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A timeline of notable events relating to BBC Television News.
1930s
[
edit
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- 1936
- 2 November ? The BBC opens the world's first regular high-definition television service from
Alexandra Palace
. Television news coverage consists of cinema newsreels from British Movietone News and sound-only news bulletins from
BBC Radio
.
- 1939
- 1 September ? The BBC Television Service is suspended, owing to the imminent outbreak of the
Second World War
.
1940s
[
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]
- 1940 to 1945
- No events due to television being closed for the duration of the Second World War.
- 1946
- 7 June ? BBC Television broadcasts resume.
- BBC Radio bulletins start being simulcast on television with a still picture of
Big Ben
.
[1]
- 1948
- 5 January ? The first edition of
Television Newsreel
is broadcast. The weeknight programme, broadcast at 7:30pm runs for fifteen minutes.
1950s
[
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]
- 1953
- 2 June ? The coronation of
Queen Elizabeth II
in
Westminster Abbey
is televised by the BBC and watched live by an estimated audience of 20 million people in the United Kingdom.
- 11 November ? The first edition of
Panorama
is presented by
Daily Mail
reporter Pat Murphy.
Panorama
is the world's longest-running current affairs programme and retains a peak-time slot to this day.
- 1954
- 5 July ? BBC newsreader
Richard Baker
reads the first televised BBC News bulletin which replaces
Television Newsreel
.
- 7 October ? BBC Television covers a party political conference for the first time when it broadcasts from the Conservative Party Conference in Blackpool.
- 1957
- 18 February ? The first episode of
Tonight
is broadcast.
- 30 August ?
BBC Scotland
launches a weekday five-minute news bulletin and a Saturday teatime sports round-up. They launch one day before the start of broadcasting by
Scottish television
which provided its own regional news service from the outset.
- September ? The first broadcasts of regional news bulletins on the BBC take place and bulletins also start being broadcast in
Wales
and
Northern Ireland
.
- 30 September ? Regional television news bulletins for the north of England begin from Piccadilly's studio N in Manchester.
[3]
1960s
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]
- 1962
- 17 September ?
BBC Wales
launches
Wales Today
. The programme is seen by viewers in both Wales and the west of England until February 1964 when the
BBC Wales
and
BBC West
regions are created.
- 1964
- 20 April ?
BBC2
beings broadcasting and BBC News launches a new news programme for the channel called
Newsroom
.
- 26 April ? Another new news programme for BBC2 is launched called
News Review
. The programme is a summary of the week's news with subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing.
- 1965
- 18 June ?
Tonight
is broadcast on BBC1 for the final time.
[5]
- 1968
- 7 March ?
Newsroom
on BBC2 becomes the first UK news programme to be transmitted in colour.
[7]
- 25 March ? BBC regional television from
Leeds
begins and the first edition of
Look North
is broadcast. Previously, the Yorkshire area had been part of a wider North region based in
Manchester
.
- 1 April ? The first edition of
BBC Scotland
's
Reporting Scotland
is broadcast.
1970s
[
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]
- 1972
- 4 April ? The first edition of
Newsround
is broadcast, presented by
John Craven
.
- 29 December ? The final edition of BBC2's news programme
Newsroom
is broadcast. It is replaced by a five-minute news summary.
- 1973
- 2 January ? A new late evening extended news bulletin
News Extra
begins broadcasting on BBC2.
- 1974
- 7 January ? A two-minute mid-afternoon regional news summary is broadcast on
BBC1
for the first time. It is transmitted immediately before the start of the afternoon's children's programmes.
- 23 September ?
Teletext
service
Ceefax
goes live.
- 1975
- 1 September
- Tonight
returns to BBC1 after thirteen years off air. The new programme airs as a late evening news and analysis programme.
[10]
- BBC2's late evening news bulletin is renamed
Newsnight
.
- 1976
- 17 September ? The original incarnation of
Newsnight
is broadcast for the final time. It is replaced three days later with a shorter bulletin called
Late Night News on 2
.
- 1979
- 5 July ? The final edition of
Tonight
is broadcast on BBC1.
[11]
- 25 September ? The first edition of
Question Time
is broadcast on BBC1.
1980s
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]
- 1980
- 28 January ?
Newsnight
is launched on BBC2.
[12]
- March ? The first in-vision
Ceefax
transmissions are broadcast.
- 1982
- BBC News provides extensive coverage of the
Falklands War
with newsflashes supplemented by additional and extended news bulletins, including weekend editions of
Newsnight
.
