BBC News

===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>
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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.