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BBC South Today
BBC South Today is the BBC's regional television news service for the south of England, covering Hampshire, Isle of Wight, Berkshire, Oxfordshire, West Sussex, much of Dorset and parts of Surrey and Wiltshire. The service is produced and broadcast from the BBC South's Broadcasting House on Havelock Road in Southampton with district newsrooms based in Brighton, Dorchester, Guildford, Oxford, Reading, and Swindon.
From 2000 to 2022, an opt-out of the main programme also covered Oxfordshire, parts of Wiltshire, small parts of eastern Gloucestershire, western Buckinghamshire and southern Northamptonshire. The same geographical area continues to be served by ITV Meridian News for the Thames Valley.
When the BBC introduced regional television news on 30 September 1957, viewers in the South were initially served by a five-minute bulletin from Bristol shared with what would become the BBC West and BBC South West regions.
For geographical reasons, the timeslot for regional news initially had to be shared with a bulletin for Wales, before being replaced by a separate bulletin devoted to news from the South of England at the start of 1958.
On 30 July 1958, the BBC's director general Ian Jacob officially opened the corporation's new Southampton television studio, initially based at the city's Guildhall – the first regional studio to be based outside the main centres. The opening occurred a month before the launch of the rival ITV service provided by Southern Television.
By January 1961, BBC South had been split off from the West Region and began to provide longer regional bulletins of its own – four months before the launch of Southern's rival news magazine Day by Day. Television operations in Southampton soon moved to the BBC studios at South Western House, the former Cunard shipping line headquarters near the city's docks.
On 17 September 1962, an extended 20-minute timeslot for regional news saw the launch of South at Six, before it was renamed during the 1960s as South Today. The programme went onto form part of Nationwide in 1969 and its short-lived successor Sixty Minutes in 1983.
In September 1991, BBC South moved its Southampton headquarters to a new purpose-built broadcasting centre in Havelock Road.
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BBC South Today
BBC South Today is the BBC's regional television news service for the south of England, covering Hampshire, Isle of Wight, Berkshire, Oxfordshire, West Sussex, much of Dorset and parts of Surrey and Wiltshire. The service is produced and broadcast from the BBC South's Broadcasting House on Havelock Road in Southampton with district newsrooms based in Brighton, Dorchester, Guildford, Oxford, Reading, and Swindon.
From 2000 to 2022, an opt-out of the main programme also covered Oxfordshire, parts of Wiltshire, small parts of eastern Gloucestershire, western Buckinghamshire and southern Northamptonshire. The same geographical area continues to be served by ITV Meridian News for the Thames Valley.
When the BBC introduced regional television news on 30 September 1957, viewers in the South were initially served by a five-minute bulletin from Bristol shared with what would become the BBC West and BBC South West regions.
For geographical reasons, the timeslot for regional news initially had to be shared with a bulletin for Wales, before being replaced by a separate bulletin devoted to news from the South of England at the start of 1958.
On 30 July 1958, the BBC's director general Ian Jacob officially opened the corporation's new Southampton television studio, initially based at the city's Guildhall – the first regional studio to be based outside the main centres. The opening occurred a month before the launch of the rival ITV service provided by Southern Television.
By January 1961, BBC South had been split off from the West Region and began to provide longer regional bulletins of its own – four months before the launch of Southern's rival news magazine Day by Day. Television operations in Southampton soon moved to the BBC studios at South Western House, the former Cunard shipping line headquarters near the city's docks.
On 17 September 1962, an extended 20-minute timeslot for regional news saw the launch of South at Six, before it was renamed during the 1960s as South Today. The programme went onto form part of Nationwide in 1969 and its short-lived successor Sixty Minutes in 1983.
In September 1991, BBC South moved its Southampton headquarters to a new purpose-built broadcasting centre in Havelock Road.