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Members of the Armed Forces will soon have expanded access to media and entertainment, from top-flight sports like football and rugby to podcasts, gaming, and the latest and Defence news.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Ministry of Defence has extended their commitment to BFBS (British Forces Broadcasting Service) with a new 10-year contract, expanding and adapting their service to a new media landscape, and ensuring that Service communities remain\u00a0 connected and informed wherever they are in the world at the touch of a button.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Media organisation and military charity BFBS plays a vital role in improving the experience and morale for service personnel and families wherever they are based, sustaining morale, fostering community, and alleviating isolation on deployment.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
This agreement is backed by the largest sustained increase in defence spending since the end of the Cold War, hitting 2.6% of GDP from April 2027.\u00a0 BFBS will develop new ways to connect with our service personnel, adapting their offer and technology, ensuring secure access in the most remote environments and investing in new entertainment platforms including gaming, catering to the tastes of all our personnel.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
\nBFBS are at the heart of service life, providing our personnel with access to secure, trusted entertainment, ranging from live football matches to the latest movie releases, and keeping\u00a0our people engaged in Forces life from gaming to developing news.\u00a0<\/p>\n
This 10-year contract renewal\u00a0demonstrates\u00a0our long-term commitment to our people – and will ensure they have media access relevant to their needs, devices and interests, wherever they serve. Our message to our Armed Forces community is clear: this government is on your side.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
The contract builds on more than eight decades of BFBS\u2019s dedication to connecting and entertaining the UK Armed Forces, bringing continued value for money. As\u00a0a registered charity, BFBS is uniquely positioned to secure content partnerships that would not\u00a0typically\u00a0be achievable through commercial procurement. For example, their premium overseas television lineup \u2014 including movies, series and major live sport bring our personnel\u00a0a huge morale boost\u00a0and a vital connection to home life.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Ben Chapman,\u00a0BFBS\u00a0CEO said:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/h3>\n
\nWe\u00a0are\u00a0very\u00a0excited\u00a0to announce this new contract\u00a0with the MOD,\u00a0and to\u00a0fulfil\u00a0our mission of\u00a0uniting\u00a0the UK Armed Forces and their families with\u00a0trusted, creative\u00a0media\u00a0experiences\u00a0for\u00a0the next decade.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
We\u00a0are living in\u00a0complex geopolitical times, with Defence at the top of the global agenda,\u00a0and never\u00a0has the media landscape been more disrupted.\u00a0BFBS plays a vital role in supporting the operational readiness and welfare of our military\u00a0wherever\u00a0they are serving, and we help\u00a0to\u00a0maintain\u00a0a healthy democracy\u00a0by ensuring\u00a0that all those who serve our country have access to trusted, relevant, and secure media.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
The commitment to extend this service is part of Government\u2019s wider efforts to strengthen the Offer for our Armed Forces personnel, including landmark action to buy back and renew nearly 40,000 military family homes, a new childcare scheme saving eligible forces families in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland up to \u00a36,000 per year per child by reimbursing early years childcare costs, and the establishment of a new, independently-appointed Armed Forces Commissioner with the power to investigate issues raised directly by personnel and their families.\u00a0<\/p>\n
About BFBS (British Forces Broadcasting Service)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/h3>\n
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- BFBS is a military charity and media\u00a0organisation\u00a0that entertains, informs, connects, and champions the UK Armed Forces.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n
- They help to\u00a0keep people in touch, building\u00a0morale among the Forces wherever they serve, offering them a way to share experiences with other personnel, as well as a valuable connection to life back home.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n
- BFBS\u00a0bring\u00a0trusted and secure entertainment, news, sport, and information services to the military, their families, and veterans worldwide.\u00a0With their first broadcast in 1943, BFBS have been providing our service personnel with access to some of their favourite television shows and movies\u00a0for over 80 years, helping them\u00a0stay\u00a0connected with home and keeping them up to date on the latest news, entertainment and sport fixtures.\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n
- They currently provide\u00a0up to 16 core channels on the BFBS TV set top box\u00a0with 30+ channels live and on demand on the BFBS TV Player for those based overseas.\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n
- See\u00a0bfbs.com<\/a>\u00a0for the latest\u00a0global\u00a0Defence news\u00a0and\u00a0stories.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n
\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n
\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.gov.uk \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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