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Matching OBEs have been awarded to Alex Mahon, former Chief Executive of Channel 4, and Charlotte Moore, former Director of BBC Content. (NB Tim Davie became a CBE when he was Director of BBC Studios). 

Martin Baker, Chief Commercial Officer and Paralympic supremo at Channel 4 is also honoured. 

At the BBC, Rugby commentator Jonathan Davies is upgraded to CBE. Roy Clarke, OBE, creator of Last of the Summer Wine, is knighted, at 95. There are gongs for Gabby Logan, one of three Match of the Day presenters; Richard Osman, of Pointless and House of Games; Marcus Wareing, one of the remaining clean hands on Masterchef; and Helen Mark, freelance presenter of Ulster-Scots show Kintra on BBC Radio Ulster, as well as Open Country.  

There's an MBE for Kate Peters, who's been running BBC News coverage in Moscow and Kyiv off and on (with an intervening spell in Delhi) over a 30 year period. Tony Fallshaw, recently retired 'Picture Correspondent' (cameraman) at BBC News, and Julie Ritson, a Shoot/Edit Camera Journalist  and trainer who took voluntary redundancy in March 2025 after 36 years, both get gongs. 

Helen Gill, a former BBC radio studio manager, gets the British Empire Medal, for setting up the Monday Night Club in Worcester; it's aim is to allow people with learning disabilities to lead more fulfilling lives, learn new skills, keep old friendships alive and forge new ones.

Middlesbrough-born playwright Ishtiaq Din, better known as Ishy Din, becomes an MBE; he went through the 2016 BBC TV Drama Writers course, and wrote John Barnes Saved My Life for Radio 5Livc.