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BBC News at Six
The BBC News at Six is the BBC's early evening news programme on the British television channels BBC One and BBC News (UK feed), broadcast weeknights at 6:00pm and produced by BBC News. It is normally broadcast for 30 minutes, except on bank holidays when it may be shorter and only shown on BBC One. For a long period, the BBC News at Six was the most watched news programme in the UK but since 2006 it has been overtaken by the BBC News at Ten (10:00 pm). On average it is watched by four million viewers.
The programme is presented alternately by Fiona Bruce, Reeta Chakrabarti, Jane Hill, Clive Myrie and Sophie Raworth.
Since December 2007, the length of the programme was shortened from 30 minutes to 28 minutes to allow for a news summary being shown on BBC One at 7:58 pm.
On 8 May 2017, SBS in Australia began airing BBC News at Six during their English-language news programming segment. It is broadcast at 7:00 am every day on delay from Britain.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, the bulletin was extended to 33 minutes.
The programme is usually not broadcast on the international feed of the BBC News channel and is meant for UK viewers only. However, during special occasions or major stories such as UK government collapse, the programme is simulcast on the international feed, carrying BBC News at Six branding and title sequence, although listed on the guide as simply BBC News.
The Six O'Clock News, as the bulletin was originally titled, was part of the second revamp of BBC1's early evening news and current affairs lineup in as many years. In October 1983, the BBC had replaced the long-running 5:40 pm BBC Evening News, as well as current affairs and regional news programme Nationwide, with Sixty Minutes, an attempt to integrate regional and national news and current affairs in a single broadcast; it began with a fifteen-minute news segment similar to the Evening News. However, it lasted less than a year, ending the following July, and for the next five weeks, the BBC Evening News was reinstated at 5:40 pm, finally ending on 31 August 1984.
The new programme launched the following Monday, 3 September, and was originally presented by Sue Lawley and Nicholas Witchell with Newsnight presenter Jeremy Paxman as the first relief newsreader. Andrew Harvey, Philip Hayton, and Frances Coverdale were also regular relief presenters in the early years. The new programme was twice as long as the previous bulletins, with a running time of 30 minutes.
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BBC News at Six
The BBC News at Six is the BBC's early evening news programme on the British television channels BBC One and BBC News (UK feed), broadcast weeknights at 6:00pm and produced by BBC News. It is normally broadcast for 30 minutes, except on bank holidays when it may be shorter and only shown on BBC One. For a long period, the BBC News at Six was the most watched news programme in the UK but since 2006 it has been overtaken by the BBC News at Ten (10:00 pm). On average it is watched by four million viewers.
The programme is presented alternately by Fiona Bruce, Reeta Chakrabarti, Jane Hill, Clive Myrie and Sophie Raworth.
Since December 2007, the length of the programme was shortened from 30 minutes to 28 minutes to allow for a news summary being shown on BBC One at 7:58 pm.
On 8 May 2017, SBS in Australia began airing BBC News at Six during their English-language news programming segment. It is broadcast at 7:00 am every day on delay from Britain.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, the bulletin was extended to 33 minutes.
The programme is usually not broadcast on the international feed of the BBC News channel and is meant for UK viewers only. However, during special occasions or major stories such as UK government collapse, the programme is simulcast on the international feed, carrying BBC News at Six branding and title sequence, although listed on the guide as simply BBC News.
The Six O'Clock News, as the bulletin was originally titled, was part of the second revamp of BBC1's early evening news and current affairs lineup in as many years. In October 1983, the BBC had replaced the long-running 5:40 pm BBC Evening News, as well as current affairs and regional news programme Nationwide, with Sixty Minutes, an attempt to integrate regional and national news and current affairs in a single broadcast; it began with a fifteen-minute news segment similar to the Evening News. However, it lasted less than a year, ending the following July, and for the next five weeks, the BBC Evening News was reinstated at 5:40 pm, finally ending on 31 August 1984.
The new programme launched the following Monday, 3 September, and was originally presented by Sue Lawley and Nicholas Witchell with Newsnight presenter Jeremy Paxman as the first relief newsreader. Andrew Harvey, Philip Hayton, and Frances Coverdale were also regular relief presenters in the early years. The new programme was twice as long as the previous bulletins, with a running time of 30 minutes.