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BBC West launched a regional television service from Bristol in September 1957. Initially broadcast from the Wenvoe transmitter on the outskirts of Cardiff, the geographical nature of the Wenvoe signal meant the first regional news bulletins were broadcast to both Wales and the West of England, sharing a ten-minute timeslot with News from Wales.
BBC Points West is the BBC's regional TV news programme for the West of England, covering Bristol, Somerset, the majority of Gloucestershire and Wiltshire (excluding the city of Salisbury), and northern parts of Dorset.
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 ...
BBC One West: BBC One West Midlands: BBC One Yorkshire & Lincolnshire: BBC One Yorkshire: List of UKTV channels. UKTV is a multichannel broadcaster owned by BBC ...
BBC English Regions is the division of the BBC responsible for local and regional television, radio, web, and teletext services in England, the Isle of Man, and the Channel Islands. It is one of the BBC's four "nations" – the others being BBC Cymru Wales, BBC Northern Ireland, and BBC Scotland. [2] The division is made up of 12 regions.
BBC East: BBC Look East: Norwich: BBC North West: BBC North West Tonight: Manchester: BBC North East and Cumbria: BBC Look North (North East and Cumbria) Newcastle Upon Tyne: BBC South East: BBC South East Today: Royal Tunbridge Wells: BBC South: BBC South Today: Southampton: BBC South West: BBC Spotlight: Plymouth: BBC West Midlands: BBC ...
Vacher joined the BBC in 1981 working for Radio Bristol before becoming a freelance reporter and newsreader for Points West a year later. [1] He joined the main presenting team in 1983 and holds the record as the programme's longest serving main presenter.
The BBC World Service began on 19 December 1932 as the BBC Empire Service, broadcasting on shortwave [24] and aimed principally at English speakers across the British Empire. In his first Christmas Message (1932), King George V characterised the service as intended for "men and women, so cut off by the snow, the desert, or the sea, that only ...