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22 November – BBC TV interrupts regular programming to report the assassination of John F. Kennedy. 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 ...
Tonight returns to BBC1 after ten years off air. The new programme airs as a late evening news and analysis programme. [8] BBC2's late evening news bulletin is renamed Newsnight. 1976. 6 September – News at One replaces First Report and the teatime news bulletin programme is extended by five minutes and renamed News at 5.45.
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.
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.
17 April – Brothers in Law makes its debut on BBC TV. 14 June – BBC TV airs the first episode of the sitcom Steptoe and Son, written by Galton and Simpson. 24 November – The first episode of the influential satire show That Was the Week That Was airs on BBC TV. [27] 1963. 13 January – BBC TV airs the play The Madhouse on Castle Street ...
late January – The BBC and ITV broadcast extensive live coverage of the Gulf War, both in terms of extended news bulletins and special programmes. All-night coverage is broadcast on both channels during the early stages of the war. ITV broadcasts an all-night news programme and BBC1 broadcasts Pages from Ceefax to keep viewers up to date ...
April – A weekend 7am Ceefax broadcast begins on BBC1 and is formally mentioned in TV listings. [31] This continues until later in the year when programmes at 7am start being introduced. 1994. February – Level 2 teletext graphics are used for the first time. Their introduction coincides with a major change to the in-vision service which ...
2013 in British television – BBC Two launches in high-definition for the first time 2 + 1 ⁄ 2 years after BBC One did, Panorama becomes the first ongoing British TV programme to reach and celebrate its 60th anniversary since BBC Wimbledon in 1987 The Boat Race in 1998 and BBC Cricket in 1999, More4 also launches in HD for the first time ...