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BBC Four further supports foreign-language films with its annual World Cinema Award which has been running since 2004. From the channel's launch in 2002 until the middle of 2020, BBC Four broadcast a global news bulletin on weeknights. Originally this was the BBC Four News presented initially by George Alagiah, which ran at 8pm.
Today, colloquially known as the Today programme, is BBC Radio 4's long-running morning news and current-affairs radio programme.Broadcast on Monday to Saturday from 06:00 to 09:00 (starting on Saturday at 07:00), it is produced by BBC News and is the highest-rated programme on Radio 4 and one of the BBC's most popular programmes across its radio networks. [1]
BBC Radio 4 is the second-most-popular British domestic radio station by total hours, [8] after Radio 2.It recorded its highest audience, of 11 million listeners, in May 2011, [9] and was "UK Radio Station of the Year" at the 2003, 2004, 2008 and 2023 Radio Academy Awards.
There is widespread opposition to the BBC's plans to launch a rolling news service on Radio 4’s long wave frequency and the proposals are dropped. A new news and sport service BBC Radio 5 Live launches the following year. 18 December – BBC 2 broadcasts the Arena special "Radio Night", an ambitious simulcast with BBC Radio 4. [35] 1994
Rather than closing down, the BBC fills the gap with Ceefax Olympics AM which provides news from the Games to fill the gap between the end of live coverage and the start of Olympic Breakfast Time. [2] 1985. No events. 1986. 2 April – Central launches a Jobfinder service which is shown for one hour after the end of the day's programming.
From October 1925, it has been broadcast by the BBC. [4] Today, although most ships have onboard technology to provide the Forecast's information, they still use it to check their data. [5] On Friday 30 May 2014, for the first time in more than 90 years, BBC Radio 4 failed to broadcast the Shipping Forecast at 0520.
15 September – Final edition of Breakfast News on BBC One and BBC News 24, the last conventional news broadcast in the morning. 2 October – The first edition of BBC Breakfast is broadcast, the new morning show on BBC One and News 24 from 6:00–9:30. (9:00 on BBC News 24). 13 October – Final edition of the BBC Nine O'Clock News on BBC One.
BBC Radio 5 Live – news, current affairs, live sport coverage, phone-ins and talk programming, launched in 1994 as a replacement of the original Radio 5. The service is simulcast on BBC Local Radio stations from 01:00 to 06:00 daily. Available on 693 and 909 MW and on digital platforms.