BBC One Northern Ireland is a

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television channel based on the UK-wide

BBC One BBC One is a British free-to-air public broadcast television network owned and operated by the BBC. It is the corporation's flagship network and is known for broadcasting mainstream programming, which includes BBC News television bulletins, ...

, owned and operated by BBC Northern Ireland. The service is broadcast from Broadcasting House in Belfast. In the rest of the UK, BBC One Northern Ireland is available as a regional variant on most TV service providers. In the

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, BBC One Northern Ireland is available as a standard channel. On 24 October 2012, an HD variation of BBC One Northern Ireland was launched, to coincide with the completion of the digital switchover process in Northern Ireland. On 18 November 2013, BBC One Northern Ireland HD was swapped with the SD channel on Sky's EPG for HD subscribers. The BBC One Northern Ireland branding is utilised from 6am until the handover to the

BBC News Channel BBC News (also known as the BBC News Channel) is a British free-to-air public broadcast television news channel for BBC News. It was launched as BBC News 24 on 9 November 1997 at 5:30 pm as part of the BBC's foray into digital domestic telev ...

with live continuity handled by a team of regional announcers who double up as playout directors. The channel's main competitor is UTV while also competing with

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and

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from the

. Although BBC One NI and UTV are competitors, on the final night of UK digital switchover, BBC One NI and UTV joined forces for a special

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, ''The Magic Box'', with

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, celebrating 60 years of TV history.

History

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* * 1955 establishments in Northern Ireland BBC television channels in the United Kingdom English-language television stations in the United Kingdom Television channels and stations established in 1955 Television in Northern Ireland Television stations in Ireland BBC Northern Ireland {{Ireland-tv-stub