BBC News

===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&nbsp;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>