BBC News Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ==History== {{Further|Timeline of BBC Television News}} {{Further|Timeline of BBC Radio News}} ===Early years=== {{rquote|right|This is London calling – 2LO calling. Here is the first general news bulletin, copyright by [[Reuters]], [[Press Association]], [[Extel|Exchange Telegraph]] and [[Central News Agency (London)|Central News]].|BBC news programme opening during the 1920s{{r|crisell1997}}}} The [[British Broadcasting Company]] broadcast its first radio bulletin from radio station [[2LO]] on 14 November 1922.<ref>{{Cite book|last1=Burke|first1=Professor of Cultural History and Fellow of Emmanuel College Peter|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OoxsKnfVzLwC&q=The+British+Broadcasting+Company+broadcast+its+first+radio+bulletin+from+radio+station+2LO+on+14+November+1922&pg=PA132|title=A Social History of the Media: From Gutenberg to the Internet|last2=Briggs|first2=Asa|last3=Burke|first3=Peter|date=29 July 2005|publisher=Polity|isbn=978-0-7456-3511-8|language=en|access-date=21 October 2020|archive-date=24 November 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231124132653/https://books.google.com/books?id=OoxsKnfVzLwC&q=The+British+Broadcasting+Company+broadcast+its+first+radio+bulletin+from+radio+station+2LO+on+14+November+1922&pg=PA132#v=snippet&q=The%20British%20Broadcasting%20Company%20broadcast%20its%20first%20radio%20bulletin%20from%20radio%20station%202LO%20on%2014%20November%201922&f=false|url-status=live}}</ref> Wishing to avoid competition, newspaper publishers persuaded the government to ban the BBC from broadcasting news before 7 p.m., and to force it to use [[news agency|wire service]] copy instead of reporting on its own.{{r|crisell1997}} The BBC gradually gained the right to edit the copy and, in 1934, created its own news operation.<ref name=":0" /> However, it could not broadcast news before 6 p.m. until [[World War II]].{{r|crisell1997}} In addition to news, Gaumont British and Movietone cinema [[newsreel]]s had been broadcast on the TV service since 1936, with the BBC producing its own equivalent ''[[Television Newsreel]]'' programme from January 1948.<ref>{{Cite web|title=The Development of Communication Between the Government, the Media and the People in Britain, 1945-51|url=http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/1759/1/U192411.pdf|last=Moore|first=Martin|date=October 2004|website=The London School of Economics and Political Science|access-date=31 May 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200601040326/http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/1759/1/U192411.pdf|archive-date=1 June 2020|url-status=live}}</ref> A weekly ''Children's Newsreel'' was inaugurated on 23 April 1950, to around 350,000 receivers.<ref name=":0">{{cite web|url=http://www.whirligig-tv.co.uk/tv/history/history.htm|title=1950s British TV Milestones|access-date=3 April 2007| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20070427124228/http://www.whirligig-tv.co.uk/tv/history/history.htm| archive-date= 27 April 2007 |url-status = live}}</ref> The network began [[simulcasting]] its radio news on television in 1946, with a still picture of [[Big Ben]].<ref name="crisell1997">{{cite book | title=An Introductory History of British Broadcasting | url=https://archive.org/details/introductoryhist00cris | url-access=limited | publisher=Routledge | author=Crisell, Andrew | year=1997 | pages=[https://archive.org/details/introductoryhist00cris/page/n31 15], 26–27, 92 | isbn=0-415-12802-1}}</ref> Televised bulletins began on 5 July 1954, broadcast from leased studios within [[Alexandra Palace]] in London.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.alexandrapalace.com/history.html|title=Alexandra Palace – A History of the Palace|access-date=3 April 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070404014257/http://www.alexandrapalace.com/history.html|archive-date=4 April 2007|url-status = dead}}</ref>{{failed verification|date=July 2014}} The public's interest in television and live events was stimulated by [[Elizabeth II#Succession|Elizabeth II's]] [[Coronation of the British monarch#History|coronation]] in 1953. It is estimated that up to 27 million people<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tvhistory.btinternet.co.uk/html/landmark.html |title=British TV Landmark Dates |access-date=3 April 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070506033602/http://www.tvhistory.btinternet.co.uk/html/landmark.html |archive-date=6 May 2007 |url-status = dead}}</ref> viewed the programme in the UK, overtaking radio's audience of 12 million for the first time.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.terramedia.co.uk/Chronomedia/years/1953.htm |title=Chronomedia: 1953 |access-date=3 April 2007 |archive-date=25 May 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070525193855/http://www.terramedia.co.uk/Chronomedia/years/1953.htm |url-status=live }}</ref> Those live pictures were fed from 21 cameras in central London to [[Alexandra Palace television station|Alexandra Palace]] for transmission, and then on to other UK transmitters opened in time for the event.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.thevalvepage.com/tvyears/articals/coronation/arrangements/arrangements.htm |title=1950 |access-date=3 April 2007 |archive-date=27 September 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927204504/http://www.thevalvepage.com/tvyears/articals/coronation/arrangements/arrangements.htm |url-status=live }}</ref> That year, there were [[Television licensing in the United Kingdom (historical)#Number of licences issued|around two million TV Licences held in the UK]], rising to over three million the following year, and four and a half million by 1955.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Owens|first=Edward|title=The Family Firm: monarchy, mass media and the British public, 1932-53|chapter='This time I was THERE taking part'|date=2019|pages=331–372|publisher=University of London Press|jstor=j.ctvkjb3sr.12|isbn=978-1-909646-94-0}}</ref> ===1950s=== Television news, although physically separate from its radio counterpart, was still firmly under radio news' control in the 1950s. Correspondents provided reports for both outlets, and the first televised bulletin, shown on 5 July 1954 on the then [[BBC One|BBC television service]] and presented by [[Richard Baker (broadcaster)|Richard Baker]], involved his providing narration off-screen while stills were shown.<ref>{{Cite news|title=The BBC performs painful internal surgery|newspaper=The Economist|url=https://www.economist.com/britain/2020/01/30/the-bbc-performs-painful-internal-surgery|access-date=31 May 2020|issn=0013-0613|archive-date=21 May 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200521142154/https://www.economist.com/britain/2020/01/30/the-bbc-performs-painful-internal-surgery|url-status=live}}</ref> This was then followed by the customary ''Television Newsreel'' with a recorded commentary by [[John Snagge]] (and on other occasions by [[Andrew Timothy]]).