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Today, colloquially known as the Today programme, is BBC Radio 4's long-running morning news and current-affairs radio programme.Broadcast on Monday to Saturday from 06:00 to 09:00 (starting on Saturday at 07:00), it is produced by BBC News and is the highest-rated programme on Radio 4 and one of the BBC's most popular programmes across its radio networks. [1]
Radio 4 currently reaches over 10 million listeners, making it the UK's second most-popular radio station after BBC Radio 2. [5] BBC Radio 4 broadcasts news programmes such as Today, The World at One and PM heralded on air by the Greenwich Time Signal pips or the chimes of Big Ben. The pips are only accurate on FM, and LW; there is a delay on ...
BBC Radio services are broadcast on various FM and AM frequencies, DAB digital radio and live streaming on BBC Sounds, which is available worldwide. They are also available on digital television in the UK, and archived programmes are available for 30 days or more after broadcast on BBC Sounds; many shows are available as podcasts.
The programme began on 9 October 1945 at 22.45. [1] It is the only programme that the BBC is required to make under its charter. In 1978 the public were allowed to hear MPs in parliament. In 1998 Yesterday in Parliament stopped being broadcast on FM. Instead it was broadcast only on long wave, opting-out from The Today programme.
While BBC Radio London, albeit with some further minor interruptions, continues to take the show, the rest of the network switches to BBC Radio 5 Live. [4] 4 January Ian Shepherd joins Central Radio to present weekend breakfast. [5] Former Key 103 presenter Jonathan Miles joins Happy Radio UK to present a weekly show on Saturday evenings. [6]
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 by BBC News for BBC Radio 4, as well as solely for BBC Sounds. The BBC has over 5,500 journalists [1] based both in the United Kingdom and abroad.
It was announced on 9 July 2015 that, beginning that autumn, Robinson would become a presenter on the early morning BBC Radio 4 programme Today, taking over from James Naughtie. [25] On 5 February 2019, Robinson co-hosted the live final of BBC Two's Icons: The Greatest Person of the 20th Century alongside Claudia Winkleman. [26]
He is a former BBC North America Editor and the main co-presenter of BBC One's Breakfast News programme. Since August 2009, he has co-presented the Today programme on BBC Radio 4, [3] and also regularly writes for the Radio Times. Since 2022 he has been a co-presenter of the "Americast" podcast.