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The Six O'Clock News, as the bulletin was originally titled, was part of the second revamp of BBC1's early evening news and current affairs lineup in as many years.In October 1983, the BBC had replaced the long-running 5:40 pm BBC Evening News, as well as current affairs and regional news programme Nationwide, with Sixty Minutes, an attempt to integrate regional and national news and current ...
BBC News provides television journalism to BBC network bulletins (on BBC One and BBC Two) and programmes as well as the BBC News Channel available around the world and in the United Kingdom. BBC News runs BBC Radio 5 Live and BBC World Service as part of its rolling news coverage, journalists and presenters also contribute to podcasts produced ...
Six O'Clock News may refer to: News at Six (Hong Kong TV programme) (1957–2016), a defunct evening news bulletin on Asia Television in Hong Kong; RTÉ News: Six One (1962–present), an Irish evening news bulletin on RTÉ One; BBC News at Six (1984–present), formerly BBC Six O'Clock News, the main evening newscast on BBC One in the United ...
3 September – BBC1's teatime news hour is relaunched and now runs from 6pm until 7pm. A new 30-minute long news programme the Six O'Clock News is launched and this is followed by a longer regional news magazine which is expanded to 25 minutes.
BBC News 24 and BBC World introduced a new style of presentation in December 2003, that was slightly altered on 5 July 2004 to mark 50 years of BBC Television News. [60] The individual positions of editor of the One and Six O'Clock News were replaced by a new daytime position in November 2005. Kevin Bakhurst became the first Controller of BBC ...
Sophie Jane Raworth (/ ˈ r eɪ w ɜːr θ /; born 15 May 1968) [1] [2] is an English journalist, newsreader and broadcaster working for the BBC.She is a senior newsreader and is one of the main presenters of BBC News (mainly BBC News at Six and BBC News at Ten).
He and Sue Lawley were the first readers of the BBC Six O'Clock News when the programme was launched on 3 September 1984 (replacing the early-evening news magazine Sixty Minutes). In 1988, the Six O'Clock News studio was invaded during a live broadcast by a group of women protesting against the Section 28 law (which sought to prevent councils ...
He sometimes reads and presents the Six O'Clock News on BBC Radio 4. In 2021, Chris Aldridge stepped down from his role as senior announcer but remains on Radio 4 as a freelance announcer and newsreader. [citation needed] On 8 September 2022, Aldridge announced the death of Queen Elizabeth II on BBC Radio.