{{Citation needed|date=May 2020}} On-screen newsreaders were introduced a year later in 1955{{snd}} [[Kenneth Kendall]] (the first to appear in vision), [[Robert Dougall]], and [[Richard Baker (broadcaster)|Richard Baker]]—three weeks before [[ITN]]'s launch on 21 September 1955.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Obituary: Kenneth Kendall, newsreader and presenter|url=https://www.scotsman.com/news/obituaries/obituary-kenneth-kendall-newsreader-and-presenter-1596900|website=www.scotsman.com|date=17 December 2012|language=en|access-date=31 May 2020|archive-date=1 October 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201001204817/https://www.scotsman.com/news/obituaries/obituary-kenneth-kendall-newsreader-and-presenter-1596900|url-status=live}}</ref> Mainstream television production had started to move out of Alexandra Palace in 1950<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.terramedia.co.uk/Chronomedia/years/1950.htm|title=Chronomedia: 1950|access-date=8 October 2007| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20071016210036/http://terramedia.co.uk/Chronomedia/years/1950.htm| archive-date= 16 October 2007 |url-status = live}}</ref> to larger premises{{snd}} mainly at [[Lime Grove Studios]] in [[Shepherd's Bush]], west London{{snd}} taking Current Affairs (then known as Talks Department) with it. It was from here that the first ''[[Panorama (TV series)|Panorama]]'', a new documentary programme, was transmitted on 11 November 1953, with [[Richard Dimbleby]] becoming anchor in 1955.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/hi/pop_ups/08/programmes_past_faces_of_panorama/html/1.stm|title=In pictures: Past Faces of Panorama|access-date=9 April 2010|work=BBC News|archive-date=20 August 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170820055940/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/hi/pop_ups/08/programmes_past_faces_of_panorama/html/1.stm|url-status=live}}</ref> In 1958, [[Hugh Carleton Greene]] became head of News and Current Affairs.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Chignell|first=Hugh|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Kviak52wjXsC&q=In+1958,+Hugh+Carleton+Greene+became+head+of+News+and+Current+Affairs&pg=PA78|title=Public Issue Radio: Talks, News and Current Affairs in the Twentieth Century|date=2 September 2011|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan|isbn=978-0-230-24739-0|language=en}}{{Dead link|date=November 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> ===1960s=== On 1 January 1960, Greene became [[Director general|Director-General]].<ref>{{Cite book|last=Tight|first=Malcolm|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DRPPJqqHTQoC&q=On+1+January+1960,+Greene+became+Director-General+and+brought+about+big+changes+at+BBC+Television+and+BBC+Television+News&pg=PA46|title=Education for Adults|date=2012|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-0-415-68517-7|language=en|access-date=21 October 2020|archive-date=24 November 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231124132647/https://books.google.com/books?id=DRPPJqqHTQoC&q=On+1+January+1960,+Greene+became+Director-General+and+brought+about+big+changes+at+BBC+Television+and+BBC+Television+News&pg=PA46#v=onepage&q=On%201%20January%201960%2C%20Greene%20became%20Director-General%20and%20brought%20about%20big%20changes%20at%20BBC%20Television%20and%20BBC%20Television%20News&f=false|url-status=live}}</ref> Greene made changes that were aimed at making BBC reporting more similar to its competitor ITN, which had been highly rated by study groups held by Greene.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Chignell|first=Hugh|title=Public Issue Radio: Talks, News and Current Affairs in the Twentieth Century|chapter=The Reinvention of Radio — The 1960s|date=2011|pages=80–100|editor-last=Chignell|editor-first=Hugh|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan UK|language=en|doi=10.1057/9780230346451_5|isbn=978-0-230-34645-1}}</ref> A newsroom was created at Alexandra Palace, television reporters were recruited and given the opportunity to write and voice their own scripts–without having to cover stories for radio too.{{Citation needed|date=May 2020}} On 20 June 1960, [[Nan Winton]], the first female BBC network newsreader, appeared in vision.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Nan Winton, the first woman to read the national news on BBC television|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/nan-winton-death-age-bbc-newsreader-female-age-cause-dead-obituary-a8929606.html|date=30 May 2019|website=The Independent|language=en|access-date=31 May 2020|archive-date=30 March 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200330185500/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/nan-winton-death-age-bbc-newsreader-female-age-cause-dead-obituary-a8929606.html|url-status=live}}</ref> 19 September 1960 saw the start of the radio news and current affairs programme ''The Ten O'clock News''.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Chignell|first=Hugh|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Kviak52wjXsC&q=bbc+news+the+start+of+the+radio+news+and+current+affairs+programme+The+Ten+O'clock+News&pg=PA83|title=Public Issue Radio: Talks, News and Current Affairs in the Twentieth Century|date=2 September 2011|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan|isbn=978-0-230-24739-0|language=en}}{{Dead link|date=November 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> [[BBC Two|BBC2]] started transmission on 20 April 1964 and began broadcasting a new show, ''[[Newsroom (BBC programme)|Newsroom]]''.<ref>{{Cite web|title=House of Lords - Communications - Minutes of Evidence|url=https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld200708/ldselect/ldcomuni/122/8040202.htm|website=publications.parliament.uk|access-date=31 May 2020|archive-date=26 July 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200726160952/https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld200708/ldselect/ldcomuni/122/8040202.htm|url-status=live}}</ref> ''[[The World at One]]'', a lunchtime news programme, began on 4 October 1965 on the then Home Service, and the year before ''News Review'' had started on television. ''News Review'' was a summary of the week's news, first broadcast on Sunday, 26 April 1964<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.terramedia.co.uk/Chronomedia/years/1964.htm|title=Chronomedia: 1964|access-date=3 April 2007| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20070303014530/http://www.terramedia.co.uk/Chronomedia/years/1964.htm| archive-date= 3 March 2007 |url-status = live}}</ref> on BBC 2 and harking back to the weekly ''Newsreel Review of the Week'', produced from 1951, to open programming on Sunday evenings–the difference being that this incarnation had subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing. As this was the decade before electronic caption generation, each superimposition ("super") had to be produced on paper or card, synchronised manually to studio and news [[footage]], committed to tape during the afternoon, and broadcast early evening. Thus Sundays were no longer a quiet day for news at [[Alexandra Palace]]. The programme ran until the 1980s<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www2.tv-ark.org.uk/bbcnews/bbcnationalnewsother.html |title=TV Ark: BBC News |access-date=16 August 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070516061628/http://www2.tv-ark.org.uk/bbcnews/bbcnationalnewsother.html |archive-date=16 May 2007 |url-status = dead}}</ref>{{snd}} by then using electronic captions, known as Anchor{{snd}} to be superseded by [[Ceefax]] subtitling (a similar [[Teletext]] format), and the signing of such programmes as ''[[See Hear]]'' (from 1981). On Sunday 17 September 1967, ''[[The World This Weekend]]'', a weekly news and current affairs programme, launched on what was then Home Service, but soon-to-be [[BBC Radio 4|Radio 4]]. Preparations for colour began in the autumn of 1967 and on Thursday 7 March 1968 ''Newsroom'' on BBC2 moved to an early evening slot, becoming the first UK news programme to be transmitted in colour<ref>[https://www.bbc.co.uk/heritage/more/pdfs/1960s.pdf History of the BBC – key dates page 5] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090424053328/http://www.bbc.co.uk/heritage/more/pdfs/1960s.pdf |date=24 April 2009 }} BBC Heritage 1960s.</ref>{{snd}} from Studio A at Alexandra Palace. ''News Review'' and ''Westminster'' (the latter a weekly review of [[Palace of Westminster|Parliamentary]] happenings) were "colourised" shortly after. However, much of the insert material was still in black and white, as initially only a part of the film coverage shot in and around London was on colour [[reversal film]] [[film stock|stock]], and all regional and many international contributions were still in black and white. Colour facilities at Alexandra Palace were technically very limited for the next eighteen months, as it had only one [[RCA]] colour [[Quadruplex videotape]] machine and, eventually two [[Pye Ltd.|Pye]] [[Diode gun Plumbicon#Plumbicon|plumbicon]] colour [[telecine]]s–although the news colour service started with just one. Black and white national bulletins on BBC 1 continued to originate from Studio B on weekdays, along with ''[[Town and Around]]'', the London regional "[[opt out]]" programme broadcast throughout the 1960s (and the BBC's first regional news programme for the South East), until it started to be replaced by ''[[Nationwide (TV programme)|Nationwide]]'' on Tuesday to Thursday from Lime Grove Studios early in September 1969. ''Town and Around'' was never to make the move to Television Centre{{snd}} instead it became ''London This Week'' which aired on Mondays and Fridays only, from the new TVC studios.<ref>''London This Week'' had started in early 1969 as a once per week "opt out" replacing the Friday edition of ''Town and Around'' {{cite web|url=http://www.tvradiobits.co.uk/|title=TV & Radio Bits: BBC South East: History|access-date=21 June 2007}}{{Dead link|date=September 2010|bot=H3llBot}}</ref> [[File:BBC TV Centre.jpg|thumb|right|Television News moved to [[BBC Television Centre]] in September 1969.]] The BBC moved production out of Alexandra Palace in 1969. BBC Television News resumed operations the next day with a lunchtime bulletin on BBC1{{snd}} in black and white{{snd}} from Television Centre, where it remained until March 2013.{{Citation needed|date=May 2020}} This move to a smaller studio with better technical facilities allowed ''Newsroom'' and ''News Review'' to replace [[back projection]] with [[colour-separation overlay]].{{Citation needed|date=May 2020}} During the 1960s, [[Communications satellite|satellite communication]] had become possible;<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tvhistory.btinternet.co.uk/html/early_satellite.html|title= British TV History – Early Satellite <!--here only the homepage title says "Broadcast" instead (is it better?):-->Relays to/from Britain|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110510052949/http://www.tvhistory.btinternet.co.uk/html/early_satellite.html|archive-date=10 May 2011}} 1960s & 70s, British TV History</ref> however, it was some years before digital line-store conversion was able to undertake the process seamlessly.{{Citation needed|date=May 2020}} ===1970s=== [[File:Angela Rippon (Durdham Downs, Bristol, 1983) (363351929).jpg|thumb|right|Angela Rippon, pictured in 1983, became the first female news presenter in 1975.]] On 14 September 1970, the first ''[[BBC Nine O'Clock News|Nine O'Clock News]]'' was broadcast on television. Robert Dougall presented the first week from studio N1<ref name=Dougall>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/ten/2655185.stm|title=About the Ten O'Clock News|access-date=15 August 2007|work=BBC News|date=17 January 2003|archive-date=17 December 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081217064328/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/ten/2655185.stm|url-status=live}}</ref>{{snd}} described by ''[[The Guardian]]''<ref name="bbcnews1">{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/aboutbbcnews/spl/hi/history/noflash/html/1970s.stm|title=About BBC NEWS – Timeline of events – 1970s|access-date=25 August 2007|work=BBC News|archive-date=17 December 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081217064331/http://news.bbc.co.uk/aboutbbcnews/spl/hi/history/noflash/html/1970s.stm|url-status=live}}</ref> as "a sort of polystyrene padded cell"<ref>{{cite web |url=http://archive.thenorthernecho.co.uk/2004/7/3/46772.html |title=Northern Echo: Archive |access-date=17 August 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070929092219/http://archive.thenorthernecho.co.uk/2004/7/3/46772.html |archive-date=29 September 2007 |url-status=live }}{{snd}} ''Robert Dougall was even less flattering about the first set, and is quoted as saying that the tiling was "grey and lavatorial" [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/spl/hi/newswatch/history/noflash/html/1970s.stm 1970 Voices from the field] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080307094711/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/spl/hi/newswatch/history/noflash/html/1970s.stm |date=7 March 2008 }} together with "a huge round thing" in the background{{snd}} referring to the new rotating clockface logo and CSO screen.'' Newswatch, BBC.</ref>—the bulletin having been moved from the earlier time of 20.50 as a response to the ratings achieved by ITN's ''[[ITV News at Ten|News at Ten]]'',<!-- rendering appropriate to this period. --> introduced three years earlier on the rival ITV. Richard Baker and Kenneth Kendall presented subsequent weeks, thus echoing those first television bulletins of the mid-1950s. [[Angela Rippon]] became the first female news presenter of the ''Nine O'Clock News'' in 1975. Her work outside the news was controversial at the time, appearing on ''The [[Morecambe and Wise]] Christmas Show'' in 1976 singing and dancing.