Underplayed Gems

BBC News at Six (1984)

BBC News at Six poster
Genre
current affairs
Country
United Kingdom
Length
2016 seasons, 1038 episodes
Rated
NR
Rating
7.5 of 10 from 2 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

This is a half-hour early evening news program on BBC One and BBC News. It covers the day's top stories for a UK audience. A rotating team of presenters delivers the news each weeknight.

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What happens

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. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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