- Broadcast Empire v0.16.1 — The Controller's Desk - 5 September 2026
Take your seat at the Controller's Desk Broadcast Empire v0.16.1 brings a new daily station briefing, a stronger weekly planning rhythm, and more decisions across television, streaming and marketing. There is also more evidence behind your overnight results, helping you decide what deserves another chance and what needs to change. Your station, at a glance The new Controller's Desk brings urgent decisions, tonight's schedule and opposition, board objectives, cash runway, struggling shows and your biggest rival threat into one management screen. Monday planning meetings put a weekly priority on your desk, while the Sunday report reviews how the week went. Updated developments dialogs give you direct routes to the decisions and departments that need attention. A clearer picture of performance Overnight broadcast reviews now compare actual audiences with historical expectations, show recor…
- V0.14.1 - 31 May 2026
Broadcast Empire v0.14.1 This update focuses on new-save customisation, smarter scheduling, and a few important fixes around live rights and long-running saves. New Game Settings Added gameplay sliders when starting a new save. You can now adjust starting cash, starting audience reach, sponsor value, advertising value, production costs, airing costs, operating costs, talent fees, talent approachability, and talent trouble. Added an optional “game ends when the station runs out of cash” setting. Existing saves continue using the default Broadcast Empire balance. Economy & Balance Gameplay settings now feed into commission costs, recommission costs, talent costs, sponsor offers, live sponsorships, advertising income, airing costs, and weekly operating costs. Starting audience reach now properly affects early audience growth limits and reach floors. Cash game-over saves are now marked as e…
- V0.13.1 - 28 May 2026
Broadcast Empire v0.13.1 This update brings soaps into Broadcast Empire as a proper long-running programming system, alongside improvements to talent generation, rights handling, Workshop support and franchise pacing. New: Soaps Soaps are now a full commissioning category, built for high-volume scheduling and long-term audience loyalty. Added 20 new soap formats, including family soaps, teen soaps, daytime soaps and telenovella-style young adult soaps. Added new soap title card artwork. Soap commissions now support 2-5 episodes per week production frequency. Soap budgets now account for bigger casts, writing room costs, production pace and episode volume. Soap repeats can be bought as completed episode batches. Added a new Soap Desk on show detail pages. Soap Storylines And Cast Management Soaps now have ongoing story arcs and regular characters. Start soap storylines such as weddings,…
- v0.12.1 - 25 May 2026
Broadcast Empire v0.12.1 This update expands Workshop data packs and adds several quality-of-life improvements across commissions, IP, branding, rights, films, and regulator visibility. Workshop expansion Workshop packs can now add live rights, films, and station branding, alongside shows, talent, producers, directors, rivals, and live formats. The Workshop Manager has new authoring tabs for live rights, films, and branding, including image selection and pack summary counts. Live rights packs can create recurring packages or one-off events that appear in future Rights Market windows. Workshop films are now added to the starting film library when a selected pack is used for a new game. Branding packs can change the station shell colours and page header artwork across major management screens. Workshop uploads now tag and count the new content types, making packs clearer before publishing…
- v0.11.1 - 24 May 2026
Broadcast Empire v0.11.1 This update deepens the station-management side of Broadcast Empire, with autosaves, clearer audience identity, more show-by-show creative control, stronger advertiser memory, department heads, fan communities, and smarter rival pressure. New and expanded systems Autosave is now built in, including automatic saves during play and after day advance, plus a small footer status indicator. Viewer personas now emerge from your schedule. Repeatedly serving groups like Sunday families, prestige drama viewers, news loyalists, sports regulars, late horror fans, and youth late-night viewers can strengthen your station identity and influence future ratings. Department heads have been added to Strategy. Scheduling, Publicity, Compliance, Sales, Engineering, and Commissioning now affect viewing, ad income, risk, reliability, and show quality. You can fund department support…
- v0.9.5 - 20 May 2026
There are no specific gameplay updates in this release. The new part of the release is 'The Club' - our Soho Lunch Club where you can swap content with other industry creatives (a.k.a. Mods in Steam Workshop ;) )You can create your own Talent, Rivals, Live Formats and Show Formats - keep to yourself, or upload to the Steam Workshop and share with the community.Browse the items on the community and add to a new game.Choose which mods to add at the start of a new game, existing save games will not be affected.
