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14 February – Following the launch of Breakfast Time, the Open University (OU) programmes previously shown on BBC1 on weekday mornings move to BBC2, resulting in the weekday early morning OU transmission on BBC2 being extended from 1 hour 15 minutes to 2 hours 5 minutes. BBC1 continues to broadcast early morning OU transmissions at the ...
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 ...
15 February – The COW ident is seen for the final time on BBC1, after six years in use. 16 February – BBC1 and BBC2 receive new idents, both generated from laserdisc and featuring the BBC corporate logo introduced in 1986. BBC1's new ident is a numeral '1' encased in a globe.
BBC One is a British free-to-air public broadcast television channel owned and operated by the BBC.It is the corporation's oldest and flagship channel, and is known for broadcasting mainstream programming, which includes BBC News television bulletins, primetime drama and entertainment, and live BBC Sport events.
Only channels where an episode first aired are listed (with the exception of episodes on non-BBC Three programmes which debuted online; for these) the linear channel and the transmission date on that channel are used. Children's television programmes can be found at List of BBC children's television programmes.
Consequently, the BBC's weekday breakfast programmes start half an hour earlier, at 6 am. 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. 9 April – LWT launches a new Sunday morning political programme for ITV – Jonathan Dimbleby.
It is the first BBC programme filmed in colour, although it can only be transmitted in black and white. 24 April – The Sky at Night airs for the first time, presented by Patrick Moore. He would present the programme until his death in December 2012. 24 September – The BBC begins broadcasting programmes for schools.
12 June – On the morning after the 1987 United Kingdom general election, BBC2 broadcasts a Ceefax Results Service, running from 7:20am until the start of Daytime on Two at 10:04am. [17] 14 September – ITV Schools programmes transfer to Channel 4 resulting in an expansion of the channel's weekday broadcasting hours. Consequently, teletext ...