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🚀 🎮 We're supporting the UK Armed Forces Rocket League Finals taking place at the National Esports Performance Campus in Sunderland. People can watch the whole thing live on the Royal Navy, British Army and Royal Air Force (RAF) Twitch channels, as well as getting all the behind-the-scenes content on all BFBS platforms. The winning team will be announced at the end of the day. 🇺🇦 Adam Waters Director of BFBS Academy & Creative says — 'If our Armed Forces want to recruit more STEM specialists, drone operators, or in fact just about any young person, then gaming is crucial. It's great for welfare too so we're delighted to be supporting this fantastic finale.' #RocketLeague #BFBS #UKArmedForces #Esports

To champion and entertain the military community is at the heart of what we do and esports has quickly become a vital part of it. This week, the UK Ministry of Defence launched esports across the British Army, Royal Air Force (RAF) and Royal Navy at an event showcasing the importance of gaming in our armed forces.

BFBS is proud to support the UK Armed Forces Rocket League Finals, taking place on 9th and 10th December at the National Esports Performance Campus. We’ll be providing extensive coverage of this exciting event across BFBS Forces News, BFBS Radio, and our social media platforms. Fans can also follow the competition live on the British Army Royal Navy and Royal Air Force (RAF) Twitch channels, with exclusive updates and behind-the-scenes content shared throughout the event. This tournament highlights the incredible skills and teamwork of the armed forces community, showcasing how esports has become an integral part of military life. Follow all the action and stay connected at https://brnw.ch/21wPddO. #RocketLeague #UKArmedForces #Esports #BFBS

🚚🍦 Exciting news from BFBS HQ today! We had the pleasure of welcoming our brand-new, environmentally-friendly ice cream van, now equipped with solar panels and electric power! 🌱🔋 Since 2010, our beloved Operation Ice Cream van has covered over 300,000 miles and served up around 250,000 ice creams – spreading countless smiles! 😊🍨 A special shout-out to the driver, Chris Pratt, who’s been with the company since 1986 and has been the face behind the wheel of the ice cream van for the last 14 years. Here’s to many more years of joy, community, and, of course, delicious ice creams! #BFBS #IceCreamVan #Sustainability #EcoFriendly

A huge pleasure to spend the evening with our friends at BT Media and Broadcast.   Though we missed out on a trophy it was fabulous to celebrate our collaboration and the achievements of our tech, project, and content teams delivering media content to our forces and their families based overseas. Thank you #BTIA2024 for a super event, and well done to all the winners!

Exciting times ahead as we work with nxtedition. #defencenews #videocontent #storytelling

Today we’re attending the #RadTechCon, talking to industry peers about the benefits and challenges of moving to cloud-based encoding, multiplexing & distribution platform. With an ever-changing audience that reaches from the UK to Canada, Bahrain and the Falkland Islands to name a few, BFBS has adapted to provide a trusted distribution platform that serves this wide footprint. At BFBS, we’re passionate about championing diversity in tech roles. A great example of this is our incredible Broadcast Engineer, Vanessa Tarrier, who joined our Principal Engineer, Mark Edgar on stage earlier today to share her expertise. Reflecting on her talk Vanessa said “It was fantastic to have the opportunity to share such an impressive project with a wider audience. As a female engineer at a technology event, it demonstrates how far we still have to go to achieve that balance”. #RadTechCon #Technology #WomenInTech #Radio #Broadcasting

📻🌐On Monday our colleagues, Principal Engineer Mark Edgar and Broadcast Engineer Vanessa Tarrier will be heading to the Radio TechCon at the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) London, to talk about the challenges of global delivery and the solution BFBS has engineered. This project has been nominated for the Tech Team of the Year Award, in partnership with BT Media and Broadcast, at the Broadcast Tech Innovation Awards. #RadTechCon #Radio #Technology #Broadcast #WomeninTech

🎉 We’re thrilled to share that five of our phenomenal BFBS Radio presenters took home an impressive seven awards at this year’s COMMUNITY RADIO AWARDS 🏆✨ That’s three Golds, three Silvers, and one Bronze! 🥇🥈🥉 We couldn’t be prouder of their hard work, passion, and dedication in delivering top-quality content to our global audience. 👏🌍 #BFBSRadio #CommunityRadioAwards #Broadcasting

🏆 ✨ BFBS Live Events produced last night's British Army Sports Awards, where the Army's best sportsmen and women were celebrated at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. BFBS Sports Editor Jon Knighton was the compère, whilst our BFBS Forces News team live streamed the event to ensure no one missed out – watch it here 👉 https://bit.ly/3CGH1q4 Karl Lambert our Social Media Manager said:  “I feel really privileged to be able to create content with some of the Army’s most inspiring soldiers and officers”. This was a true team effort! We would like to congratulate all the well deserving winners and nominees.