Newsbeat
| Genre | News |
|---|---|
| Running time | Monday - Friday 12.45pm, 5.45pm |
| Country of origin |  United Kingdom |
| Language(s) | English |
| Home station | BBC Radio 1 |
| Produced by | BBC News |
| Recording studio | London |
| Original release | 1973 – Present |
| Audio format | FM and Digital radio |
| Website | Official Website |
Newsbeat is the flagship news programme on BBC Radio 1. 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 youth audience, as it may well be the only news programme that these young people come into contact with throughout the day.
Presenters & Editors
Newsbeat has regular presenters during weekdays from 6:30am - 5:45pm. Early morning bulletins (commencing at 5.30am) the 1.30pm and 10:00pm bulletins and the weekend bulletins do not have regular hosts. During the week there are two presenters thoughout the day (excluding the bullitins previously mentioned). Dominic Byrne from 6.30 until anytime alternating between 9:30am and the 12:45 main programme beofore a second presenter takes over for the rest of the day. Presenters include.
News Presenters
- Jonathan Blake - Current alternating weekday presenters, covering Sara Cox, Edith Bowman and Scott Mills' shows, including main Newsbeat programmes
- Tulip Mazumdar - Currently sharing role with Jonathan
- Dominic Byrne - The Chris Moyles Show, occasionally main 12.45 Newsbeat
- Hannah Morrison - Weekends and reporter, and occasional weekday cover
- Debbie Randle - Weekends and reporter, and occasional weekday cover
- Tom Bateman - Reporter occasional weekend and weekday cover
- Catherine Burns - Weekends, occasional sport and reporter
- Sarah-Jane Griffiths - Chief Entertainment Reporter
- Tamasin Ford - Weekends and reporter, occasional sport
- Duncan Middleton - Occasional weekends and reporter
- Duncan Crawford - Occasional weekends and reporter
- Greg Dawson - Weekends and sport reporter / reader. Also news reporter
- Sima Kotecha - US Reporter
- Iain Mackenzie - US Reporter
- Jim Reed - Reporter
- Dan Whitworth - Technology Reporter
- Steve Blears - reporter
- Georgina Bowman, weekday Newsbeat presenter and Natalie Jameson, chief entertainment reporter are both currently on maternity leave.
Sport Presenters
- David Garrido - Chief sports
- Carrie Davis - Sports reader on The Chris Moyles Show and occasionaly 12.45 main Newsbeat
- Mark Chapman - Sports reader on The Scott Mills Show and at 3.30pm on The Edith Bowman Show
- Andy May - Regular Sports reader
Editors
Newsbeat's current editor and controller is Rod McKenzie, himself a former presenter of the programme and the news presenter on the Simon Mayo breakfast show on Radio 1 from 1987 to 1993. Newsbeat's first editor was Mike Chaney - hired from The Sun by the then Director-General to inject a populist flavour to the news coverage of Radio 1. Other current editors include
- Adrian Pearce - Occasional reporter
- Jack Baine - Has been known to do occasional reports and fill in on Newsbeat
- Tom Bateman - Also reporter and presenter
- Angela Clarke
- Toby Sealey
- Debbie Randle - Also reporter and presenter
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[citation needed] and often report on the location of the big news stories of the day.
Bulletins
Newsbeat's shorter bulletins are usually every hour (on the half-hour) weekdays, plus at various times throughout the evening and weekends. There are also extra bulletins on the hour at 7am, 8am and 5pm. A Radio 1 News schedule is available in a copy of the weekly publication Radio Times. In all, 9 million people a week hear the news on Radio 1 through Newsbeat. There are close ties between Newsbeat and 1xtra News (formerly known as TX), the informal news service provided to listeners of BBC Radio's digital-only urban music station, 1Xtra.
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 Lawrie Mayer and Richard Skinner.
Newsbeat's Oddbox
In 2007, Newsbeats Oddbox was launched. A 4 minute video, which looks at the weeks strangest news, presented by Dominic Byrne and Natalie Jamieson when he is away. It is available to watch at www.bbc.co.uk/oddnews, the Radio 1 Newsbeat website and BBC Red Button.