The channel is based at and broadcasts from Broadcasting House in the West End of London.įurther information: Timeline of the BBC News ChannelīBC News 24 was originally only available on a full-time basis on cable with all other viewers only able to watch the channel overnight when BBC One was not on air. The channel is set to be launched in April 2023 and will include news from both the UK and around the world. In July 2022, the BBC made the decision to merge both BBC News (for UK audiences) and BBC World News (for international audiences) as one news network, under the name BBC News. Across the day the channel averages about twice the audience of Sky News. Its sister service, BBC World was also renamed BBC World News while the national news bulletins became BBC News at One, BBC News at Six and BBC News at Ten. In April 2008, the channel was renamed BBC News as part of a £550,000 rebranding of the BBC's news output, complete with a new studio and presentation. įrom May 2007, viewers in the UK could watch the channel via the BBC News website. The judges remarked that this was the year that the channel had 'really come into its own.' The channel won the accolade for a second time in 2017. On 22 February 2006, the channel was named News Channel of the Year at the Royal Television Society Television Journalism Awards for the first time in its history. For a time, looped news, sport and weather bulletins were available to view via BBC Red Button. It was launched as BBC News 24 on 9 November 1997 at 5:30 pm as part of the BBC's foray into digital domestic television channels, becoming the first competitor to Sky News, which had been running since 1989. Watch live (Worldwide access is available)īBC News (also known as the BBC News Channel) is a British free-to-air public broadcast television news channel for BBC News.

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