BBC Ten O'Clock News
Encyclopedia
The BBC News at Ten is the flagship evening news programme for British
television channel BBC One
and the BBC News channel. It is presented by Huw Edwards
, and deputised by Fiona Bruce
. It is the final comprehensive news programme of the day on BBC One
. The programme was controversially moved from 21:00 on 16 October 2000.
It is broadcast Monday to Sunday from 22:00 until 22:30 and features twenty-five minutes of British national and international news, with an emphasis on the latter. It incorporates five minutes of news from the BBC
regions
around the country at around 22:25. Over the three months since its revival ITV News at Ten has averaged 2.2 million viewers compared with an average of 4.8 million viewers watching the BBC bulletin over the same period.
The BBC News at Ten is currently the most watched news programme in Britain, averaging 4.9 million viewers each night.
, which had been on the air since 14 September 1970. Its launch presenters were Michael Buerk
and Peter Sissons
.
Michael Buerk
& Peter Sissons
left the BBC Ten O'Clock News in 19 January 2003 to make way for presenters Huw Edwards
and Fiona Bruce
. To mark this presenter reshuffle, on Monday 20 January 2003 as Huw Edwards
and Fiona Bruce
took over, the bulletin and the rest of BBC One
news bulletins were relaunched with a new studio.
Since 5 February 2006, the bulletin has been simulcast on BBC News channel as part of the BBC Ten O'Clock News Hour. This consists of the BBC One
bulletin for the first half hour, with the second half coming from the News channel studio and presented by Chris Eakin
. It includes a paper, sport and business review.
From 21 April 2008 the programme, along with the rest of BBC News
underwent a graphical refresh and moved into a refurbished studio. It also changed name to the BBC News at Ten.
After the regional news, there is a weather forecast from the BBC Weather
Centre: usually presented by either Rob McElwee
, Peter Gibbs
, John Hammond
or Philip Avery
.
BBC News at Ten has been named News Programme of the Year by the Royal Television Society on numerous occasions, most recently in 2005, 2009 and again in 2010.
reported live from Washington for the 2008 US Presidential Elections and has presented live from Basra fom the withdrawal ceremony. He also regularly presented from Westminster. George Alagiah
presented from L'Aquila in April 2009, Haiti in 2010 and from Egypt in 2011.
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
television channel BBC One
BBC One
BBC One is the flagship television channel of the British Broadcasting Corporation in the United Kingdom. It was launched on 2 November 1936 as the BBC Television Service, and was the world's first regular television service with a high level of image resolution...
and the BBC News channel. It is presented by Huw Edwards
Huw Edwards (journalist)
Huw Edwards is a BAFTA award-winning Welsh journalist, presenter and newsreader.He is a news presenter for BBC News in the United Kingdom. Edwards presents Britain's most watched news programme, BBC News at Ten, which is also the corporation's flagship news broadcast...
, and deputised by Fiona Bruce
Fiona Bruce
Fiona Elizabeth Bruce is a British journalist, newsreader and television presenter. Since joining the BBC in 1989, she has gone on to present many flagship programmes for the corporation including the BBC News at Six, BBC News at Ten, Crimewatch, Call My Bluff and, most recently, Antiques Roadshow...
. It is the final comprehensive news programme of the day on BBC One
BBC One
BBC One is the flagship television channel of the British Broadcasting Corporation in the United Kingdom. It was launched on 2 November 1936 as the BBC Television Service, and was the world's first regular television service with a high level of image resolution...
. The programme was controversially moved from 21:00 on 16 October 2000.
It is broadcast Monday to Sunday from 22:00 until 22:30 and features twenty-five minutes of British national and international news, with an emphasis on the latter. It incorporates five minutes of news from the BBC
BBC
The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters is at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff...
regions
BBC English Regions
BBC English Regions is the division of the BBC responsible for local television, radio, web and teletext services in England. It is one of the BBC's four 'Nations' - the others being BBC Scotland, BBC Wales and BBC Northern Ireland....
around the country at around 22:25. Over the three months since its revival ITV News at Ten has averaged 2.2 million viewers compared with an average of 4.8 million viewers watching the BBC bulletin over the same period.
The BBC News at Ten is currently the most watched news programme in Britain, averaging 4.9 million viewers each night.
History
The programme was launched on 16 October 2000, replacing the former BBC Nine O'Clock NewsBBC Nine O'Clock News
The BBC Nine O'Clock News was the flagship BBC News programme launched on 14 September 1970, which ran until 15 October 2000, when it was controversially moved to BBC News at Ten....
, which had been on the air since 14 September 1970. Its launch presenters were Michael Buerk
Michael Buerk
Michael Duncan Buerk is a BBC journalist and newsreader, most famous for his reporting of the Ethiopian famine on 23 October 1984, which inspired the Band Aid charity record.-Early life:...
and Peter Sissons
Peter Sissons
Peter George Sissons is a broadcast journalist in the United Kingdom. He was the presenter of the BBC Nine O'Clock News and the BBC News at Ten between 1993 and 2003, as earlier a newscaster for ITN, providing bulletins on ITV and Channel 4. He is also a former presenter of the BBC's Question Time...
