''BBC Wales Today'' is the BBC's national television news programme for Wales, broadcast on BBC One Wales from the

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of BBC Cymru Wales in Central Square, Cardiff. According to the BBC, it is the world's longest-running television news programme. The programme can be watched in any part of the UK (and Europe) on

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channel 972 on the BBC UK regional TV on satellite service. Selected video packages from the programme are available on the BBC news website.

History

The programme began at 6:10 pm on Monday 17 September 1962. Its predecessor, a short ''News from Wales'' bulletin, started in 1957 and was originally presented by Michael Aspel. The new programme, originally presented by Brian Hoey, shared a 25-minute timeslot for regional news with '' Points West'' from Bristol – at the time, both programmes were broadcast to Wales and the West of England from the Wenvoe transmitter near Cardiff. By February 1964, two new television regions,

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and BBC West, had been created with the addition of a new channel (13) for Wales on Wenvoe. ''BBC'' ''Wales Today'' thus became a 25-minute programme broadcast only to Wales while ''Points West'' was only broadcast to the West of England. In 1969, the opening of separate UHF transmitters at Wenvoe (Wales) and Mendip (West) led to complete separation, except for overlap areas in South Wales. Between September 1984 and September 1988, the programme aired at 5:35 pm – one hour earlier than most of its counterpart BBC news programmes elsewhere in the UK – before moving to the 6:30 pm timeslot in September 1988. ''BBC'' ''Wales Today'' shared the same studio facilities (studio C2 at Broadcasting House in Cardiff) as S4C's '' Newyddion'' programme. On 28 September 2020, ''BBC'' ''Wales Today'' joined BBC Cymru Wales' presentation and radio teams at new headquarters in Central Square, in Cardiff's city centre. The first bulletin from the building was coverage of the Welsh Government daily COVID-19 pandemic briefing.

On air

On weekdays, ''BBC'' ''Wales Today'' broadcasts six three-minute bulletins at 27 and 57 minutes past each hour during ''

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''. A 15-minute lunchtime programme airs at 1:30 pm with a short preview at 5:15 pm. The main half-hour edition of the programme airs between 6:30 pm and 7:00 pm. The late night bulletin airs at 10:35 pm following the '' BBC News at Ten''. Three bulletins air during the weekend: early evening bulletins on Saturday & Sunday and a late night bulletin on Sundays, following the '' BBC News at Ten''. From November 2001, a fifteen-minute news bulletin was broadcast on the digital opt-out service

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, first as ''2W News and Sport'' and later, ''Wales Today on 2W''. The bulletin was axed in 2007. In 2020 a separate 30-minute broadcast was added to the schedule during the 2019 Coronavirus outbreak, reporting on live Welsh Government press conferences.

Notable on-air team

Weather presenters

* Derek Brockway *

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* Behnaz Akhgar

Former presenters

References

External links

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