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It is transmitted immediately before the start of the afternoon's children's programmes. 23 September – Teletext service Ceefax goes live. 1975. 1 September Tonight returns to BBC1 after thirteen years off air. The new programme airs as a late evening news and analysis programme. [10]
9 February – Launch of BBC Wales TV later to become known as BBC One Wales. 20 April – Due to the launch of BBC2 the existing BBC TV channel is renamed BBC1. 28 September – In the Midlands, BBC1 airs the first edition of its local news programme, Midlands Today. [1] 28 October – The Wednesday Play premieres. [2]
BBC Newsroom Live: Two & News Channel 21 March 2016 – 2020 GMT: Two & World News 1 February 2010 – 1 November 2019 The Context: Four, News Channel & World News 23 January 2017 – present Titled as: 100 Days until May 2017, 100 Days + until July 2017 and Beyond 100 Days until March 2020. Afternoon Live: News Channel 9 October 2017 The Briefing
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.
4 January – BBC1 begins broadcasting on weekdays at 6am. A start of day Ceefax broadcast is retained although it now runs for 15 minutes rather than 30. Channel 4 starts broadcasting 4-Tel on View during its overnight closedowns. [29] [30] April – A weekend 7am Ceefax broadcast begins on BBC1 and is formally mentioned in TV listings. [31]
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 ...
The block was dropped when BBC Three returned as a linear TV channel in early 2022, but BBC One continues to broadcast some BBC Three programmes. As the weekly popular music chart programme Top of the Pops was dropped in 2006 (except for the Christmas Day edition), BBC One broadcast 49 hours of music and arts programming in 2010. [95]
24 Hours or Twenty-Four Hours is a long-running, late-evening, weekdaily news magazine programme that aired on BBC1. It focused on analysis and criticism of current affairs, and featured in-depth short documentary films that set the style for current-affairs magazine programmes. 24 Hours launched on 4 October 1965 and focused on investigative ...