BBC News
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British 24-hour television news channel
Key facts
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Headquarters
- Broadcasting House , London, England
- Language
- English
- Picture format
- 1080i HDTV (downscaled to 16:9 576i for the SDTV feed)
- Owner
- BBC
- Parent
- BBC (domestic), BBC Studios (overseas)
- Sister channels
- BBC One , BBC Two , BBC Three , BBC Four , BBC Parliament , CBBC , CBeebies , BBC Scotland , BBC Alba
- Launched
- 9 November 1997 ; 28 years ago ( 1997-11-09 )
- Former names
- BBC News 24 (1997–2008)
- Website
- www .bbc .com /news
- Freeview
- Channel 231 (SD)
- Bbc iplayer
- Watch live (UK only)
- Bbc news online
- Watch live (UK only)
- Bbc news tv channel
- Watch live (Worldwide access is available)
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Official website
- www.bbcnews.com
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- inception
- 1997-11-09
- name in kana
- ビービーシー ニュース チャンネル
- Commons category
- BBC News Channel
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The BBC News channel is a British free-to-air public broadcast television news channel owned and operated by the BBC. The channel is based at and broadcasts from Broadcasting House in the West End of London from which it is anchored during British daytime, with overnight broadcasts anchored from Washington, D.C. and Singapore. It was launched as BBC News 24 on 9 November 1997 at 17:30, as part of the BBC's foray into digital domestic television channels, becoming the first competitor to Sky News, which had been running since 1989.
On 22 February 2006, the channel was named News Channel of the Year at the Royal Television Society Television Journalism Awards for the first time in its history. The judges remarked that this was the year that the channel had "really come into its own." The channel won the accolade for a second time in 2017. From May 2007, viewers in the UK could watch the channel via the BBC News website. In April 2008, the channel was renamed BBC News as part of a £550,000 rebranding of the BBC's news output, complete with a new studio and presentation.