#Bbc news .com free#

One major recent defining feature of BBC News has been the programme 100 Days, later Beyond 100 Days, which Taylor was responsible for creating. Sam Taylor continues as Executive Editor of the BBC News Channel and the BBC News at One. In 2016 the Controller positions of BBC One and BBC Two were scrapped. On 1 October 2012 Sam Taylor was appointed Controller of BBC News, along with the BBC News at One. The introduction of simulcasts of the main bulletins on the channel was to allow the news bulletins to pool resources rather than work against each other at key times in the face of competition particularly from Sky News. Ī further announcement by Head of television news Peter Horrocks came at the same time as Bakhurst's appointment in which he outlined his plan to provide more funding and resources for the channel and shift the corporation's emphasis regarding news away from the traditional BBC One bulletins and across to the rolling news channel. Her deputy Mark Popescu became responsible for editorial content in 2004, a role he continued in until the appointment of Kevin Bakhurst as Controller in 2005.

Editorial decisions were then overseen by Rachel Atwell in her capacity as Deputy Head of television news. At launch, Tim Orchard was Controller of News 24 from 1997 until 2000. This was a return to having a dedicated Controller for the channel in the same way as the rest of the BBC's domestic television channels. The channel's journalistic output has been overseen by Controller of the channel since 16 December 2005. The Commission ruled that the licence fee should be considered state aid but that such aid was justified due to the public service remit of the BBC and that it did not exceed actual costs. However, in September 1999 the European Commission ruled against a complaint made by Sky News that the publicly funded channel was unfair and illegal under EU law. Sky News claimed that a number of British cable operators had been incentivised to carry News 24 (which, as a licence-fee funded channel was made available to such operators for free) in preference to the commercial Sky News. Sky News objected to the breaking of its monopoly, complaining about the costs associated with running a channel that only a minority could view from the licence fee.

#Bbc news .com free#

Sky News has had a free hand with domestic news coverage for over eight years (since 5 February 1989) and being owned by News Corporation their papers were used to criticise the BBC for extending its news output. The BBC had run the international news channel BBC World for two and a half years prior to the launch of BBC News 24 on 9 November 1997. Initially it was difficult to obtain a digital satellite or terrestrial receiver without a subscription to Sky or ONdigital respectively, but now the channel forms an important part of the Freeview and Freesat channel packages. This coverage was improved in 1998 with the advent of digital television in the United Kingdom allowing satellite and digital terrestrial television viewers to also view the service. 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 television news channel for BBC News. (downscaled to 16:9 576i for the SDTV feed)