BBC London
The BBC London News programme broadcasts daily on BBC One, appearing with short bulletins during BBC Breakfast, after the BBC News at One and after the BBC News at Ten. The flagship programme is broadcast between 18:30 and 18:55 each weekday evening, following the end of the BBC News at Six and is presented by Riz Lateef.
Lateef superseded Emily Maitlis who had been the main presenter of the flagship programme from launch until March 2006 when she left to join BBC News and BBC Two's Newsnight.
The programme has had several brand refreshes, the most recent having been on 12 December 2005, with a new title sequence designed by Red Bee Media and theme music composed by David Lowe. The titles now involve a series of videos showing different parts of London life, separated by a white translucent band which crosses the screen until the BBC London logo appears. The title shots change every single night to reflect landmarks and activities that symbolise home for a potential audience of more than 11 million people - bigger than Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland combined.
Comparisons are inevitably made to the commercial TV regional competition, in this case ITV1's London Tonight, which is produced for ITV by ITN.
The programme can be viewed in any part of the UK (and Europe) on digital satellite channel 974 on the BBC UK regional TV on satellite service.
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Radio
BBC London Radio combines speech and music based programmes 24 hours a day, seven days a week. [1] The station has a diverse range of presenters that host varied shows from sometimes controversial phone-ins - Vanessa Feltz to Norman Jay's Giant 45 show including old and new soul funk and house music, although Jay is known for not conforming to one particular style of black music.
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Travel bulletins
A dedicated travel news service is operated by BBC London on all three mediums using information supplied by Transport for London, National Rail and the Highways Agency. Updates within the Breakfast programme on BBC One are shown at 06:28, 06:58, 07:28, 07:58, 08:28 and 08:58, Mondays to Fridays.
The travel news on radio is updated at 31 and 59 minutes past each hour during off peak times, and every 15 minutes, (starting at the top of the hour), during evening and morning peaks. BBC London 94.9 is one of the few radio stations to have access to TfL cameras.
The travel news online is updated from an independent travel information supplier. This data is fed from their main system onto BBC London's website, via the BBC Travel News portal. The online section also has features on various aspects of travel in London.
The current regular BBC London travel presenters are Jules Lang, Steve Phillips, Billy Reeves and Kate Allen.
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See also
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References
- ^ TV & Radio Bits - BBC South East - South Today. Retrieved on 2007-04-03.
- ^ TV & Radio Bits - BBC South East - South East Today. Retrieved on 2007-04-03.
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