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International football finals are a particular problem as research has shown that 71% of people in the UK will watch them at home instead of public venues such as pubs. [4] The Grid predicted a pickup of around 3000 MW, equivalent to 1.2 million kettles being turned on at once, if England made the later stages of the 2010 FIFA World Cup .
The majority of special events attracting large audiences are often carried on more than one channel. The most watched special event programme of all time on a single channel in the UK is the 1973 wedding ceremony of Princess Anne, shown only on BBC One.
2025 in British television – The Simpsons after over 20 years on Channel 4 moves to E4, Gary Lineker is announced to present his last regular edition of Match of the Day, he will continue to host FA Cup & the 2026 FIFA World Cup for the BBC in the 2025–26 season before leaving the BBC, Eurosport will close in the UK and Ireland after 36 ...
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. 17 September – The original incarnation of Newsnight is broadcast for the final time. It is replaced three days later with a shorter bulletin called Late Night News on 2. 1977. No events. 1978
Christa Ackroyd – main presenter on Look North from 2001 until 2013. She had previously been a presenter on Yorkshire Television's Calendar during the 1990s.; Kate Adie – chief news correspondent for BBC News during which time she became well known for reporting from war zones around the world – her first major assignment was reporting on the Iranian embassy siege in London in 1980.
As the oldest commercial television network in the UK, ITV has employed many journalists and newsreaders to present its news programmes as well as to provide news reports and interviews during its history. Since the ITV network began, Independent Television News Limited (ITN) has held the contract to produce national and international news for ...
Findmypast began sponsoring the UKTV channel Yesterday in July 2010, and another TV series named Find My Past, funded by findmypast.co.uk, was broadcast from October 2011. [35] UKTV stated that it was the first example of a product placement and advertiser funded programming deal for a factual TV series in the country. [ 36 ]
14 July – Watchdog launches as a stand-alone programme on BBC1, [25] having previously been a segment within the teatime news magazine programmes Nationwide and Sixty Minutes. 27 July – BBC2 airs "Blues Night", an Arena special dedicated to the Blues and featuring artists from the genre, including Sonny Boy Williamson , B. B. King , Blind ...