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Keep up with the latest work from @BBCRD!
🔴The best way to follow us is now through our new newsletter. ✉️ 💻 📱
🟢Find out about the work in our labs that’s helping to shape the future of media and technology
🔵Get website article alerts and roundups of big new subjects...
ALT Screenshot of an edition of the BBC R&D Newsletter.
ALT Screenshot of an edition of the BBC R&D Newsletter.
We’re back @IBCShow for 2025!
Today @BBCRD is showcasing cutting-edge work on cloud-based live production, fighting disinformation, and open-source innovation.
Here’s what’s happening on Saturday in Amsterdam 👇 #IBC2025
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Full details of everything we're doing at @IBCShow this week is here, with links to find out when, where and to read more!
bbc.co.uk/rd/articles/2025-0…
We’ve won a prestigious 2025 Engineering, Science & Technology Emmy Award for our lasting impact on the industry!
This award celebrates companies that have fundamentally changed the way we all experience TV.
Read how our work touches your everyday life:
bbc.co.uk/rd/articles/2025-0…
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AWARDS SUCCESS
An Emmy for R&D!
Our 8th Emmy since 1996, this award recognises BBC R&D's contribution to television over the last 90 years.
GLOBAL IMPACT
From radio to TV to the internet… from DAB to HDR to AI…
BBC R&D has been shaping how the world experiences media for nearly a century.
You might never *see* our work directly, but you experience it every day.
Now, we've been recognised with one of TV’s highest honours… 🏆
From radio to TV to the internet… from DAB to HDR to AI…
BBC R&D has been shaping how the world experiences media for nearly a century.
You might never *see* our work directly, but you experience it every day.
Now, we've been recognised with one of TV’s highest honours… 🏆
We’ve won a prestigious 2025 Engineering, Science & Technology Emmy Award for our lasting impact on the industry!
This award celebrates companies that have fundamentally changed the way we all experience TV.
Read how our work touches your everyday life:
bbc.co.uk/rd/articles/2025-0…
ALT An Emmy Award, above some text reading:
AWARDS SUCCESS
An Emmy for R&D!
Our 8th Emmy since 1996, this award recognises BBC R&D's contribution to television over the last 90 years.
GLOBAL IMPACT
Congrats to our Phil Layton who's recognised as an @smpteconnect fellow!🎉
"For attaining an outstanding rank among engineers or executives in media & entertainment through their proficiency & contributions to the motion-picture, TV, or related industries"
smpte.org/blog/smpte-announc…
Inside R&D: Innovation Explained is our new series of interviews with the R&D team, lifting the lid on technological changes that are affecting the media industry. The podcast is available on several platforms - all the links and episode details below 👇🎧
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Episode 2 looks at disinformation - and how we're working to establish standards for Content Credentials like @C2PA_org which will help journalists prove the authenticity of their stories.
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The internet has become one of the most important spaces for social interaction we have ever seen, and the debate about its impact on all aspects of society is urgent and pressing.
Our latest report looks at how social media and networks shape the environment the BBC operates in
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Our new report - The Social Internet - highlights an emerging crisis for the giant social platforms. - toxic and polarised online environments, but enormous potential to transform our world in positive ways.
bbc.co.uk/rd/articles/2025-0…