BBC Worldwide Collection International to form 2 Entertain, which was part owned by BBC Worldwide; the following year the company sold "Eve" magazine to Haymarket Group and in 2006 the company sold a majority stake in BBC Books to publisher Random House. In 2007 BBC Worldwide purchased a 75% stake in the travel guide publisher Lonely Planet, acquiring the final 25% of the company in 2011. The acquisition was part of the BBC's strategy to grow its online portfolio and to increase its operations in Australia and the USA. In January 2009 it was announced that Ofcom had put forward the recommendation
BBC Monitoring Both Committees demanded proper funding to ensure BBC Monitoring's future Chris Westcott left BBC Monitoring in March 2015 having been its Director since April 2003, and was succeeded by Lucio Mesquita until he left the BBC in 2016. Sara Beck is the current Director of BBC Monitoring. BBC Monitoring BBC Monitoring is a division of the British Broadcasting Corporation which monitors, and reports on, mass media worldwide. Based at New Broadcasting House, BBC's headquarters in London, it has a number of overseas bureaux including Moscow, Nairobi, Kiev, Tashkent, Cairo, Tbilisi, and Delhi. A signals-receiving station for BBC Monitoring is at