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 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 Crowsley Park in South Oxfordshire, close to former HQ Caversham Park. BBC Monitoring selects and translates information from radio, television, press, news agencies and the Internet from 150 countries in more than 100 languages. Reporting produced by the service is used as open-source intelligence by elements of