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BBC Weekend News
''BBC Weekend News'' is the BBC's national news programme on BBC One at the weekend and bank holidays, although it is often referred to on guides simply as ''BBC News''. It is called ''BBC Weekend News'' on all bulletins and carries generic BBC News bulletin titles, apart from the late bulletin on Sunday where it is named '' BBC News at Ten'' and carries the ''BBC News at Ten'' titles. Format ''BBC Weekend News'' airs three times on both Saturday and Sunday. The main three bulletins are presented from Studio B in Broadcasting House; they follow a similar format to the weekday bulletins on BBC One, but are shorter in length. The lunchtime bulletin normally airs at 1:00pm. The programme runs for approximately 10minutes, and is immediately followed by a weather forecast. The evening bulletin is usually broadcast at some point between 6:00pm. It runs for 15minutes and includes an update from BBC Sport in Salford; the programme is followed by a five-minute regional news bulletin, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
BBC News
BBC News is an operational business division of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs in the UK and around the world. The department is the world's largest broadcast news organisation and generates about 120 hours of radio and television output each day, as well as online news coverage. The service has over 5,500 journalists working across its output including in 50 foreign news bureaus where more than 250 foreign correspondents are stationed. Deborah Turness has been the CEO of news and current affairs since September 2022. In 2019, it was reported in an Ofcom report that the BBC spent £136m on news during the period April 2018 to March 2019. BBC News' domestic, global and online news divisions are housed within the largest live newsroom in Europe, in Broadcasting House in central London. Parliamentary coverage is produced and broadcast from studios in London. Through BBC English Regions, th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
BBC Sport
BBC Sport is the sports division of the BBC, providing national sports coverage for BBC BBC Television, television, BBC Radio, radio and BBC Online, online. The BBC holds the television and radio UK broadcasting rights to several sports, broadcasting the sport live or alongside flagship analysis programmes such as ''Match of the Day'', ''Test Match Special'', ''Ski Sunday'' and ''Today at Wimbledon''. Results, analysis and coverage is also added to the #BBC Sport Online, BBC Sport website and through the BBC Red Button interactive television service. History The BBC has broadcast sport for several decades under individual programme names and coverage titles. ''Grandstand (TV programme), Grandstand'' was one of the more notable sport programmes, broadcasting sport for almost 50 years. The BBC first began to brand sport coverage as 'BBC Sport' in 1988 for the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, by introducing the programme with a short animation of a globe circumnavigated by four c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Lucy Hockings
Lucy Mary Hockings is a New Zealand news presenter for the BBC. She is one of the chief presenters broadcasting worldwide and across the UK. She is also a moderator, events host and media trainer. Her roles previously included anchoring ''Live with Lucy Hockings'' on BBC World News. Since the merger in 2023 of the BBC News channel and BBC World News, Lucy Hockings currently anchors '' BBC News Now'' and on rota ''BBC Weekend News'' on BBC One. Early life, education and early career Hockings was born on 7 March 1974 in Taranaki in New Zealand's North Island. She attended Kristin School in Albany on Auckland's North Shore. She has a degree in journalism from the University of Auckland. Prior to joining the BBC, Hockings worked as a reporter for TVNZ. BBC Hockings joined the BBC as a producer in 1999, before being promoted to senior producer in 2000. As a reporter, Hockings covered the September 11 attacks, the Afghanistan and Iraq wars, the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, the d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Tina Daheley
Tina Daheley (born ) is an English journalist, newsreader and presenter who works for the BBC, both on television and radio. She currently reads the news on ''The Radio 2 Breakfast Show'' with Scott Mills, often contributing to discussions during the show. In addition, she is the regular relief presenter of the Jeremy Vine programme on BBC Radio 2. She is also a relief presenter on the '' BBC News at Ten'' and ''BBC News at Six''. In 2018, she became the narrator (and later the regular presenter) of '' Points of View''. Career Daheley began working behind the scenes in television production and worked on Space Cadets in an early production role. Daheley joined the BBC in 2007. She has presented television coverage of women's football and co-presented the BBC Three political discussion show ''Free Speech'', alongside Rick Edwards. Daheley has also presented the '' 60 Seconds'' news on BBC Three, ''E24'' on the News Channel and '' Revealed'' (BBC Two's Switch Zone). She is the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Katya Adler
Michal Katya Adler (born 3 May 1972) is a British-German journalist. She has been the BBC's Europe editor since 2014. Early life Adler was born on 3 May 1972 in Hampstead, north London, to German Jewish parents. * * She attended the independent, fee-paying South Hampstead High School. At the University of Bristol she studied German and Italian, and was the president of a political society where she started its magazine. In August 1995, after graduating in June, she began working for ''FUNtastic Show'' * * on Blue Danube Radio, in Vienna. In her earlier German and Italian language studies year abroad, she had had work placements with Reuters, NBC in Turkey, and at the Rome offices of ''The Times''. She graduated in June 1995. One of her dissertation topics was denazification for which she interviewed Nazi Hunter Simon Wiesenthal. Career After graduating, Adler initially briefly worked for ''The Times'' before moving to Vienna in August 1995 to work for Mondial Congres ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Kylie Pentelow
