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v. t. e. Television news in the United States has evolved over many years. It has gone from a simple 10- to 15-minute format in the evenings, to a variety of programs and channels. Today, viewers can watch local, regional and national news programming, in many different ways, any time of the day.
With a budget in excess of two million dollars for just six half hours, Timeline was one of PBS's most expensive productions for that time. Funding was provided by Texas-based Meadows Foundation, PBS, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, Maryland Public Television, Holmes Associates in London (UK), Televisión Española and Turkish Radio & Television.
March – The first in-vision Ceefax transmissions are broadcast. 1981. 29 July – The Wedding of Charles, Prince of Wales and Lady Diana Spencer is produced by BBC Television & Radio with an audience of 750 million viewers and listeners in over 60 countries. 4 September – The final edition of Midday News is broadcast.
31 October – For the first time, Newsnight is given a fixed starting time, of 10.30 pm. The final edition of Weekend World is broadcast on ITV. 1989. 5 February – Sky Television launches at 6 pm and with it the launch of the UK's first rolling news channel Sky News.
8:49:34: The first network television and radio reports of an explosion or incident at the World Trade Center. CNN breaks into a Ditech commercial at 8:49. The CNN screen subtitle first reads "WORLD TRADE CENTER DISASTER". Carol Lin, the first TV network anchor to break the news of the attacks, says: [36] This just in.
Television is one of the major mass media outlets in the United States. In 2011, 96.7% of households owned television sets; [1] about 114,200,000 American households owned at least one television set each in August 2013. [2] Most households have more than one set. The percentage of households owning at least one television set peaked at 98.4% ...
9 November – BBC News 24, the corporation's UK television news service, launches at 17.30, and is shown on BBC One through the night during closedown. December – BBC Online is officially launched. 1998. 25 January – Sunday Grandstand becomes a year-round programme. Previously it had only broadcast between May and September. [58]
bbc.com (global) 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 ...