.
Michael Buerk
Michael Buerk
Michael Duncan Buerk is a BBC journalist and newsreader, most famous for his reporting of the Ethiopian famine on 23 October 1984, which inspired the Band Aid charity record.-Early life:...
& Peter Sissons
Peter Sissons
Peter George Sissons is a broadcast journalist in the United Kingdom. He was the presenter of the BBC Nine O'Clock News and the BBC News at Ten between 1993 and 2003, as earlier a newscaster for ITN, providing bulletins on ITV and Channel 4. He is also a former presenter of the BBC's Question Time...
left the BBC Ten O'Clock News in 19 January 2003 to make way for presenters Huw Edwards
Huw Edwards (journalist)
Huw Edwards is a BAFTA award-winning Welsh journalist, presenter and newsreader.He is a news presenter for BBC News in the United Kingdom. Edwards presents Britain's most watched news programme, BBC News at Ten, which is also the corporation's flagship news broadcast...
and Fiona Bruce
Fiona Bruce
Fiona Elizabeth Bruce is a British journalist, newsreader and television presenter. Since joining the BBC in 1989, she has gone on to present many flagship programmes for the corporation including the BBC News at Six, BBC News at Ten, Crimewatch, Call My Bluff and, most recently, Antiques Roadshow...
. To mark this presenter reshuffle, on Monday 20 January 2003 as Huw Edwards
Huw Edwards (journalist)
Huw Edwards is a BAFTA award-winning Welsh journalist, presenter and newsreader.He is a news presenter for BBC News in the United Kingdom. Edwards presents Britain's most watched news programme, BBC News at Ten, which is also the corporation's flagship news broadcast...
and Fiona Bruce
Fiona Bruce
Fiona Elizabeth Bruce is a British journalist, newsreader and television presenter. Since joining the BBC in 1989, she has gone on to present many flagship programmes for the corporation including the BBC News at Six, BBC News at Ten, Crimewatch, Call My Bluff and, most recently, Antiques Roadshow...
took over, the bulletin and the rest of BBC One
BBC One
BBC One is the flagship television channel of the British Broadcasting Corporation in the United Kingdom. It was launched on 2 November 1936 as the BBC Television Service, and was the world's first regular television service with a high level of image resolution...
news bulletins were relaunched with a new studio.
Since 5 February 2006, the bulletin has been simulcast on BBC News channel as part of the BBC Ten O'Clock News Hour. This consists of the BBC One
BBC One
BBC One is the flagship television channel of the British Broadcasting Corporation in the United Kingdom. It was launched on 2 November 1936 as the BBC Television Service, and was the world's first regular television service with a high level of image resolution...
bulletin for the first half hour, with the second half coming from the News channel studio and presented by Chris Eakin
Chris Eakin
Chris Eakin is a newsreader on the BBC's 24 hour rolling news channel, BBC News.-Early life:He was born in Northern Ireland and lived at Helen's Bay in County Down, then briefly moved to Spain. His father was a civil engineer....
. It includes a paper, sport and business review.
From 21 April 2008 the programme, along with the rest of BBC News
BBC News
BBC News is the department of the British Broadcasting Corporation responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs. 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...
underwent a graphical refresh and moved into a refurbished studio. It also changed name to the BBC News at Ten.
After the regional news, there is a weather forecast from the BBC Weather
BBC Weather
BBC Weather is the BBC's department in charge of preparing and broadcasting weather forecasts and is now part of BBC News. The broadcast meteorologists are employed by the Met Office...
Centre: usually presented by either Rob McElwee
Rob McElwee
Robert "Rob" McElwee was BBC Weather's longest-serving weather forecaster since the departure of Michael Fish. He presented forecasts on BBC News, BBC World News, BBC Radio 4, BBC Radio 2, BBC Radio 5 Live and BBC One...
, Peter Gibbs
Peter Gibbs
Peter Gibbs is a BBC Weather forecaster, who appears regularly on BBC News, BBC World News and BBC Radio, particularly BBC Radio Four. He has previously worked on the BBC News at One, BBC News at Six, BBC News at Ten and BBC Breakfast....
, John Hammond
John Hammond (weather forecaster)
John Hammond is an English weather forecaster for the BBC. He can be seen presenting weather forecasts on BBC News, BBC One, BBC Red Button, BBC World News and BBC Radio...
or Philip Avery
Philip Avery
Philip Avery is a national BBC Weather forecaster, appearing regularly on BBC News, BBC World News, BBC Red Button, BBC Radio 2, BBC Radio Five Live and BBC Radio 4, where he is a regular forecaster on the Today programme...
.
