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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]
The episode, in which Angie tells Den she has six months to live after he tells her he wants a divorce, was an experiment as the two-hander format had not been tried in a British soap before, but received well by viewers and critics. 24 October Ahead of the launch of the BBC's new daytime service, News After Noon is broadcast for the final time.
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.
9 November – BBC News 24 launches and from that day, instead of closing down, BBC One simulcasts the new news channel throughout the night. 1998. 14 January – ITV Nightscreen launches as an overnight filler on ITV. Broadcast as teletext pages, the service features news and information about ITV and its programmes. [24]
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
7 January – Afternoon Pages from Ceefax broadcasts appear on BBC1 between the end of lunchtime programmes and the start of children's programmes, and on BBC2 Ceefax pages are shown continuously between 9am and 5:25pm apart from when Daytime on Two is in season and when sporting events are being shown.
4 March – The BBC and Flextech agree on a deal to provide several BBC-branded channels – BBC Showcase, for entertainment; BBC Horizon, for documentaries; BBC Style, for lifestyle; BBC Learning, for schools, and BBC Arena, for the arts – plus three other channels: BBC Catch-Up, for repeats of popular programmes within days of their original transmission, a dedicated BBC Sport channel and ...