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15 February – The COW ident is seen for the final time on BBC1, after six years in use. 16 February – BBC1 and BBC2 receive new idents, both generated from laserdisc and featuring the BBC corporate logo introduced in 1986. BBC1's new ident is a numeral '1' encased in a globe.
7 January – A two-minute mid-afternoon regional news summary is broadcast on BBC1 for the first time. It is transmitted immediately before the start of the afternoon's children's programmes. 23 September – The BBC's Teletext service Ceefax goes live. 1975. 1 September – Tonight returns to BBC1 after ten years off air. The new programme ...
Only channels where an episode first aired are listed (with the exception of episodes on non-BBC Three programmes which debuted online; for these) the linear channel and the transmission date on that channel are used. Children's television programmes can be found at List of BBC children's television programmes.
7 January – A two-minute mid-afternoon regional news summary is broadcast on BBC1 for the first time. 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 ...
The data is taken from two sources: information from BBC iPlayer and BBC Sounds pages (referred to as “Programme Information Platform or PIP's”) and data from BBC Genome. There are millions of listings on the BBC's Programme Index. Some will link through to programmes you can watch and listen but most of the listings remain text-only.
24 June – Test match Cricket airs for the first time on the BBC Television Service, with coverage of the second test of The Ashes series between England and Australia, live from Lord's Cricket Ground. 1939. 4 March – The BBC Television Service airs one of the first plays to be written especially for television, Condemned To Be Shot by R. E ...
27 October – Instead of showing pages from the BBC's digital text service during BBC Two's overnight downtime, the channel instead launches This is BBC Two which is a loop of forthcoming BBC Two programmes. 21 December – The final edition of ITV's early morning news programme ITV News at 5:30 is broadcast. Consequently, apart from special ...
21 December – Children's Programmes air on BBC One for the last time. At the end of 2012 the BBC loses the rights to show horse racing. This brings to an end a relationship between the BBC and televised horse racing which dates back to the 1950s. 2013. 4 January – Children's Programmes air on BBC Two for the last time.