BBC Sounds
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BBC Sounds is now available on Freeview Play
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The app brings “thousands” of hours of podcasts and catch-up content plus over 50 BBC stations, to the platform.
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BBC Sounds app is now available outside the UK
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The BBC has announced it will switch off the current iPlayer Radio app “at some point in the near future”.
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BBC Sounds comes to YouView and Virgin Media set top boxes
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BBC bosses say the app will offer 80,000 hours of content to help entertain and inform audiences “during these very challenging times.”
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BBC Sounds app is coming to smart TVs in 2020
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The changes, confirmed on Monday by Chief Technology and Product Officer Matthew Postgate, will see the iPlayer become the sole source of all news and sports coverage, including “much of the video content that is currently available” in the dedicated apps.
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BBC Alexa skill update brings ‘resume’ feature to BBC Sounds app
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The update means listeners can now listen to a podcast on their phone using the BBC Sounds app while out and about and then resume it on Alexa once back at house.
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BBC creates new Controller roles for BBC iPlayer and BBC Sounds
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The BBC has announced the creation of two new Controller roles for BBC iPlayer and BBC Sounds, a move which the corporation says underlines the importance Director General Tony Hall places on reinventing the BBC for the future generation.