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BBC News is the largest broadcast news gathering operation in the world, [182] providing services to BBC domestic radio as well as television networks such as the BBC News, BBC Parliament and BBC News International. In addition to this, news stories are available on the BBC Red Button service and BBC News Online.
The first news bulletin is read by Arthur Burrows, the company's founding Director of Programmes. 15 November: 5IT in Birmingham and 2ZY in Manchester begin broadcasting. All three BBC stations broadcast the General Election results. 14 December: John C. W. Reith is hired as the company's managing director.
The Akron Press joined in 1925 with Akron Times to be The Akron Times-Press.; The Barberton Herald (1923-2022) [2]; Celina Democrat (1895–1921) [3]; The Cedarville Herald (from July 1890 to December 1954) [4]
BBC News is an operational business division [2] of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs in the UK and around the world. The department is the world's largest broadcast news organisation and generates about 120 hours of radio and television output each day, as well ...
[6] [22] In 1952 the BBC's news service was reorganised, and he returned as a newsreader, also doing some television work, [15] such as the 1953 BBC Proms. [23] In protest against the "decline in BBC speech", [13] he retired on 11 April 1969 after reading the Nine O'Clock News on BBC Radio 4. [24] In May 1969 Lidell appeared on Desert Island Discs.
James Heddle Cox (14 November 1941 – 24 September 2024) was a British journalist and broadcaster who had a wide-ranging career in newspapers and in broadcasting in Scotland.
He succeeded Ronnie Waldman as Managing Director of the news agency Visnews in 1977. He was director-general of the BBC from 1 April 1969 to 30 September 1977. He was the first grammar school-educated director-general. [2]
Christa Ackroyd – main presenter on Look North from 2001 until 2013. She had previously been a presenter on Yorkshire Television's Calendar during the 1990s.; Kate Adie – chief news correspondent for BBC News during which time she became well known for reporting from war zones around the world – her first major assignment was reporting on the Iranian embassy siege in London in 1980.