- 1 November ? The first edition of Welsh-language news bulletin
Newyddion
is broadcast on the first night of broadcasting of Wales' new fourth channel
S4C
.
- 1983
- 17 January ?
Breakfast Time
, the UK's first national breakfast television service is launched. News bulletins and summaries are broadcast every 15 minutes.
[14]
- 5 August ? The final edition of
Nationwide
is broadcast.
[15]
- 24 October ?
Sixty Minutes
launches as the new evening news programme to replace
Nationwide
.
- 1984
- 27 July ? The final edition of
Sixty Minutes
is broadcast.
- 30 July ? BBC1's teatime news programme reverts to its original name of
Evening News
and to its original broadcast time of 5:40pm. The regional news programmes follow, broadcasting for 20 minutes from 5:55pm. This is a stop-gap measure and continues for five weeks.
- 4?12 August ? The BBC's coverage of the
1984 Summer Olympic Games
sees
Breakfast Time
being given over to Olympic Games highlights, and this includes weekend editions. News summaries are broadcast on the hour and this is the first time that the BBC has broadcast a full service of pre-lunchtime news bulletins at the weekend.
[16]
- 3 September ? BBC1's teatime news hour is relaunched and now runs from 6pm until 7pm. A new 30-minute long news programme
the Six O'Clock News
is launched and this is followed by a longer regional news magazine which is expanded to 25 minutes.
- 18 November ? The BBC launches its first Sunday lunchtime political interview show called
This Week, Next Week
.
- December ? BBC1 stops broadcasting a late night news summary.
- 1985
- 23 January ? Television coverage of proceedings in the
House of Lords
begins.
[17]
- 30 August ? The weekday lunchtime
Financial Report
, broadcast on BBC1 in London and the south east, is broadcast for the final time ahead of the launch of a lunchtime regional news bulletin for viewers in the
BBC South East
region.
- 2 September ? A regional news bulletin following the
Nine O'Clock News
is launched.
- 22 December ? Having been broadcast every Sunday teatime since the launch of BBC2 in 1964,
News Review
is broadcast for the final time.
- 1986
- 4 January ? The first edition of
NewsView
is broadcast on BBC2. The new Saturday early evening programme lasts 40 minutes and combines the day's news with a look back at the week's news.
- 9 June ? The BBC launches its first parliamentary review programme when the first edition of
The Lords This Week
(renamed
The Week in the Lords
later in 1986) is shown on BBC2.
- 17 October ?
BBC2
broadcasts a teatime news summary with subtitles for the last time. For the past three years this bulletin which had been broadcast at around 5:25pm, had been the first programme of the day (apart from educational programmes and sports coverage).
- 24 October ? Ahead of the launch of the BBC's new daytime service,
News After Noon
is broadcast for the final time.
- 27 October
- BBC1
starts a full daytime television service. Among the new programmes is a new lunchtime news bulletin, the
One O'Clock News
. The programme continues to this day.
- The weekday mid-afternoon regional news summary moves to
BBC2
.
- 10 November ?
Breakfast Time
is relaunched with a more formal news and current affairs format.
[18]
- 8 December ? Six weeks after launching its daytime service, BBC TV starts broadcasting hourly
news summaries
. Morning bulletins are shown on BBC1 and early afternoon summaries (at 2pm, 3pm and 3:50pm) are shown on BBC2. Each bulletin is followed by a weather forecast.
- 1988
- 18 September ?
On the Record
replaces
This Week Next Week
as BBC1's Sunday lunchtime political discussion programme.
- 31 October ? For the first time,
Newsnight
is given a fixed starting time, of 10:30pm.
1990s
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]
- 1990
- 14 January ? Following the start of television coverage of the House of Commons, the BBC launches a regional politics programme. It forms part of a new Sunday lunchtime
Westminster Hour
.
[20]
- 15 October ? As part of a relaunch of its weekday morning output, the new service includes hourly regional news summaries, broadcast after the on-the-hour news bulletins.
- 1991
- 7 January ? The
BBC East Midlands
region is created and the first edition of
East Midlands Today
is broadcast.
- 16 January?2 March ? BBC News provides extensive coverage of the
Gulf War
. In addition to extended news bulletins, a daytime news and analysis programme
War in the Gulf
is broadcast, presented by
David Dimbleby
although as the War progresses,
War in the Gulf
is scaled back to allow BBC1 to resume its regular daytime schedule.