BBC News at Ten has been named News Programme of the Year by the Royal Television Society on numerous occasions, most recently in 2005, 2009 and again in 2010.
Out of Studio
As well as presenting from the studio, the main presenters are called upon to present on location when major stories break. For example Huw EdwardsHuw Edwards (journalist)
Huw Edwards is a BAFTA award-winning Welsh journalist, presenter and newsreader.He is a news presenter for BBC News in the United Kingdom. Edwards presents Britain's most watched news programme, BBC News at Ten, which is also the corporation's flagship news broadcast...
reported live from Washington for the 2008 US Presidential Elections and has presented live from Basra fom the withdrawal ceremony. He also regularly presented from Westminster. George Alagiah
George Alagiah
George Maxwell Alagiah OBE is a British newsreader, journalist and television news presenter.Since 3 December 2007, he has been the sole presenter of the BBC News at Six and has also been the main presenter of GMT on BBC World News since its launch on 1 February 2010...
presented from L'Aquila in April 2009, Haiti in 2010 and from Egypt in 2011.
Weekdays
| Years | Presenter | Current role |
|---|---|---|
| 2003–present | Huw Edwards Huw Edwards (journalist) Huw Edwards is a BAFTA award-winning Welsh journalist, presenter and newsreader.He is a news presenter for BBC News in the United Kingdom. Edwards presents Britain's most watched news programme, BBC News at Ten, which is also the corporation's flagship news broadcast... |
Main presenter (Monday-Thursday) |
| 2003–present | Fiona Bruce Fiona Bruce Fiona Elizabeth Bruce is a British journalist, newsreader and television presenter. Since joining the BBC in 1989, she has gone on to present many flagship programmes for the corporation including the BBC News at Six, BBC News at Ten, Crimewatch, Call My Bluff and, most recently, Antiques Roadshow... |
Main presenter (Friday), Main relief presenter |
| 2000–present | George Alagiah George Alagiah George Maxwell Alagiah OBE is a British newsreader, journalist and television news presenter.Since 3 December 2007, he has been the sole presenter of the BBC News at Six and has also been the main presenter of GMT on BBC World News since its launch on 1 February 2010... |
Regular relief presenter |
| 2006–present | Sophie Raworth Sophie Raworth Sophie Jane Raworth is an English newsreader and journalist who works for British broadcaster the BBC. She is the main presenter of the BBC News at One, presenting Tuesday to Friday, and regularly appears on the BBC News at Six and occasionally on BBC News at Ten.-Early life:Born in Surrey to a... |
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| 2010–present | Mishal Husain Mishal Husain Mishal Husain is a television news presenter for the BBC's international news channel, BBC World News, presenting Impact between 1400 and 1600 GMT every Monday to Thursday as well as presenting the Sunday evening editions of the BBC Weekend News on BBC One... |
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| 2007–present | Emily Maitlis Emily Maitlis Emily Maitlis is a Canadian-born British journalist and newsreader, currently employed by the BBC.-Career:Raised in Sheffield, she was educated at the local King Edward VII School... |
Occasional relief presenter |
| 2009–present | Kate Silverton Kate Silverton Kate Silverton is an English journalist, currently employed by the BBC.- Early life and education :Silverton was born in Essex, England, the daughter of English parents; Terry Silverton, a black-cab driver turned registered hypnotherapist and Patricia Silverton, who now heads her daughter's... |
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| 2004-present | Sian Williams |
Former presenters
- Michael BuerkMichael BuerkMichael Duncan Buerk is a BBC journalist and newsreader, most famous for his reporting of the Ethiopian famine on 23 October 1984, which inspired the Band Aid charity record.-Early life:...
(Main presenter 2000-2003) - Peter SissonsPeter SissonsPeter George Sissons is a broadcast journalist in the United Kingdom. He was the presenter of the BBC Nine O'Clock News and the BBC News at Ten between 1993 and 2003, as earlier a newscaster for ITN, providing bulletins on ITV and Channel 4. He is also a former presenter of the BBC's Question Time...
(Main presenter 2000-2003, relief presenter until 2005) - Darren JordonDarren JordonDarren Jordon is a British journalist working for the Al-Jazeera 24 hour English language news and current affairs channel, Al Jazeera English....
(Relief presenter 2000-2006) - Dermot MurnaghanDermot MurnaghanDermot Murnaghan is a British journalist and television presenter.He is well known for his work as a presenter of ITV and BBC News as well as the shows Eggheads and Treasure Hunt . He co-presented BBC Breakfast from Monday to Thursday as well as regularly fronting national BBC news bulletins...
(Relief presenter 2004-2007) - Natasha KaplinskyNatasha KaplinskyNatasha Margaret Kaplinsky is a British newsreader and television presenter, currently employed by ITV having previously worked for Channel 5, Sky News and the BBC...
(Occasional relief presenter 2006-2007) - Jon Sopel (Occasional relief presenter 2006-2007)