BBC Worldwide profits up by 62% on last year to £89m

· Profit quoted refers to Profit Before Interest and Tax
· Sales and Profits quoted include BBC Worldwide’s share of joint ventures unless otherwise stated
· BBC Worldwide's full Report and Financial Statements for the year ended 31 March 2006 may be obtained from Companies House
· The BBC publishes its own plc-style Annual Report and Accounts in July 2006

· UK's No 1 TV Channel operator with 18 channels including ten in the UK held in joint venture with Flextech (UKTV)
· Channels will be an important growth area in the future
· Channels reach 288 million homes globally – up from 245 million last year; BBC America reached target of 45 million US homes and is now in half cable homes in USA. Ratings rising 20% in primetime
· UKTV delivered £4.0m dividend to BBC Worldwide, over 90% up on 2004/05
· Darren Childs, previously MD, Sony Pictures Television International, recruited to head up business
· BBC Japan ceased broadcasting, but BBC Prime launched in South Korea
· 2005/06 intense period of assessment and review

· No 1 Exporter of television programmes
· 30th Year of BBC Showcase where 500 broadcast buyers attend to browse and buy from a catalogue of some 40,000 TV hours. Second year of BBC Showcase in Latin America
· Re-focused strategy into 'emerging' and 'developed' markets. Growth expected in certain territories: India, China, Latin America, Russia and Poland
· New contemporary drama re-ignites market for British shows
· Seven pitches for Indian FM radio licences won with partner Mid Day Multimedia Ltd
· Also distribute Indie-produced programmes commissioned by ITV, C4 and Five

· New division, headed up by director Wayne Garvie (joined from BBC Entertainment), comprising the Independent Unit, Investment Unit, format sales and local production
· Voted No 1 Distributor of Choice by UK Independent Producers (Broadcast, Sept 2005)
· Production office opened in Los Angeles in 2005
· Dancing with the Stars - the international format for Strictly Come Dancing - has now been sold in 27 countries and won several awards including the Broadcast award for Best International Programme Sales. It is ABC’s top rating entertainment show (US) and on Series 5 in Australia
· Following success of Deep Blue, the film Earth is now in development with BBC Production

· UK's third largest consumer magazine publisher, selling over 90m magazines in 2005/06 UK's third largest consumer magazine publisher, selling over 90m magazines in 2005/06 – ie.170 every minute.
· One in four adults reads a BBC title every month
· Profit shows an apparent reduction on 2004/05, but that year included a number of one-off items such as the sale of Eve magazine, which if excluded, leaves a year-on-year improvement of 2.5%
· Post year-end, 61% of specialist publishing company Origin (and the non-BBC titles it publishes) was sold to a management buy-out team. BBC Worldwide will retain a minority stake for a period of time as part of a staged exit
· CBeebies Weekly and BBC Sky at Night launched (and Doctor Who Adventures and Amy just after year end)
· Radio Times is the UK's biggest-selling premium-priced listings magazine and No 1 magazine brand
· Subscriptions are approaching 600,000 and a key area of growth. Dovetail joint venture formed to grow fulfilment business
· International activity grew: Top Gear now published in 30 countries and international licensing contracts increased to nearly 30
· Joint venture with The Times of India, Worldwide Media, now one of India's largest magazine companies; Top Gear magazine launched there in 2005/06

· First full trading year for 2 entertain – a joint venture with Woolworths plc. Sales of £115m delivering £25.8m profit, largely on DVD sales (also from music and film production). No 1 UK-owned DVD/Video distributor
· Learning – partnership created with Pearson Education for school, secondary, tertiary and EFL under BBC Active brand
· No 1 Audiobook publisher in UK. Started digital downloads in summer 2005 achieving sales of nearly 170,000 downloads across 1000 titles
· Seven high street shops and bbcshop.com. Retail and Direct Marketing sales were up from £8.9m to £11.8m. Business achieved break-even, improving on losses of £0.2m in 2004/05
· BBC Books achieved profit of £1.0m on sales of £20.4m after a loss of £(3.1)m in 2004/05. Business restructuring, which began in 2003/04, led to this strong turnaround in performance in 2005/06
· After year end, 22nd June 2006, BBC Books announced their acquisition by The Random House Group: BBC Worldwide will maintain a minority shareholding in the business
· Auschwitz by Laurence Rees won a coveted History Book of the Year award at British Book Awards

· Children's profile improved in US market with properties on major networks including Charlie & Lola (Disney Playhouse), Little Robots (Cartoon Network) and Doctor Who (SCI FI Channel)
· Children's live shows sold over 300,000 tickets, including 115,000 for CBeebies Live! show during the Christmas period
· BBC Children's books partnership with Penguin sold 1.9 million books
· Character Group's toy range for Doctor Who included UK's second best-selling toy over Christmas 2005 – the radio-controlled Dalek
· In China, the Teletubbies Edutainment Play Centre was opened in Dongguan and the Teletubbies Play and Development Centre in Shenzhen

· First mobile content deal signed with Orange to license TV clips and catchphrases as ringtones
· Radio International agreed deal with Sirius Satellite Radio for BBC Radio 1 to be broadcast in North America
· BBC Motion Gallery now has 30,000 clips online and its website attracted 900,000 visitors. Improved profits by 18% to £1.3m
· Groundwork laid for bbc.com and commercial iPlayer proposals – investment made in both of these
· Music archive deal with Universal in June 2005 has helped open up the BBC Music archive
· Many VoD, IPTV and interactive deals
· TV listings operation BDS was sold to BBC Broadcast (now known as Red Bee Media)
· Plan to exit Audiocall business in 2006/07