- 2 March ?
NewsView
is broadcast on
BBC Two
for the final time, bringing to an end the weekly news review with on-screen subtitles that BBC Two had broadcast since the channel first went on air in 1964. BBC Two replaces the programme with a standard 15-minute news and sport bulletin.
- 15 April ? The World Service Television News service is launched. Unlike World Service radio which is funded by direct grant from the
Foreign and Commonwealth Office
, WSTV is commercially funded and carries advertising which means that it cannot be broadcast in the UK.
- 21 September ? The BBC launches a five-minute long weekend breakfast news bulletin.
[21]
- 1993
- 3 January ? The debut of
Breakfast with Frost
, a Sunday morning current affairs programme on BBC1 presented by
David Frost
.
[22]
- 13 April ? For the first time, all
BBC News
programmes have the same look following a relaunch of all of the main news bulletins.
- 1994
- 19 September ? BBC2 launches a weekday afternoon business,
personal finance
and consumer news programme
Working Lunch
, which broadcasts for 42 weeks per year.
- 1996
- 9 May ? The BBC announces the launch of a new rolling news channel as part of its plans for digital television.
[23]
- 1997
- 31 August ?
BBC1
continues to air through the whole night, simulcasting with
BBC World
News to bring news updates of
Diana, Princess of Wales
's
car accident
. At 6am, a rolling news programme is shown on both BBC1 and BBC2 until BBC2 breaks away at 3pm to provide alternative programming. BBC1 continues to provide coverage until closedown when it once again hands over to BBC World. During the following week, BBC1 broadcasts extended news coverage of the events following
Princess Diana
's death.
- 6 September ? The funeral of
Diana, Princess of Wales
is broadcast on BBC Radio & Television and aired to over 200 countries worldwide. Nearly 3 billion viewers and listeners watch and listen to the ceremonies.
- 4 November ?
BBC News Online
launches.
[24]
This follows specially created websites covering the
1997 general election
and the
death of Princess Diana
.
- 9 November ?
BBC News 24
launches at 5:30pm.
- 1998
- 23 September ? Following its purchase of the cable-only Parliamentary Channel, the BBC launches
BBC Parliament
on digital satellite and analogue cable with an audio feed of the channel on
DAB
.
[25]
- 20 October ? A new late night programme review of the day's events in
Westminster
,
Despatch Box
, is launched. It replaces
The Midnight Hour
.
- 15 November
- The public launch of digital terrestrial TV in the UK. Consequently, BBC News 24 is now available to all digital viewers for the first time.
- The first edition of
UK Today
is broadcast. It airs as a replacement for the regional news bulletins because English variations on satellite were not possible due to a single broadcast feed being able to cover the entirety of England (in reality it could cover much of north and western Europe) and also because the regional broadcasting centres had not been upgraded to digital which meant they were unable to opt-out of the network. Therefore, in the initial months of digital television in the UK, BBC regional news was only available to analogue viewers.
2000s
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- 2000
- 20 June ─ BBC Television Centre suffers a power failure, leading to BBC News 24 (and other BBC channels) going off air temporarily. Staff were evacuated from the building. Later news broadcasts had to be recorded at the company's Westminster studios.
[29]
- 15 September ? The final edition of
Breakfast News
is broadcast.
- 2 October
- The first edition of
BBC Breakfast
is broadcast on BBC One and News 24 from 6am to 9:30am, to 9am on BBC News 24.
- BBC News starts broadcasting in
16:9
widescreen.
- 13 October ? The final edition of the
BBC Nine O'Clock News
is broadcast on BBC One.
- 16 October
- 2001
- 16 July ? The first edition of
60 Seconds
is broadcast on
BBC Choice
. The bulletin is broadcast on the hour each evening between 7pm and midnight.
- 3 September ? As part of a major reorganisation of the BBC's south east region,
Kent
and
Sussex
get their own news programme called
South East Today
which replaces
Newsroom South East
.
- 11 September ? Viewers around the world witness a
terrorist attack
on the United States and the collapse of the
Twin Towers
in New York City, live on television. BBC1 abandons regular programming to provide up to date coverage of unfolding events.
- 1 October ?
BBC London
is launched, replacing
Newsroom South East
.
[30]
- 2002
- 25 January ?
UK Today
ends after all of the BBC's regional centres are upgraded for digital broadcasting. However, due to cost considerations, the BBC decides not to create separate regional services for BBC two in England. Despite this, the weekday afternoon regional bulletin continues on BBC Two and digital viewers see
BBC London News
rather than their own regional news bulletin.
