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7 July - The News Show is rebranded as The 7 O'Clock News. UK Today ends after all of the BBC's regional centres are upgraded for digital broadcasting. However it wasn't until May that all 17 regional services became available on satellite due to the BBC broadcasting all seventeen different feeds on 17 different channels on satellite.
16 February – Network news titles are relaunched in the style of BBC News 24, introduced two months earlier. 2005. 29 May – The final edition of Breakfast with Frost is broadcast after a twelve-year run. [33] 11 September – BBC One launches Sunday AM, a Sunday morning current affairs programme presented by Andrew Marr. [34]
2010. 31 January – The final 03:00 edition of World News Today airs as five editions are replaced on BBC World News are replaced.; 2011. No events. 2012. 25 October – Following the completion of digital switchover in the UK, the BBC News Channel is available to all UK households for the first time, almost fifteen years after the channel first launched.
16 September – UK release of the film Darling starring Julie Christie. 21 September – BP's oil platform Sea Gem strikes natural gas in the North Sea oil field. 24 September – The British governor of Aden cancels the Aden constitution and takes direct control of the protectorate, due to the bad security situation.
3 September – The children's series Rosie and Jim debuts on Children's ITV. 8 September – Historian, author and broadcaster A. J. P. Taylor, 84, dies from Parkinson's disease in a London nursing home. 8 September – York City footballer David Longhurst, 25, collapses and dies during a Football League Fourth Division match.
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23 September – Ceefax is started by the BBC – one of the first public service information systems. [6] 30 September – With the year's second general election 10 days away, opinion polls show Labour in the lead with Harold Wilson well placed to gain the overall majority that no party achieved in the election held seven months earlier. [38]
Events from the year 1992 in the United Kingdom.This year was the Ruby Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II.. This year is notable for a fourth-term general election victory for the Conservative Party; "Black Wednesday" (16 September), the suspension of the UK's membership of the European Exchange Rate Mechanism; and an annus horribilis for the Royal Family.