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In 2019, it was reported in an Ofcom report that the BBC spent £136m on news during the period April 2018 to March 2019.7 BBC News’ domestic, global and online news divisions are housed within the largest live newsroom in Europe, in Broadcasting House in central London. Through BBC English Regions, the BBC also has regional centres across England and national news centres in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales. All nations and English regions produce their own local news programmes and other current affairs and sport programmes.
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This period corresponded with when the Nine O’Clock News got its next makeover, and would use a CSO background of the newsroom from that very same camera each weekday evening. The World at One, a lunchtime news programme, began on 4 October 1965 on the then Home Service, and the year before News Review had started on television. News Review was a summary of the week’s news, first broadcast on Sunday, 26 April 196427 on BBC 2 and harking back to the weekly Newsreel Review of the Week, produced from 1951, to open programming on Sunday evenings–the difference being that this incarnation had subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing. As this was the decade before electronic caption generation, each superimposition (“super”) had to be produced on paper or card, synchronised manually to studio and news footage, committed to tape during the afternoon, and broadcast early evening. The programme ran until the 1980s28 – by then using electronic captions, known as Anchor – to be superseded by Ceefax subtitling (a similar Teletext format), and the signing of such programmes as See Hear (from 1981).
Lawyer for the creditors, Ryan Perkins, argued UK steel-making would be better served if the company’s assets were sold off with assistance from independent special managers acting on behalf of the government after it is wound up, rather than allowing administrators appointed by Mr Gupta to conduct the process. Mark Thompson, former Director-General of the BBC, admitted the organisation has been biased “towards flexible budgets the left” in the past. Prominent BBC appointments are constantly assessed by the British media and political establishment for signs of political bias. The appointment of Greg Dyke as Director-General was highlighted by press sources because Dyke was a Labour Party member and former activist, as well as a friend of Tony Blair. Also in the mid-1970s, the late night news on BBC2 was briefly renamed Newsnight,35 but this was not to last, or be the same programme as we know today – that would be launched in 1980 – and it soon reverted to being just a news summary with the early evening BBC2 news expanded to become Newsday.
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The BBC is a quasi-autonomous corporation authorised by royal charter, making it operationally independent of the government. The court decision comes after the government took over day to day running of British Steel’s Scunthorpe plant in April to prevent its Chinese owners from closing its steel furnaces. Speaking from outside the Sheffield site, mayor of South Yorkshire Oliver Coppard said it was “good news” the government had stepped in to take control and end the uncertainty for workers. A spokesperson for the government said that it remains “committed to a bright and sustainable future” for steelmaking in the UK. Liberty Steel Group’s finances were upended when its main lender, Greensill Capital, collapsed owing billions to investors including UBS and Citibank.
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Studio N9 was later refitted to match the new branding, and was used for the BBC’s UK local elections and European elections coverage in early June 2009. By the end of the decade, the practice of shooting on film for inserts in news broadcasts was declining, with the introduction of ENG technology into the UK. The equipment would gradually become less cumbersome – the BBC’s first attempts had been using a Philips colour camera with backpack base station and separate portable Sony U-matic recorder in the latter half of the decade. Here is the first general news bulletin, copyright by Reuters, Press Association, Exchange Telegraph and Central News.
- The relaunch also brought all bulletins into the same style of set with only small changes in colouring, titles, and music to differentiate each.
- The newsreader would present to camera while sitting on the edge of a desk; behind him staff would be seen working busily at their desks.
- In 1999, the biggest relaunch occurred, with BBC One bulletins, BBC World, BBC News 24, and BBC News Online all adopting a common style.
- Newsnight, the news and current affairs programme, was due to go on air on 23 January 1980, although trade union disagreements meant that its launch from Lime Grove was postponed by a week.38 On 27 August 1981 Moira Stuart became the first African Caribbean female newsreader to appear on British television.
