues to be a major platform for the World Service, rising by 12.9m to 173m listeners worldwide. On all platforms, 30% of the audience is aged between 15-24 years.
Over the past 2 years, new BBC News bureaux were opened in India, Kenya, Nigeria and South Korea and 12 new language services were launched as part the largest expansion of the BBC World Service since the 1940s, funded by the UK government. The expansion has taken place against a background of rapid growth of rival international news services from Russia, China and the Middle East.
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BBC GLOBAL NEWS ANNOUNCES RECORD PROFITS AND REACH
BBC Global News, the BBCâs commercial, international news subsidiary which operates the 24 hour news channel BBC World News and its digital counterpart BBC.com, has reported record figures in its 2018/19 annual report, out today (2ndJuly 2019).
The company posted an EBITDA (earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation) profit of ÂŁ8million.
BBC World Newsâ global footprint continued to expand, growing by 2% over the year. The channel is now available to a record 465 million households, up from 458 million the previous year. The growth was driven by gains in the Americas and South Asia.
BBC.com also increased its reach, from 88 million monthly browsers in 2017/18, to 93.5 million, up 6% year on year.
Separate figures published last month revealed that combined global audiences across TV and digital had risen by 6 million to a record 121 million on a weekly basis.
Jim Egan, CEO of BBC Global News, said, âFar from being outdated or irrelevant, our long-standing commitment to trust and credibility is more highly valued by our audiences and clients around the world than ever before. In a landscape where single issue, agenda-driven or simply fake news is becoming increasingly commonplace, itâs vital to ensure that there is a quality alternative which is truly impartial, accurate and independent.â
BBC Global Newsâ strong performance is a result of the successful transfer of BBC Advertising from BBC Worldwide, which created a fully integrated business offering a client-focused commercial proposition, along with investment in business development opportunities such as BBC Reel and BBC Music (in North America) - new content propositions which drove both audiences and sales.
2018/19 saw a significant increase in off-platform consumption, with BBC.com content now reaching over 22 million users per month on platforms such as Apple News, MSN and Facebook Instant Articles. BBC Global News entered into a new agreement with Facebook to deliver a weekly show, âCut Through TheNoiseâ, on its Watch platform, and launched a new live news streaming service on Yahoo! Japan. The BBC News YouTube channel saw significant growth in 2018/19, passing 4 million subscribers and over 1 billion lifetime video views since the channel was launched in 2013.
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