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17 January – Breakfast Time, the UK's first national breakfast television service, is launched. News bulletins and summaries are broadcast every 30 minutes. 1 February – ITV launches its breakfast service TV-am and again news is a major part of the output. TV-am produces its bulletins in-house.
1976 in British television – The Multicoloured Swap Shop opens on the BBC, Punk group the Sex Pistols cause a storm of controversy and outrage in the UK by swearing well before the watershed on the regional Thames Television news programme Today, hosted by Bill Grundy but Grundy, who has goaded them into doing so, is temporarily sacked making ...
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 ...
They were initially free to receive, and Sky Movies was the first to move to a subscription early in 1990. Sky News was the UK's first dedicated news channel. The new service was the UK's first consumer satellite TV service, beating rival BSB, with which Sky would later merge to become BSkyB. Sky's satellite service grew to become a ...
Independent Television News (ITN) is a UK-based media production and ... History and Discovery, with television commissions including Climbing Great ... YouTube and ...
TV-am immediately axes TV Mayhem and replaces it with Cartoon World which as the name suggests, only shows cartoons. 1992. February – TV-am closes its in-house news service and contracts out news bulletins to Sky News. 25 September – Channel 4 airs the final Channel Four Daily. The news based breakfast television show was axed due to poor ...
The following is a list of most watched programmes, excluding sporting events and news coverage. The mid-1980s introduction of in-week repeat showings accounts for six of the top ten programmes. On this measure, the 1996 Christmas edition of Only Fools and Horses is, not including figures for repeats, the most-watched non-documentary programme ...
9 May – The BBC announces the launch of a rolling news channel for the UK as part of its plans for digital television. [1] 1997. 9 November – BBC News 24 launches at 5:30 pm. The channel is only available on cable although all viewers are able to sample the channel overnight as BBC News 24 is simulcast during the downtime hours of BBC One. 1998