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Radio Newsreel
Published 12 December 2022
A look behind the scenes of the Light Programme’s major news bulletin
The last of Richard Baker’s summer wine
Published 8 July 2022
As Richard Baker retires from newsreading in 1982, Ariel looks back at his BBC career
BBC at War – part 2: The Home Front
Published 25 March 2022
The BBC serves the Home Front – from replacing bombed-out schools to playing music while you work
Newsflash TV man is returning to theatre
Published 3 January 2022
John Edmunds hangs up his newsreader’s tie and gets ready to tread the boards – or not
ITN reaches for the stars
Published 20 July 2019
More people chose to watch ITN’s coverage of the moon landings than the BBC’s.
Twenty-Four Hours
Published 29 September 2016
The Radio Times in 1966 spends an evening with the people behind BBC-1’s ’24 Hours’
Closing time
Published 10 June 2011
As the BBC continues to wrestle with the prospect of making significant cost savings, the subject of channel closures (television or radio) has reared its head yet again, but this…
News clippings
Published 21 April 2011
The BBC’s “Delivering Quality First” (or should that really read Delivering Cutbacks First?) initiative, which has borne witness to a deluge of “trial balloons” in recent weeks, seems to (finally)…
Diluted daytime
Published 7 March 2011
You know that the BBC is in serious financial trouble when it’s now floating an idea to replace daytime BBC Two with rolling news, aka BBC News 24 or the…
Biased opinion
Published 18 December 2010
Major news provision costs money. Of all people, Mark Thompson ought to know a thing or two when it comes to such matters, as well as the roles and responsibilities…
The hardest sell
Published 5 November 2010
Strikes are never nice things even when you have 100% support from all concerned, but when it affects a group of people who appear to have relatively secure and reasonably…
BBC Strikes
Published 4 November 2010
As I type it’s about two hours to go before the start of a 48 hour walkout by BBC members of the NUJ union as part of a protest about pension changes at the broadcaster. The walkout is expected to affect most of the Corporation’s news and current affairs output with high profile casualties likely to include the Today Programme and Newsnight, as well as BBC One’s news bulletins and the BBC News Channel.
Cutting remarks
Published 20 October 2010
Given the pro-BBC lobby’s near-meltdown at the merest thought of yesterday’s licence fee settlement (not only frozen but with additional expenditure tacked on as well), it’s rather perplexing to still…
Jackson mania
Published 26 June 2009
Once every so often, a news story breaks of great enough importance that gets the media into such a tizz it makes everything else take a back seat for a…
For goodness’ sake, turn off the tweets
Published 5 November 2008
Last night found me glued to the BBC News US Election coverage on the BBC website until I dragged myself away at 3am, with Ohio called for Obama and Virginia…
Report gives BBC News a (reasonably) clean bill of health
Published 24 June 2007
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6763205.stm On the way home Friday evening, The Now Show, among its other targets, took a pot-shot at ITV. One of the comics spoke about a visit he’d made in…
RIP BBC Television News
Published 27 March 2007
Moira Stuart loses BBC News slot It’s bad enough that BBC Television News has become a round-up of the day’s press-releases from think-tanks, pressure groups, charities and universities interspersed with…
The war will be televised
Published 1 January 2002
Changes predicted for when a crisis comes to a head