Newsbeat
| Genre | News |
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| Running time | 15 minutes |
| Country |  United Kingdom |
| Languages | English |
| Home station | BBC Radio 1, BBC Radio 1Xtra |
| Producers | BBC News |
| Recording studio | Yalding House, London |
| Air dates | since 1973 |
| Audio format | FM and Digital radio |
| Website | www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat |
Newsbeat is the flagship news programme on BBC Radio 1 and BBC Radio 1Xtra. Newsbeat is produced by BBC News but differs from the BBC's other news programmes in its remit to provide news tailored for a specifically younger audience.[1]
Newsbeat is broadcast at 12:45 and 17:45 during the week on Radio 1. Short bulletins are also heard throughout the day, on the half hour. Extra bulletins are broadcast during The Chris Moyles Show and at 17:00.
Although unconfirmed by the BBC, it's widely thought that the name "Newsbeat" was taken from the Radio Caroline news service of the same name, as was the concept of short bulletins on the half hour. Caroline first used the name (and broadcast 1/2 hour headlines) in the 1960s.
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[edit] History
Newsbeat was launched in 1973 in response to the launch of a network of commercial radio stations across the UK which supplied a news service very different from the style of traditional BBC News. The programme's first presenter was the Radio 1 DJ Ed "Stewpot" Stewart and he was succeeded by Laurie Mayer and Richard Skinner.
Newsbeat's jingles were produced on-and-off by Music 4 between 1998 and 2011, and from 2005 to 2011 have been notable for using the four note Radio 1 'logo'. A new logo and jingles were introduced in June 2011 produced by Koink.
[edit] Location
In keeping with its specific targeting of young audiences, Newsbeat has its own set of reporters based at Yalding House in Central London (as opposed to the main Newsroom BBC Television Centre, where most BBC News operations come from). The team's reporters are themselves young, and often report on the location of the big news stories of the day.
[edit] Presenters and reporters
Current team members on Newsbeat include:
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[edit] Editors
The current editor and controller of Newsbeat is Rod McKenzie, himself a former presenter of the programme and the news presenter on the Simon Mayo breakfast show on Radio 1 from 1988-1993. Newsbeat's first editor was Mike Chaney - hired from The Sun by the Director-General to inject a populist flavour to the news coverage of Radio 1.
Other current duty editors include:
- Jack Baine
- Adrian Pearce
- Anubha Chaturvedi
- Debbie Randle
- Julian Marshall
- Debbie Ramsay
- Charmaine Cozier
- Gabriella O'Donnell
[edit] Newsbeat's Oddbox
In 2007, Newsbeat's Oddbox was launched. A four minute video which looks at the week's strangest news, presented by Dominic Byrne and Tulip Mazumdar when he is away. It is available to watch at BBC Online, on the BBC Red Button and on the BBC News channel.
[edit] References
- ^ BBC Radio 1 Service Licence BBC Trust, August 2009; Retrieved 31 March 2010
[edit] External links
- Newsbeat at BBC Online
- A different Newsbeat BBC Blogs, 17 November 2007 - A history of Newsbeat, written by editor Rod McKenzie
- BBC Odd Box Listing of Oddbox episodes
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