<ref name=Dougall/> The first edition of ''[[John Craven]]'s Newsround'', initially intended only as a short series and later renamed just ''[[Newsround]]'', came from studio N3 on 4 April 1972. Afternoon television news bulletins during the mid to late 1970s were broadcast from the BBC newsroom itself, rather than one of the three news studios. The newsreader would present to camera while sitting on the edge of a desk; behind him staff would be seen working busily at their desks. This period corresponded with when the ''Nine O'Clock News'' got its next makeover, and would use a CSO background of the newsroom from that very same camera each weekday evening. Also in the mid-1970s, the late night news on BBC2 was briefly renamed ''Newsnight'',<ref> {{cite web |url=http://tvlistings.thetvroomplus.com/listing-2528.html |title=The TV Room+ |access-date=5 April 2009 |url-status = dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130204144206/http://tvlistings.thetvroomplus.com/listing-2528.html |archive-date=4 February 2013 }}</ref> but this was not to last, or be the same programme as we know today{{snd}} that would be launched in 1980{{snd}} and it soon reverted to being just a news summary with the early evening BBC2 news expanded to become ''Newsday''. News on radio was to change in the 1970s, and on Radio 4 in particular, brought about by the arrival of new editor Peter Woon from television news and the implementation of the ''Broadcasting in the Seventies '' report. These included the introduction of correspondents into news bulletins where previously only a newsreader would present, as well as the inclusion of content gathered in the preparation process. New programmes were also added to the daily schedule, ''[[PM (Radio 4)|PM]]'' and ''[[The World Tonight]]'' as part of the plan for the station to become a "wholly speech network".<ref name="bbcnews1" /> ''[[Newsbeat]]'' launched as the news service on [[BBC Radio 1|Radio 1]] on 10 September 1973.<ref>[https://www.bbc.co.uk/heritage/more/pdfs/1970s.pdf History of the BBC – key dates page 4] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070614000032/https://www.bbc.co.uk/heritage/more/pdfs/1970s.pdf |date=14 June 2007 }} BBC Heritage 1970s.</ref> On 23 September 1974, a [[teletext]] system which was launched to bring news content on television screens using text only was launched. Engineers originally began developing such a system to bring news to deaf viewers, but the system was expanded. The [[Ceefax]] service became much more diverse before it ceased on 23 October 2012: it not only had subtitling for all channels, it also gave information such as weather, flight times and film reviews. By the end of the decade, the practice of shooting on film for inserts in news broadcasts was declining, with the introduction of [[Electronic news gathering|ENG]] technology into the UK. The equipment would gradually become less cumbersome{{snd}} the BBC's first attempts had been using a [[Philips]] colour camera with backpack base station and separate portable [[Sony]] [[U-matic]] recorder in the latter half of the decade. ===1980s=== In 1980, the [[Iranian Embassy Siege]] had been shot electronically by the BBC Television News [[Outside broadcasting]] team, and the work of reporter [[Kate Adie]], broadcasting live from [[South Kensington|Prince's Gate]], was nominated for BAFTA actuality coverage, but this time beaten by ITN for the 1980 award.<ref>[http://awards.bafta.org/keyword-search?keywords=1981 BAFTA awards 1981] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160224131452/http://awards.bafta.org/keyword-search?keywords=1981 |date=24 February 2016 }} British Academy of Film and Television Arts.</ref> ''[[Newsnight]]'', the news and current affairs programme, was due to go on air on 23 January 1980, although trade union disagreements meant that its launch from Lime Grove was postponed by a week.<ref name="bbcnews2">{{cite news|title=About BBC NEWS – Timeline of events – 1980s|work=BBC News|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/hi/newswatch/history/noflash/html/1980s.stm|access-date=25 August 2007|archive-date=8 February 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070208122541/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/hi/newswatch/history/noflash/html/1980s.stm|url-status=live}}</ref> On 27 August 1981 [[Moira Stuart]] became the first African Caribbean female newsreader to appear on British television. By 1982, ENG technology had become sufficiently reliable for Bernard Hesketh to use an [[Ikegami Tsushinki|Ikegami]] camera to cover the [[Falklands War]], coverage for which he won the "[[Royal Television Society]] Cameraman of the Year" award<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rts.org.uk/servedoc.asp?filename=AWARDS1.pdf#page=36 |title=RTS Hall of Fame – page 46 |access-date=11 April 2007 |url-status = dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060924233153/http://www.rts.org.uk/servedoc.asp?filename=AWARDS1.pdf |archive-date=24 September 2006 }}</ref> and a [[BAFTA]] nomination<ref>[http://awards.bafta.org/keyword-search?keywords=1981 BAFTA 1981 awards] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160224131452/http://awards.bafta.org/keyword-search?keywords=1981 |date=24 February 2016 }} [http://www.bafta.org British Academy of Film and Television Arts] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110831045105/http://www.bafta.org/ |date=31 August 2011 }}.</ref> – the first time that BBC News had relied upon an electronic camera, rather than film, in a conflict zone. BBC News won the BAFTA for its actuality coverage,<ref>[http://www.bafta.org/site/webdav/site/myjahiasite/shared/import/TV_and_%20Craft_Winners_1980-1989.pdf BAFTA 1982 – page 10] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051210100448/http://www.bafta.org/site/webdav/site/myjahiasite/shared/import/TV_and_%20Craft_Winners_1980-1989.pdf |date=10 December 2005 }} British Academy of Film and Television Arts (PDF).</ref> however the event has become remembered in television terms for [[Brian Hanrahan]]'s reporting where he coined the phrase "I'm not allowed to say how many planes joined the raid, but I counted them all out and I counted them all back"<ref>Barnes, Julian (25 February 2002), [https://www.theguardian.com/falklands/story/0,,657871,00.html "The worst reported war since the Crimean"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231124132746/https://www.theguardian.com/media/2002/feb/25/broadcasting.falklands |date=24 November 2023 }}, ''The Guardian''.</ref> to circumvent restrictions, and which has become cited as an example of good reporting under pressure.<ref>[http://www.iwm.org.uk/upload/package/29/mediawar/technolfalk.htm Media & War – The Falklands Conflict] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060929160659/http://www.iwm.org.uk/upload/package/29/mediawar/technolfalk.htm |date=29 September 2006 }} Imperial War Museum.</ref> The first BBC breakfast television programme, ''[[Breakfast Time (British TV programme)|Breakfast Time]]'' also launched during the 1980s, on 17 January 1983 from Lime Grove Studio E and two weeks before its [[ITV (TV network)|ITV]] rival [[TV-am]]. [[Frank Bough]], [[Selina Scott]], and [[Nick Ross]] helped to wake viewers with a relaxed style of presenting.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/january/17/newsid_2530000/2530363.stm|title=BBC on this day – 17 January. 