BBC News

===Television===
[[File:BBC News helicopter watching over the cuts protest.jpg|thumb|BBC News helicopter over London]]

BBC News is responsible for the news programmes and documentary content on the BBC's general television channels, as well as the news coverage on the BBC News Channel in the UK, and 22 hours of programming for the corporation's international [[BBC World News]] channel.{{Citation needed|date=May 2020}} Coverage for [[BBC Parliament]] is carried out on behalf of the BBC at [[Millbank]] Studios, though BBC News provides editorial and journalistic content.{{Citation needed|date=May 2020}} BBC News content is also output onto the BBC's digital interactive television services under the [[BBC Red Button]] brand, and until 2012, on the [[Ceefax]] [[teletext]] system.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Perraudin|first=Frances|date=16 September 2019|title=BBC to switch off Red Button information service in 2020|language=en-GB|work=The Guardian|url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2019/sep/16/bbc-to-switch-off-red-button-2020|access-date=31 May 2020|issn=0261-3077|archive-date=14 July 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200714143124/https://www.theguardian.com/media/2019/sep/16/bbc-to-switch-off-red-button-2020|url-status=live}}</ref>

The music on all BBC television news programmes was introduced in 1999 and composed by [[David Lowe (television and radio composer)|David Lowe]].<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|title=Column: David Lowe – the man who changed news music forever|url=https://www.newscaststudio.com/2015/11/03/column-david-lowe-the-man-who-changed-news-music-forever/?og=1|website=NewscastStudio|date=3 November 2015|language=en-US|access-date=31 May 2020|archive-date=26 July 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200726160751/https://www.newscaststudio.com/2015/11/03/column-david-lowe-the-man-who-changed-news-music-forever/?og=1|url-status=live}}</ref> It was part of the re-branding which commenced in 1999 and features '[[BBC Pips]]'.<ref name=":2">{{Cite web|title=What is the music used in TV news programmes? {{!}} Classical-Music.com|url=http://www.classical-music.com/article/what-music-used-tv-news-programmes|website=www.classical-music.com|access-date=31 May 2020|archive-date=25 September 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190925114905/http://www.classical-music.com/article/what-music-used-tv-news-programmes|url-status=live}}</ref> The general theme was used on bulletins on [[BBC One]], News 24, BBC World and local news programmes in the BBC's [[:Category:BBC Regional News shows|Nations and Regions]].<ref name=":2" /> Lowe was also responsible for the music on Radio One's ''[[Newsbeat]]''.<ref name=":2" /> The theme has had several changes since 1999, the latest in March 2013.<ref name=":1" />

The [[BBC Arabic Television]] news channel launched on 11 March 2008,<ref>{{Cite web|title=BBC Arabic-language television channel to be launched 11 March|url=https://www.arabmediasociety.com/bbc-arabic-language-television-channel-to-be-launched-11-march/|website=Arab Media & Society|date=16 February 2008|language=en-US|access-date=31 May 2020|archive-date=26 July 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200726160936/https://www.arabmediasociety.com/bbc-arabic-language-television-channel-to-be-launched-11-march/|url-status=live}}</ref> a [[BBC Persian Television|Persian-language channel]] followed on 14 January 2009,<ref>{{Cite book|last=Committee|first=Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Foreign Affairs|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8L81HYbAUfQC&q=bbc+news+a+Persian-language+channel+followed+on+14+January+2009&pg=PA101|title=Foreign and Commonwealth Office annual report 2007-08: report, together with formal minutes, oral and written evidence|date=2009|publisher=The Stationery Office|isbn=978-0-215-52627-4|language=en|access-date=21 October 2020|archive-date=24 November 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231124132819/https://books.google.com/books?id=8L81HYbAUfQC&q=bbc+news+a+Persian-language+channel+followed+on+14+January+2009&pg=PA101#v=snippet&q=bbc%20news%20a%20Persian-language%20channel%20followed%20on%2014%20January%202009&f=false|url-status=live}}</ref> broadcasting from the Peel wing of Broadcasting House; both include news, analysis, interviews, sports and highly cultural programmes and are run by the [[BBC World Service]] and funded from a grant-in-aid from the British [[Foreign and Commonwealth Office|Foreign Office]] (and not the [[Television licensing in the United Kingdom|television licence]]).<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/persian/news/story/2007/04/070426_adverttv.shtml |script-title=fa:آگهی استخدام در تلویزیون فارسی بی بی سی |work=BBC News |language=fa |date=26 April 2007 |access-date=4 January 2009 |archive-date=15 September 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080915193131/http://www.bbc.co.uk/persian/news/story/2007/04/070426_adverttv.shtml |url-status=live }}</ref>