- 11 February ? As part of the launch of the
CBBC
channel,
Newsround
is expanded and several editions are broadcast on there throughout the day.
- 30 October ?
BBC Parliament
launches on
digital terrestrial television
, having previously only been available as an audio-only service. However, capacity limitations mean that the picture is squeezed into just one quarter of the screen.
- 11 November ? The first edition of a new
East Yorkshire
and Lincolnshire edition of
BBC Look North
is broadcast, while the Leeds-based
Look North
programme now covers the West, North and South Yorkshire and the North Midlands.
- 20 December ? The final editions of
Westminster Live
and
Despatch Box
are broadcast.
- 2003
- 8 January ? As a result of the review of the BBC's political output,
[31]
coverage of politics on BBC Television is relaunched resulting in the first editions of
Daily Politics
and its Sunday companion programme the
Politics Show
.
[32]
- 16 January ? BBC One broadcasts the first edition of
This Week
.
- 9 February ? The launch of
BBC Three
results in the start of a new news bulletin for the channel called
The 7 O'Clock News
.
- 20 March ? As the
2003 invasion of Iraq
begins, many broadcasters abandon regular programming to provide up to date coverage of unfolding events.
- 4 July ? The mid-afternoon regional news bulletin is moved from BBC Two to BBC One.
- 8 December ?
BBC News 24
is relaunched with a new set and titles, as well as a new Breaking News sting. Networked news on BBC One and Two remains with the same titles though the set was redesigned in a similar style to that of the new News 24.
- 2004
- 16 February ? Network news titles are relaunched in the style of BBC News 24, introduced two months earlier.
- 2006
- 31 May ?
The World
on
BBC Four
is replaced by an edition of
World News Today
.
- 13 November ?
BBC Parliament
broadcasts in full-screen format for the first time on the
Freeview
service, having previously only been available in quarter-screen format.
[36]
The
BBC
eventually found the
bandwidth
to make the channel full-screen after receiving "thousands of angry and perplexed e-mails and letters",
[37]
not to mention questions asked by MPs in the Houses of Parliament itself.
- 2007
- 22 January ?
BBC News 24
is relaunched with new titles and new Astons.
- May ? A pilot of a new 8pm
BBC News Summary
begins in the East Midlands prior to being rolled out across the UK. The summary consists of a national bulletin followed by a regional summary.
- 9 September ? The
BBC One
Sunday morning political programme
Sunday AM
is renamed
The Andrew Marr Show
when it returns after its Summer break.
[38]
[39]
2010s
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]
- 2012
- 15 January ?
The Sunday Politics
is broadcast for the first time.
- 7 March ?
Brighton
moves from South region to South-East region, after the
Meridian
digital switchover.
- July?September ?
BBC News Channel
, Network bulletin's and
BBC World News
temporary move output to the Olympic Park in Bow for the duration of the
2012 Olympic Games
.
- 23 October ? The BBC's teletext service
Ceefax
is switched off following all regions switching to digital broadcasting. The very last
Pages from Ceefax
transmission had taken place two days earlier.
- 21 December ?
Newsround
is broadcast on BBC One for the final time due to the decision to end the BBC One afternoon block of children's programmes.
- 2013
- 5 April ?
BBC Monitoring
moves to Licence Fee funding.
[43]
- 10 December ? The BBC News Channel starts broadcasting in high definition.
[44]
- 2018
- 30 May ? The final 8pm
BBC News Summary
is broadcast.
- 24 July ? The final edition of
Daily Politics
and Sunday spin-off
The Sunday Politics
) is broadcast, ending a fifteen-year run as BBC News' flagship weekday politics show.
[49]
[50]
- 3 September ? The first edition of
Politics Live
is broadcast.
[51]
- 2019
- 4 March ? The Monday to Thursday editions of
BBC News at Ten
are cut from 45 minutes to 35 minutes. The reduction affects editions of the national and local news bulletins airing in that timeslot, as well as the post-bulletin weather forecast and is done to make way for a new
BBC Three
strand of programming, as well as avoiding a clash with the start of BBC Two's
Newsnight
.
[52]
- 18 July ? BBC One broadcasts the final edition of
This Week
after sixteen years on air. A special live audience edition of the programme marks its finale.
[53]
- 18 November ? The BBC announces plans to close its
red button
text service by the end of 30 January 2020.