1983: BBC wakes up to morning TV|access-date=3 April 2007|work=BBC News|date=17 January 1983|archive-date=19 December 2006|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061219140555/http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/january/17/newsid_2530000/2530363.stm|url-status=live}}</ref> The ''Six O'Clock News'' first aired on 3 September 1984, eventually becoming the most watched news programme in the UK (however, since 2006 it has been overtaken by the ''[[BBC News at Ten]]''). In October 1984, images of millions of people starving to death in the [[1983–1985 famine in Ethiopia|Ethiopian famine]] were shown in [[Michael Buerk]]'s ''Six O'Clock News'' reports.<ref name="BBCLiveAid">[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/702700.stm "Live Aid: The show that rocked the world"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081205000805/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/702700.stm |date=5 December 2008 }}. BBC. Retrieved 7 January 2018</ref> The BBC News crew were the first to document the famine, with Buerk's report on 23 October describing it as "a biblical famine in the 20th century" and "the closest thing to hell on Earth".<ref>{{cite news|title=Higgins marvels at change in Ethiopia's Tigray province|url=https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/higgins-marvels-at-change-in-ethiopia-s-tigray-province-1.1992467|agency=The Irish Times|date=7 January 2018|access-date=7 January 2018|archive-date=18 September 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180918134554/https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/higgins-marvels-at-change-in-ethiopia-s-tigray-province-1.1992467|url-status=live}}</ref> The BBC News report shocked Britain, motivating its citizens to inundate relief agencies, such as [[Save the Children]], with donations, and to bring global attention to the crisis in Ethiopia.<ref>{{cite news|title=Live Aid: Against All Odds: Episode 1|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0078x3n|agency=BBC|date=7 January 2018|access-date=20 December 2019|archive-date=24 May 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200524001908/https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0078x3n|url-status=live}}</ref> The news report was also watched by [[Bob Geldof]], who would organise the charity single "[[Do They Know It's Christmas?]]" to raise money for famine relief followed by the [[Live Aid]] concert in July 1985.<ref name="BBCLiveAid"/> Starting in 1981, the BBC gave a common theme to its main news bulletins with new electronic titles–a set of computer-animated "stripes" forming a circle<ref>The circle had been a recurring theme of the BBC1 news logo since the start of the ''Nine'' in 1970, as it was thought to fit in nicely with the long-running BBC 1 globe ident, and clock face which normally precedes news broadcasts. Used until 1986, the hard wired news version was known as ANT (Animated News Titles) [http://www.bbceng.info/Designs/RDCE/part_I/101to200/ipage_43.htm BBCEng.info] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071016201502/http://bbceng.info/Designs/RDCE/part_I/101to200/ipage_43.htm |date=16 October 2007 }} and this new logo was drawn live{{snd}} triggered by an audio tone on track two of the two-track mono quarter-inch audio tape of opening title music to ensure synchronisation{{snd}} and also produced the "venetian blind" wipe to the opening story.</ref> on a red background with a "BBC News" typescript appearing below the circle graphics, and a theme tune consisting of brass and keyboards. The ''Nine'' used a similar (striped) number 9. The red background was replaced by a blue from 1985 until 1987. By 1987, the BBC had decided to re-brand its bulletins and established individual styles again for each one with differing titles and music, the weekend and holiday bulletins branded in a similar style to the ''Nine'', although the "stripes" introduction continued to be used until 1989 on occasions where a news bulletin was screened out of the running order of the schedule.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www2.tv-ark.org.uk/bbcnews/bbcnationalnewsother.html |title=TV Ark: BBC News Report: Zeebrugge ferry disaster from 6 March 1987 |access-date=1 October 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070929095542/http://www2.tv-ark.org.uk/bbcnews/bbcnationalnewsother.html |archive-date=29 September 2007 |url-status = dead}}</ref> In 1987, [[John Birt, Baron Birt|John Birt]] resurrected the practice of correspondents working for both TV and radio with the introduction of bi-media journalism.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Forgan|first=Liz|date=17 October 2000|title=Comment: Liz Forgan on BBC radio at White City|language=en-GB|work=The Guardian|url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2000/oct/17/broadcasting.bbc|access-date=31 May 2020|issn=0261-3077|archive-date=26 July 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200726153440/https://www.theguardian.com/media/2000/oct/17/broadcasting.bbc|url-status=live}}</ref> ===1990s=== [[File:BBC Television Centre Newsroom KristynaM Flickr.jpg|thumb|right|The combined newsroom for domestic television and radio was opened at Television Centre in West London in 1998.]] During the 1990s, a wider range of services began to be offered by BBC News, with the split of [[BBC World Service Television]] to become [[BBC World]] (news and current affairs), and [[BBC Prime]] (light entertainment). Content for a 24-hour news channel was thus required, followed in 1997 with the launch of domestic equivalent [[BBC News 24]]. Rather than set bulletins, ongoing reports and coverage was needed to keep both channels functioning and meant a greater emphasis in budgeting for both was necessary. In 1998, after 66 years at Broadcasting House, the '''BBC Radio News''' operation moved to [[BBC Television Centre]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/120791.stm|title=BBC NEWS – New era for BBC radio news|access-date=18 August 2007|date=26 June 1998|work=BBC News|archive-date=17 December 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081217064359/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/120791.stm|url-status=live}}</ref> New technology, provided by [[Silicon Graphics]], came into use in 1993 for a re-launch of the main BBC 1<!-- Not 'BBC One' until 1997. --> bulletins, creating a virtual set which appeared to be much larger than it was physically. The relaunch also brought all bulletins into the same style of set with only small changes in colouring, titles, and music to differentiate each. A computer generated cut-glass sculpture of the [[BBC coat of arms]] was the centrepiece of the programme titles until the large scale corporate rebranding of news services in 1999. In November 1997, [[BBC News Online]] was launched, following individual webpages for major news events such as the [[1996 Olympic Games]], [[1997 United Kingdom general election|1997 general election]], and the [[Death of Diana, Princess of Wales|death of Princess Diana]].