- V0.8.1 Release - 19 May 2026
Broadcast Empire v0.8.1 Release NotesThis update expands the station management side of Broadcast Empire, with a bigger focus on multi-channel scheduling, rival behaviour, regulation, and clearer financial consequences.Major ChangesAdded player channel services. You can now launch additional services including Sport, News, Movies, Drama, and +1 channels from Infrastructure.Added multi-channel scheduling. The scheduler now lets you switch between your launched channels, with each service having its own schedule, reach, restrictions, and broadcast hours.Added +1 channel support. +1 services automatically mirror the main channel one hour later between 19:00 and 23:00, with proper ratings, competition, and reduced airing costs.Added channel-specific marketing. Marketing campaigns can now target sub-channels as well as the main channel, genres, shows, VOD, and other campaign types.Expanded r…
- V0.5.1 - 15 May 2026
V0.5.1 Brings us closer to a finished V1 of the product. This release includes some bugfixes, display overhauls and new featuresLaunch Screen Changes - Both the splash and background animations updated to a cleaner lookOvernight broadcasting display - changed the design to match the rest of the gameWriters Room / Pilot Functionality. Pilots now appear after going through a writers room where you can refine elements of the show before sending it to pilotEnhanced talent contract management - exclusive deals, poachingEvent episodes - add a live episode to your series or crossover episodesEnhanced Rivals - actively and aggressively schedule against you and competeAudience Habits - audiences react to when you schedule different shows and form viewing habits around themIP Library - sweat the IP that you own - franchise shows to international broadcasters, license merchandise ranges, create sp…
- v0.4.1 - 13 May 2026
Selected improvements released in version 0.4.1Pilot Season. New improved method for green-lighting pilot shows and attaching talent.Talent Selectors - Improved talent selector aestheticsScheduler - Improved logic around auto schedulingSponsors - Improved live event sponsor logicInteractive decisions - added incidents requiring on the spot decisions affecting performance
- Launch Bugfix - 12 May 2026
Just a quick update with a bugfix that stopped some steam users from launching the game.Included in this release are further tweaks to the live rights auctions, viewing figures and general gameplay tweaks.
- Major Gameplay Update: Strategy, Rights, Infrastructure and Audience Identity - 10 May 2026
Broadcast Empire’s major gameplay update is here This release is a big step toward the deeper TV management game Broadcast Empire is meant to become. Your station is no longer just a list of shows and time slots. It now has an identity, an audience, infrastructure limits, commercial pressure, live rights obligations, sponsor targets, talent consequences, and a much more strategic schedule. Major Gameplay AdditionsStation Strategy: choose your channel positioning, track audience mood, follow genre trends, and build a clearer identity over time.Audience Segments: families, sports fans, youth viewers, prestige drama viewers, and news loyalists now respond differently to your schedule.Infrastructure Projects: upgrade studios, newsroom, outside broadcast, ad sales, distribution, broadcast hours, satellite, cable, and VOD apps.Live Rights Market: bid for major live events, accept exclusive ap…
- Early Access now Available - 8 February 2025
I'm so happy to announce that the very first early access version of Broadcast Empire has now gone live. I'm aiming to bring loads of new features to this game and evolve it hugely over the next 12 months. I'd love your feedback and suggestions on the way to make this a fully featured fun experience. Currently, it's a bit basic, it's a playable proof of concept that will expand - join me on this exciting journey and see where we can take this.
- Early Beta Playtest now live - 30 January 2025
I'm excited to announce that our limited Playtest beta is now available for download. This is for feedback purposes at this stage, many gameplay activities are still to be added and will be rolled out over the next few weeks. The playtest does not send through achievements and stats to steam and is limited to just 10 days of gameplay. Games saved in the playtest should be playable in the full early access version once that's release