The BBC Director of News, Richard Sambrook, the report said, had accepted Gilligan’s word that his story was accurate in spite of his notes being incomplete. Davies had then told the BBC Board of Governors that he was happy with the story and told the Prime Minister that a satisfactory internal inquiry had taken place. The Board of Governors, under the chairman’s, Gavyn Davies, guidance, accepted that further investigation of the Government’s complaints were unnecessary. In spite of a ban ordered by the Indian High court,127 the BBC still aired the documentary “India’s Daughter” outside India. Mr Williamson said the Rotherham plant had not produced steel since July 2024, with most of the workers on a form of furlough, being paid 85% of their wages. But he told the BBC the government’s next job is to ensure the steelworks now have “the brightest possible future”.
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This coincided with a new structure to BBC World News bulletins, editors favouring a section devoted to analysing the news stories reported on. The retirement in 2009 of Peter Sissons57 and departure of Michael Buerk from the Ten O’Clock News58 led to changes in the BBC One bulletin presenting team on 20 January 2003. The Six O’Clock News became double headed with George Alagiah and Sophie Raworth after Huw Edwards and Fiona Bruce moved to present the Ten. A new set design featuring a projected fictional newsroom backdrop was introduced, followed on 16 February 2004 by new programme titles to match those of BBC News 24. However, much of the insert material was still in black and white, as initially only a part of the film coverage shot in and around London was on colour reversal film stock, and all regional and many international contributions were still in black and white. Colour facilities at Alexandra Palace were technically very limited for the next eighteen months, as it had only one RCA colour Quadruplex videotape machine and, eventually two Pye plumbicon colour telecines–although the news colour service started with just one.
- The government will now be responsible for the operational and financial risks of the company, which has produced next to no steel for over a year.
- Lawyer for the creditors, Ryan Perkins, argued UK steel-making would be better served if the company’s assets were sold off with assistance from independent special managers acting on behalf of the government after it is wound up, rather than allowing administrators appointed by Mr Gupta to conduct the process.
- The Six O’Clock News became double headed with George Alagiah and Sophie Raworth after Huw Edwards and Fiona Bruce moved to present the Ten.
- Three BBC News reports (Andrew Gilligan’s on Today, Gavin Hewitt’s on The Ten O’Clock News and another on Newsnight) quoted an anonymous source that stated the British government (particularly the Prime Minister’s office) had embellished the September Dossier with misleading exaggerations of Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction capabilities.
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In court, creditors highlighted how SSUK had not published financial statements since 2019 and its direct parent company, based in Singapore, was itself subject to insolvency proceedings. Mr Gupta’s plan to place SSUK in administration then immediately buy it out again would have allowed the company to largely shed those debts. The UK’s third-largest steelworks has been placed under government control, creating an uncertain future for nearly 1,500 workers in Rotherham and Sheffield.
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The move began in October 2012, and also included the BBC World Service, which moved from Bush House following the expiry of the BBC’s lease. Afternoon television news bulletins during the mid to late 1970s were broadcast from the BBC newsroom itself, rather than one of the three news studios. The newsreader would present to camera while sitting on the edge of a desk; behind him staff would be seen working busily at their desks.
New technology, provided by Silicon Graphics, came into use in 1993 for a re-launch of the main BBC 1 bulletins, creating a virtual set which appeared to be much larger than it was physically. The relaunch also brought all bulletins into the same style of set with only small changes in colouring, titles, and music to differentiate each. A computer generated cut-glass sculpture of the BBC coat of arms was the centrepiece of the programme titles until the large scale corporate rebranding of news services in 1999. On Sunday 17 September 1967, The World This Weekend, a weekly news and current affairs programme, launched on what was then Home Service, but soon-to-be Radio 4. Newsnight, the news and current affairs programme, was due to go on air on 23 January 1980, although trade union disagreements meant that its launch from Lime Grove was postponed by a week.38 On 27 August 1981 Moira Stuart became the first African Caribbean female newsreader to appear on British television. Robert Dougall presented the first week from studio N132 – described by The Guardian33 as “a sort of polystyrene padded cell”34—the bulletin having been moved from the earlier time of 20.50 as a response to the ratings achieved by ITN’s News at Ten, introduced three years earlier on the rival ITV.