<ref>{{cite news |date=13 December 2007 |title=10 years of the BBC News website |publisher=BBC News |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_depth/629/629/7057140.stm |access-date=21 September 2022 |archive-date=28 June 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200628042938/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_depth/629/629/7057140.stm |url-status=live }}</ref> In 1999, the biggest relaunch occurred, with BBC One bulletins, BBC World, BBC News 24, and [[BBC News Online]] all adopting a common style. One of the most significant changes was the gradual adoption of the corporate image by the [[:Category:BBC Regional News shows|BBC regional news programmes]], giving a common style across local, national and international BBC television news. This also included ''[[Newyddion]]'', the main news programme of [[Welsh language]] channel [[S4C]], produced by BBC News Wales. ===2000s=== Following the relaunch of BBC News in 1999, regional headlines were included at the start of the BBC One news bulletins in 2000.<ref>{{Cite web|title=BBC One London - 1 January 2000 - BBC Genome|url=https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/schedules/bbcone/london/2000-01-01|access-date=8 March 2021|website=genome.ch.bbc.co.uk|archive-date=1 March 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210301172301/https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/schedules/bbcone/london/2000-01-01|url-status=live}}</ref> The English regions did however lose five minutes at the end of their bulletins, due to a new headline round-up at 18:55.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Kevin|first=Deirdre|title=Snapshot: regional and local television in the United Kingdom|url=https://www.vau.net/system/files/documents/GB_Regional_TV_in_the_UK_April2015.pdf|website=www.vau.net|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210418003313/https://www.vau.net/system/files/documents/GB_Regional_TV_in_the_UK_April2015.pdf|archive-date=18 April 2021|url-status=dead}}</ref> 2000 also saw the ''Nine O'Clock News'' moved to the later time of 22:00.<ref>{{Cite web|last=McQueen|first=David|title=A very conscientious brand: A case study of the BBC's current affairs series, Panorama|url=https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/4898275.pdf|website=www.core.ac.uk|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171204192014/https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/4898275.pdf|archive-date=4 December 2017|url-status=live}}</ref> This was in response to ITN who had just moved their popular ''[[ITV News at Ten|News at Ten]]'' programme to 23:00.<ref>{{Cite news|date=15 October 2001|title=BBC news move 'halts decline'|language=en-GB|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/1600622.stm|access-date=8 March 2021|archive-date=11 April 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210411062848/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/1600622.stm|url-status=live}}</ref> ITN briefly returned ''News at Ten'' but following poor ratings when head-to-head against the BBC's ''Ten O'Clock News'', the ITN bulletin was moved to 22.30, where it remained until 14 January 2008. The retirement in 2009 of [[Peter Sissons]]<ref>{{Cite web|date=17 October 2019|title=Remembering Peter Sissons, the TV news presenter with unflappable onscreen authority|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/peter-sissons-death-tv-news-presenter-itn-bbc-channel-4-question-time-a9142781.html|access-date=8 March 2021|website=The Independent|language=en|archive-date=18 April 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210418020258/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/peter-sissons-death-tv-news-presenter-itn-bbc-channel-4-question-time-a9142781.html|url-status=live}}</ref> and departure of [[Michael Buerk]] from the ''Ten O'Clock News''<ref>{{Cite web|date=7 June 2002|title=Buerk quits BBC Ten o'Clock News|url=http://www.theguardian.com/media/2002/jun/07/bbc.tvnews1|access-date=8 March 2021|website=the Guardian|language=en|archive-date=18 April 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210418011151/https://www.theguardian.com/media/2002/jun/07/bbc.tvnews1|url-status=live}}</ref> led to changes in the BBC One bulletin presenting team on 20 January 2003. The ''Six O'Clock News'' became double headed with [[George Alagiah]] and [[Sophie Raworth]] after [[Huw Edwards (journalist)|Huw Edwards]] and [[Fiona Bruce]] moved to present the ''Ten''. A new set design featuring a projected fictional newsroom backdrop was introduced, followed on 16 February 2004 by new programme titles to match those of BBC News 24. BBC News 24 and BBC World introduced a new style of presentation in December 2003, that was slightly altered on 5 July 2004 to mark 50 years of BBC Television News.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/tv_and_radio/3829605.stm |title=Fifty years of TV news |access-date=3 April 2007 |date=5 July 2004 |work=BBC News |first=Chris |last=Heard |archive-date=22 December 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061222142448/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/tv_and_radio/3829605.stm |url-status=live }}</ref> The individual positions of editor of the ''One'' and ''Six O'Clock News'' were replaced by a new daytime position in November 2005. Kevin Bakhurst became the first Controller of BBC News 24, replacing the position of editor. Amanda Farnsworth became daytime editor while [[Craig Oliver (media executive)|Craig Oliver]] was later named editor of the ''Ten O'Clock News''. The bulletins also began to be [[simulcast]] with News 24, as a way of pooling resources. Bulletins received new titles and a new set design in May 2006, to allow for ''Breakfast'' to move into the main studio for the first time since 1997. The new set featured [[Barco NV|Barco]] videowall screens with a background of the London skyline used for main bulletins and originally an image of cirrus clouds against a blue sky for ''Breakfast''. This was later replaced following viewer criticism.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/breakfast/5048764.stm|title=Breakfast's new look|access-date=3 April 2007|date=5 June 2006|work=BBC News|archive-date=20 November 2006|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061120095948/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/breakfast/5048764.stm|url-status=live}}</ref> The studio bore similarities with the ITN-produced [[ITV News]] in 2004, though ITN uses a [[Colour-separation overlay|CSO]] [[Virtual studio]] rather than the actual screens at BBC News. Also, May saw the launch of ''World News Today'' the first domestic bulletin focused principally on international news. BBC News became part of a new BBC Journalism group in November 2006 as part of a restructuring of the BBC. The then-Director of BBC News, [[Helen Boaden]] reported to the then-Deputy Director-General and head of the journalism group, [[Mark Byford]] until he was made redundant in 2010.<ref>[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/bbc/8057696/BBCs-Mark-Byford-made-redundant.html ''BBC's Mark Byford made redundant'', Neil Midgley, Daily Telegraph,11 October 2010] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171013235402/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/bbc/8057696/BBCs-Mark-Byford-made-redundant.html |date=13 October 2017 }}. Retrieved: 2 April 2013.</ref> On 18 October 2007, [[Mark Thompson (television executive)|Mark Thompson]] announced a six-year plan, ''Delivering Creative Future'', merging the television current affairs department into a new "News Programmes" division.