Kylie Ann Pentelow (born 29 June 1979) is an English journalist and television news presenter, presenting for BBC News. She was a presenter of '' ITV News West Country'' and the '' ITV Weekend News'' until September 2023, before joining the BBC. Education and career Pentelow was educated at the Sir Christopher Hatton School in Wellingborough, Northamptonshire. After graduating from the University of Sheffield with an MA in journalism, her first post was as a reporter for the '' Bath Chronicle''. She then joined ''BBC Points West'' as a video journalist, and after joining the BBC graduate training scheme undertook postings in BBC local radio in Oxford and Birmingham, before moving back to television with the BBC News Channel. She then became a reporter/presenter for BBC East Midlands Today. Pentelow then moved to ITV becoming the North America news correspondent for the ITV Breakfast programme '' Daybreak'', where she was primarily based in New York City. In July 2013, s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Rich Preston (newsreader)
Richard John "Rich" Preston (born May 22, 1952) is a Canadian ice hockey coach and former forward. Early life Preston was born in Regina, Saskatchewan. He is the son of Ken Preston, general manager of the Saskatchewan Roughriders from 1958–1977 and a member of the Canadian Football Hall of Fame. He studied and played with the Denver Pioneers. Playing career His play with teammate Rob Palmer who was drafted by the Chicago Black Hawks, had attracted them to put him on a negotiation list to maybe consider him. He mulled it over but when Bill Dineen of the upstart Houston Aeros (which had players such as Gordie Howe) inquired about his services, Preston went with Houston, which gave him $30,000 for his first season with a $25,000 signing bonus. Preston began his professional career in the World Hockey Association in the 1974-75 season with the Avco World Trophy champion Houston Aeros At one point, he played on the same line of Gordie Howe and Mark Howe that saw Preston ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Shaun Ley
Shaun Dominic Ley (born 14 June 1969) is a British journalist and newsreader for BBC News. He currently appears regularly on a wide range of BBC programmes from ''HARDTalk'' to BBC Radio 4's ''The World Tonight'' and the BBC World Service's ''Newshour''. He has presented on the BBC's domestic BBC News and international BBC World News channels, as well as on BBC Weekend News bulletins on BBC One. As of October 2021, he was a regular weekday evening presenter (20:00-21:00 & 22:30-23:00 & 23:30-00:00) on the BBC News channel. He occasionally hosts the afternoon news (14:00-17:00), and was the last main presenter of '' Dateline London'' before it ended in October 2022. Early life Shaun Ley was born on 14 June 1969. He was educated at two state schools in Devon in south-west England: at Lynton Primary School, in his home town of Lynton, and at Ilfracombe College, in the seaside resort of Ilfracombe on the North Devon coast, followed by the London School of Economics, in central ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Gavin Esler
Gavin William James Esler (born 27 February 1953) is a Scottish people, Scottish journalist, television presenter and author. He was a main presenter on BBC Two's flagship political analysis programme, ''Newsnight'', from January 2003 until January 2014, and presenter of ''BBC News at Five'' on the BBC News (British TV channel), BBC News Channel. Since 2014 he has served as the Chancellor of the University of Kent. On 11 March 2017, Esler confirmed via his Twitter profile that he would be leaving the BBC at the end of the month to concentrate on his writing activities. He returned to the BBC later that year as host of ''Talking Books (BBC radio program), Talking Books''. He stood unsuccessfully as a candidate for Change UK in London (European Parliament constituency), London at the 2019 European Parliament election in the United Kingdom, 2019 European Parliament election. Early life Esler was born in Glasgow on 27 February 1953, the first son born to a manager of a building com ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Maxine Mawhinney
Maxine Mawhinney (born 18 September 1957) is a former newsreader on BBC News, the BBC's 24-hour rolling news channel. Biography Born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, Mawhinney was educated at Regent House School, Newtownards. She trained as a newspaper journalist in Northern Ireland, then joined BBC Television and Radio in Belfast, before moving to Ulster Television and then ITN in London. She joined Sky News at its launch in 1988, as Ireland correspondent, remaining for two years before going to Tokyo as News Editor for Asia for Reuters Television. After two years in Asia, she spent a year in Frankfurt, Germany, for Reuters Television, before being appointed Washington Correspondent for GMTV at its launch in 1992. Mawhinney returned to London in 1996, joining the BBC's international news channel BBC World. She was the duty presenter in the early hours of 31 August 1997, when news broke of the fatal car crash of Diana, Princess of Wales. She can be seen in this role in the 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
BBC Weekend News
''BBC Weekend News'' is the BBC's national news programme on BBC One at the weekend and bank holidays, although it is often referred to on guides simply as ''BBC News''. It is called ''BBC Weekend News'' on all bulletins and carries generic BBC News bulletin titles, apart from the late bulletin on Sunday where it is named '' BBC News at Ten'' and carries the ''BBC News at Ten'' titles. Format ''BBC Weekend News'' airs three times on both Saturday and Sunday. The main three bulletins are presented from Studio B in Broadcasting House; they follow a similar format to the weekday bulletins on BBC One, but are shorter in length. The lunchtime bulletin normally airs at 1:00pm. The programme runs for approximately 10minutes, and is immediately followed by a weather forecast. The evening bulletin is usually broadcast at some point between 6:00pm. It runs for 15minutes and includes an update from BBC Sport in Salford; the programme is followed by a five-minute regional news bulletin, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Commonwealth Games
The Commonwealth Games is a quadrennial international multi-sport event among athletes from the Commonwealth of Nations, which consists mostly, but not exclusively, of territories of the former British Empire. The event was first held in 1930 British Empire Games, 1930 as the British Empire Games and, with the exception of 1942 and 1946 (which were cancelled due to World War II), has successively run every four years since. The event was called the British Empire Games from 1930 to 1950 British Empire Games, 1950 (four editions), the British Empire and Commonwealth Games from 1954 British Empire and Commonwealth Games, 1954 to 1966 British Empire and Commonwealth Games, 1966 (four editions), and the British Commonwealth Games from 1970 British Commonwealth Games, 1970 to 1974 British Commonwealth Games, 1974 (two editions). The event removed the word ''British'' from its title for the 1978 Commonwealth Games, 1978 Games and has maintained its current name ever since (twelve edi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
