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The BBC News at One achieved an average reach of 2.7 million viewers per bulletin in 2007, making it the most watched programme on UK daytime television. [1] During the COVID-19 pandemic , audiences reached 4.2 million viewers in 2020.
This is the UK's first afternoon-long football scores service. 5 September – ITV resurrects On the Ball, a lunchtime preview of the day's football fixtures. [217] ITV also resurrects The Big Match as the title for its football coverage. 10 September – MUTV launches. [218]
ITN had provided a short lunchtime news summary to start the ITV schedules on a Saturday since 1959, with an afternoon news summary on a Sunday starting in the mid-1960s, however it was the lifting of the restrictions on 16 October 1972 which helped ITN to launch a codified, more solid weekday lunchtime news programme as part of a raft of new ...
1 October – The UK's first Sunday politics programme Weekend World is broadcast on ITV. 16 October – Following a law change which removed all restrictions on broadcasting hours, ITV is able to launch an afternoon service. As part of the new service ITV's first lunchtime news programme, First Report, is shown. 1973. No events. 1974
On the Ball is an English ITV Saturday lunchtime television show about football, which ran as part of World of Sport from 1968 until the mid 1980s, and as a stand-alone show from 1998 to 2004. There was another ITV television show called On the Ball which was a game show hosted by Nick Weir in 1997, shown only in the Granada region.
Until October 2007, the programme ran for two hours, and aired between 12 pm–2 pm, under the name of Lunchtime Live. [4] Thereafter the programme, known as Afternoon Live [5] ran for 4 hours (1 pm–5 pm) until the launch of The Live Desk in September 2008. From October 2016, the programme was moved to run from 3 pm–6:30 pm, as part of a ...
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Wayne also composed a new theme tune for the opening and closing credits to the Results Service during its period as a standalone programme between 1985 and 1992. Previously a simple, ten-second musical and visual sting had been used to introduce the Results Service during the World of Sport programme itself.