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2007/10_october/18/reform.shtml|title=Radical reform to deliver a more focused BBC|publisher=BBC Press Office|date=18 October 2007|access-date=25 October 2007| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20071020051207/http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2007/10_october/18/reform.shtml| archive-date= 20 October 2007 |url-status = live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/organgrinder/2007/10/post_51.html|title=BBC cuts: look on the bright side|work=Guardian |date=22 October 2007|access-date=25 October 2007 | location=London |first=Steve |last=Hewlett| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20071024120744/http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/organgrinder/2007/10/post_51.html| archive-date= 24 October 2007 |url-status = live}}</ref> Thompson's announcement, in response to a £2 billion shortfall in funding, would, he said, deliver "a smaller but fitter BBC" in the digital age, by cutting its payroll and, in 2013, selling [[BBC Television Centre|Television Centre]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7050440.stm|title=BBC cuts back programmes and jobs|work=[[BBC News Online]]|date=18 October 2007|access-date=25 October 2007| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20071020035603/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7050440.stm#tables| archive-date= 20 October 2007 |url-status = live}}</ref> The various separate newsrooms for television, radio and online operations were merged into a single multimedia newsroom. Programme making within the newsrooms was brought together to form a multimedia programme making department. [[BBC World Service]] director Peter Horrocks said that the changes would achieve efficiency at a time of cost-cutting at the BBC. In his blog, he wrote that by using the same resources across the various broadcast media meant fewer stories could be covered, or by following more stories, there would be fewer ways to broadcast them.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/theeditors/2007/11/multimedia_news.html|title=Multimedia News|work=[[BBC News Online]]|date=12 November 2007|access-date=19 December 2007| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20071115103603/http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/theeditors/2007/11/multimedia_news.html| archive-date= 15 November 2007 |url-status = live}}</ref> A new graphics and video playout system was introduced for production of television bulletins in January 2007. This coincided with a new structure to BBC World News bulletins, editors favouring a section devoted to analysing the news stories reported on. The first new BBC News bulletin since the ''Six O'Clock News'' was announced in July 2007 following a successful trial in the Midlands.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6291338.stm|title=BBC One gets extra news bulletin|work=BBC News|access-date=11 July 2007 | date=11 July 2007| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20070714232708/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6291338.stm| archive-date= 14 July 2007 |url-status = live}}</ref> The summary, lasting 90 seconds, has been broadcast at 20:00 on weekdays since December 2007 and bears similarities with ''[[60 Seconds]]'' on [[BBC Three]], but also includes headlines from the various BBC regions and a weather summary. As part of a long-term cost cutting programme, bulletins were renamed the ''BBC News at One'', ''Six'' and ''Ten'' respectively in April 2008 while BBC News 24 was renamed BBC News and moved into the same studio as the bulletins at BBC Television Centre.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/media/article3735982.ece |title=BBC rings changes with news revamp |work=The Times |location=London |date=13 April 2008 |access-date=30 April 2009 |first=Dipesh |last=Gadher |archive-date=7 September 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080907171053/http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/media/article3735982.ece |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www2.tv-ark.org.uk/news/bbcnews24/2008.html |title=BBC News Channel – 2008 |publisher=TV Ark |date=21 April 2008 |access-date=30 April 2009 |url-status = dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110510021938/http://www2.tv-ark.org.uk/news/bbcnews24/2008.html |archive-date=10 May 2011 }}</ref> BBC World was renamed ''BBC World News'' and regional news programmes were also updated with the new presentation style, designed by [[Lambie-Nairn]].<ref>{{cite web |author=Peter Horrocks |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/theeditors/2008/04/new_news.html |title=BBC NEWS – The Editors Blog – New News |publisher=BBC |date=21 April 2008 |access-date=30 April 2009 |archive-date=5 August 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200805003251/https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/theeditors/2008/04/new_news.html |url-status=live }}</ref> 2008 also saw tri-media introduced across TV, radio, and online.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Uncorrected Evidence m274|url=https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200708/cmselect/cmfaff/memo/annual/ucm27402.htm|website=publications.parliament.uk|access-date=31 May 2020|archive-date=26 July 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200726153245/https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200708/cmselect/cmfaff/memo/annual/ucm27402.htm|url-status=live}}</ref> The studio moves also meant that Studio N9, previously used for BBC World, was closed, and operations moved to the previous studio of BBC News 24. Studio N9 was later refitted to match the new branding, and was used for the BBC's [[2009 United Kingdom local elections|UK local elections]] and [[2009 European Parliament election in the United Kingdom|European elections]] coverage in early June 2009. ===2010s=== [[File:BBC Broadcasting House newsroom and studio 2013.jpg|thumb|right|The new newsroom in Broadcasting House]] A strategy review of the BBC in March 2010, confirmed that having "the best journalism in the world" would form one of five key editorial policies, as part of changes subject to public consultation and [[BBC Trust]] approval.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8544150.stm|title=BBC 6 Music and Asian Network face axe in shake-up|work=[[BBC News Online]]|date=2 March 2010|access-date=2 March 2010| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20100303054531/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8544150.stm| archive-date= 3 March 2010 |url-status = live}}</ref> After a period of suspension in late 2012, Helen Boaden ceased to be the Director of BBC News.<ref>[https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-21455396 ''Helen Boaden becomes director of BBC Radio'', BBC News, 14 February 2013] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180404060207/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-21455396 |date=4 April 2018 }}. Retrieved: 16 April 2013.