BBC London News
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| Format | Regional News |
| Presented by | Riz Lateef |
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| Producer(s) | BBC London |
| Running time | Main bulletin: 30 minutes |
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| Original channel | BBC One London |
| Picture format | 720x576 anamorphic 16:9 |
| Original run | 2001 – present |
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| Related shows | South East Today |
BBC London News (referred to onscreen as BBC London) is the BBC's regional television news programme for the English region encompassing London and surrounding suburbs. Its local competitor is ITV1 London's London Tonight, which is produced by ITN for ITV London.
BBC London News is broadcast seven days a week on BBC One in Greater London and the Home Counties, with short bulletins during BBC Breakfast, after the BBC News at One, and after the BBC News at Ten. The flagship programme airs between 18:30 and 18:55 each weekday evening and is usually presented by Riz Lateef. Weekend bulletins are broadcast on Saturday lunchtime & early evening and on Sunday evening. Lateef replaced Emily Maitlis who had been the main presenter of the flagship programme from launch until March 2006, when she left to join BBC News Channel and BBC Two's Newsnight.
Weather forecasts are normally provided by former BBC national forecaster Peter Cockroft, during the lunchtime and evening bulletins, or Wendy Hurrell, or Kate Kinsella during BBC Breakfast (when he is absent one of them or another BBC Weather forecaster presents from the BBC's Weather studio at Television Centre). During the summer season the forecast is normally presented from the roof of the programme's production base at 35c Marylebone High Street, London W1, which is also the home of BBC London 94.9 radio station, but Peter Cockroft is also seen from venues of some of the events or outside broadcasts on the programme.
BBC London moved from Marylebone High Street to the new Egton Wing of Broadcasting House in September 2009, and the first edition of the programme in its new home was broadcast on 28 September 2009. BBC Arabic Television also broadcasts from the building and all BBC News bulletins and programmes will move to the facilities there by 2012.
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[edit] History
The programme launched on 1 October 2001 as BBC LDN. After a major reorganisation of the BBC's South East region, with the London area splitting away to form its own separate region. The previous programme, Newsroom South East, had gradually decreased in its coverage as certain areas were switched to receive over regional news programmes. A brand new programme for the new South East region, South East Today launched shortly before Newsroom South East, effectively broadcasting solely to the London area, became BBC London News.
During planning, the programme for London had been named London Live, also at the time the name of the region's BBC Local Radio station; titles were produced by the Lambie-Nairn design agency but never shown onscreen.[1]
The eventual title became BBC London, though the programme is always referred to by presenters as BBC London News, while programme titles were originally BBC LDN: an abbreviation of 'London'.
The area created for the BBC London programme to broadcast to now covers a much more tightly-defined area, chiefly Greater London but still including parts of Bedfordshire, Essex, and Hertfordshire in the East of England region and parts of Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire, Kent, Berkshire, Surrey and Sussex in the South East England region. There is also some overlap with the editorial areas of other BBC regions in this part of England. Parts of Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Wiltshire, Northamptonshire, Berkshire and Gloucestershire now take an opt-out of South Today,[2] while most of Kent and East Sussex is now covered by the new BBC South East region based in Tunbridge Wells, which produces South East Today.[3]
[edit] Staging
The programme originally launched with a set missing a desk or seating, in a departure from other BBC bulletins. This style was subsequently copied by other programmes including Reporting Scotland. A desk was included in an update to the set in March 2004, and presenters and guests were seated. A further change in March 2007 introduced a new large screen from which reports and weather forecasts were presented.
[edit] Satellite broadcast
The programme can be viewed throughout the UK (and Europe) on digital satellite channel 974 on the BBC UK regional TV on satellite service.
[edit] Presenters
[edit] Main presenter
- Riz Lateef (Main bulletin and alternate late bulletin presenter)
[edit] Other regular newscasters
The following regularly present BBC London News bulletins during Breakfast and News at One, as well as the main 6:30 bulletin, 8pm update and during the News at Ten should Riz Lateef not be available:
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[edit] Specialist presenters
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[edit] Weather presenters
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- Weather presenters from BBC South East Today provide the forecast if the above are unavailable
[edit] Reporters
[edit] News correspondents
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[edit] Sport correspondents
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[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ "BBC South East - BBC London News". TV & Radio Bits. http://www.tvradiobits.co.uk/news/london.htm. Retrieved 7 May 2007.[dead link]
- ^ "BBC South East - South Today". TV & Radio Bits. http://www.tvradiobits.co.uk/news/southeast3.htm. Retrieved 3 April 2007.[dead link]
- ^ "BBC South East News". The TV Room Plus. http://tvnews.thetvroomplus.com/news-143.html. Retrieved 5 April 2009.
[edit] External links
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