[54]
2020s
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]
- 2020
- 29 January ? The BBC announces that it has suspended its plan to switch-off the
BBC Red Button
service, one day before the service was due to have started being phased out. The announcement comes following a petition, organised by the National Federation of the Blind of the UK (NFBUK),
[55]
which was submitted to the BBC and Downing Street.
[56]
following protests.
[56]
- 17 March ? The final edition of
The Victoria Derbyshire Show
is broadcast to focus on coverage of the
COVID-19 pandemic
. The programme had been due to come off air later in 2020 due to funding cuts.
[57]
[58]
- 30 March ?
Newsnight
moves to a 10:45pm start time. This was due to Newsnight temporarily sharing a studio with
BBC News at Ten
during the
COVID-19 pandemic
to cut footfall in Broadcasting House and allow turnover in the studio, due to News at Ten not finishing until 10:35pm.
[59]
The programme retains its new later start time after moving to a new studio in October.
- July ? The teatime edition of
Newsround
is axed, having been on air since 1972. It ended following the BBC concluding that children no longer turn on traditional television channels when they return home from school and instead the BBC would focus on the morning edition which will be aimed at schools where it is often used by teachers in classrooms.
[60]
- August ? The additional simulcasts between the BBC News Channel and BBC World News are made permanent. Consequently, the two channels now simulcast between each day 10am to 12pm and on weekdays 7pm to 6am with opt-outs for
BBC News at Ten
and for half an hour at 8:30pm and between 9pm to 6am, apart from the evening
BBC One
bulletin at the weekend.
[61]
- 2021
- 9 April ? At just after midday,
Buckingham Palace
announces the
death of Prince Philip
and BBC One, BBC Two, BBC Parliament and BBC World News switch over to BBC News to announce the death.
[62]
The message was likely received during the top-of-the hour headlines, as the wide-shot in the opening featured multiple journalists running across the room.
[63]
- 19 December ? The final edition of
The Andrew Marr Show
is broadcast, ending after 15 years ahead of Andrew leaving the BBC.
- 2022
- 13 June ? BBC News unveils its flagship studio
[64]
for use during
BBC News at Six
,
[65]
BBC News at Ten
[66]
and
BBC London'
s local newscasts.
[67]
The newsroom's new look and technological features
[68]
are first introduced to the viewing public by Huw Edwards on a report during
The One Show
with Alex Jones.
[69]
[70]
- 14 July ? The BBC sets out plans for a new global news channel titled BBC News. It will replace its two existing news services for the UK and overseas. It is scheduled to launch in April 2023.
[71]
- 4 September ? The first edition of
Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg
is broadcast.
[72]
- 8 September ? Just after 6:30pm,
Buckingham Palace
announces the
Death and state funeral of Elizabeth II
and BBC One, BBC Two, BBC Parliament and BBC World News switch over to BBC News to announce the death of
Elizabeth II
. BBC One was already on air covering The Queen's health while they announced it live on air.
- 16 December ? The Cambridgeshire edition of
BBC Look East
ends as part of cost-cutting measures across the BBC. The Cambridge studios will close, with all broadcasts returning to their pre-1997 region-wide format broadcast from the existing studios in Norwich.
[73]
The
Oxford
edition of
South Today
will also be scrapped.
[74]
[75]
- 2023
- 3 April ? The
BBC News Channel
closes as a stand-alone channel. It merges with
BBC World News
to form a single worldwide news channel called BBC News with programmes based on BBC World News output although the ability to break away from international programming for a major UK news story is retained. The weekday simulcasts of the BBC One news bulletins and
BBC Breakfast
continue to be shown on the channel and a simulcast of
Newsnight
is launched.
- 17 April-October ?
Nicky Campbell
's
BBC Radio 5 Live
weekday morning show starts to be simulcast on
BBC Two
and the BBC News Channel.
[76]
[77]
This is the first time that a BBC radio programme has been simulcast on a BBC television channel. The simulcast ends in October to allow for extended live coverage of the
Israel?Hamas war
conflict and when programming returns to normal, the simulcast does not reappear.
[78]
- 2024
- 28 May ?
Newsnight
relaunches as a half-hour "interview, debate and discussion" programme, ditching its special reporting team. The change is part of cost-cutting measures across the BBC.
[79]
[80]
[81]
- 3 June ? The
BBC News at One
is extended to an hour-long programme.
[82]
See also
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]
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