</ref> On 16 April 2013, incoming BBC [[Director-General of the BBC|Director-General]] [[Tony Hall, Baron Hall of Birkenhead|Tony Hall]] named [[James Harding (journalist)|James Harding]], a former editor of ''[[The Times]]'' of London newspaper as Director of News and Current Affairs.<ref name="harding">[http://www.mediaweek.co.uk/news/rss/1178458/Former-Times-editor-James-Harding-news-boss-BBC/ ''Former Times editor James Harding to be news boss at BBC'', Gordon MacMillan, MediaWeek, London, 16 April 2013] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231124132757/https://www.campaignlive.co.uk// |date=24 November 2023 }}. Retrieved: 16 April 2013.</ref> From August 2012 to March 2013, all news operations moved from Television Centre to new facilities in the refurbished and extended [[Broadcasting House]], in [[Portland Place]]. The move began in October 2012, and also included the BBC World Service, which moved from [[Bush House]] following the expiry of the BBC's lease. This new extension to the north and east, referred to as "New Broadcasting House", includes several new state-of-the-art radio and television studios centred around an 11-storey atrium.<ref>{{cite news|last=Sabbagh|first=Dan|title=The news from the BBC: its £1bn new base is finally coming on air|url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2012/sep/07/bbc-1bn-new-base-broadcasting|newspaper=Guardian|access-date=26 December 2012|location=London|date=7 September 2012|archive-date=11 September 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180911114538/https://www.theguardian.com/media/2012/sep/07/bbc-1bn-new-base-broadcasting|url-status=live}}</ref> The move began with the domestic programme ''[[The Andrew Marr Show]]'' on 2 September 2012, and concluded with the move of the BBC News channel and domestic news bulletins on 18 March 2013.<ref>{{cite news|last=Coomes|first=Phil|title=Goodbye Television Centre|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/in-pictures-18627051|work=BBC News|access-date=26 December 2012|date=6 July 2012|archive-date=3 February 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130203151813/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/in-pictures-18627051|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=BBC News begins move into Broadcasting House|date=9 July 2012|url=http://www.newscaststudio.com/blog/2012/07/09/bbc-news-begins-move-into-broadcasting-house/|publisher=Newscast Studio|access-date=26 December 2012|archive-date=17 January 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130117060101/http://www.newscaststudio.com/blog/2012/07/09/bbc-news-begins-move-into-broadcasting-house/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="Last move">{{cite news|title=BBC TV Centre broadcasts last network news bulletins|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-21818963|access-date=18 March 2013|newspaper=BBC News|date=18 March 2013|archive-date=31 December 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201231012440/https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-21818963|url-status=live}}</ref> The newsroom houses all domestic bulletins and programmes on both television and radio, as well as the [[BBC World Service]] international radio networks and the [[BBC World News]] international television channel. BBC News and [[CBS News]] established an editorial and newsgathering partnership in 2017, replacing an earlier long-standing partnership between BBC News and [[ABC News]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=17 July 2017 |title=BBC changes US news partner |url=https://www.digitaltveurope.com/2017/07/17/bbc-changes-us-news-partner/}}</ref> In an October 2018 [[Simmons Research]] survey of 38 news organizations, BBC News was ranked the fourth most trusted news organization by Americans, behind CBS News, ABC News and ''[[The Wall Street Journal]]''.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Benton |first=Joshua |author-link=Joshua Benton |date=October 5, 2018 |title=Here's how much Americans trust 38 major news organizations (hint: not all that much!) |url=https://www.niemanlab.org/2018/10/heres-how-much-americans-trust-38-major-news-organizations-hint-not-all-that-much/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201208001945/https://www.niemanlab.org/2018/10/heres-how-much-americans-trust-38-major-news-organizations-hint-not-all-that-much/ |archive-date=December 8, 2020 |access-date=December 29, 2022 |website=[[Nieman Lab]]}}</ref> ===2020s=== [[File:BBC News 2019.svg|thumb|200px|Logo used from 2019 to 2022]] In January 2020 the BBC announced a BBC News savings target of £80 million per year by 2022, involving about 450 staff reductions from the current 6,000. BBC director of news and current affairs [[Fran Unsworth]] said there would be further moves toward [[digital broadcasting]], in part to attract back a youth audience, and more pooling of reporters to stop separate teams covering the same news.<ref name=bbc-20200129>{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-51271168 |title=BBC News to close 450 posts as part of £80m savings drive |work=BBC News |date=29 January 2020 |access-date=14 December 2020 |archive-date=15 December 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201215000003/https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-51271168 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name=telegraph-20200129>{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/2020/01/29/budget-cuts-will-not-solve-bbcs-problems/ |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220111/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/2020/01/29/budget-cuts-will-not-solve-bbcs-problems/ |archive-date=11 January 2022 |url-status=live |title=Budget cuts will not solve the BBC's problems |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph |url-access=subscription |date=29 January 2020 |access-date=14 December 2020}}{{cbignore}}</ref> A further 70 staff reductions were announced in July 2020.<ref name=guardian-20200715>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2020/jul/15/bbc-announces-further-70-job-cuts-in-news-division |title=BBC announces further 70 job cuts in news division |last=Waterson |first=Jim |newspaper=The Guardian |date=15 July 2020 |access-date=15 December 2020 |archive-date=1 November 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201101031912/https://www.theguardian.com/media/2020/jul/15/bbc-announces-further-70-job-cuts-in-news-division |url-status=live }}</ref> According to its annual report {{As of|2021|12|lc=y}}, [[India]] has the largest number of people using BBC services in the world.<ref>{{cite news|date=2 December 2021|title=बीबीसी के अंतरराष्ट्रीय ऑडियंस में भारत पहले पायदान पर बरक़रार - GAM रिपोर्ट|language=hi|trans-title=India retains top spot in BBC's international audience - GAM report|newspaper=[[BBC Hindi]]|url=https://www.bbc.com/hindi/international-59498603|access-date=4 December 2021|archive-date=2 December 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211202105446/https://www.bbc.com/hindi/international-59498603|url-status=live}}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. 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