BBC News at Five
| BBC News at Five | |
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| Created by | BBC News |
| Presented by |
Huw Edwards Jane Hill |
| Theme music composer | David Lowe |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Original language(s) | English |
| Production | |
| Location(s) | Studio C, Broadcasting House, London |
| Running time | 60 minutes |
| Release | |
| Original network | BBC News |
| Picture format |
576i (16:9 SDTV) 1080i (HDTV) |
| Original release | 3 April 2006 – present |
| Chronology | |
| Related shows |
BBC Breakfast BBC News at One BBC News at Six BBC News at Ten BBC Weekend News Outside Source World News Today |
The BBC News at Five is an hour-long daily news programme broadcast at 17:00 on BBC News. The programme is fronted by BBC News at Ten presenter Huw Edwards, the BBC's lead presenter for major breaking news, from Monday to Thursday and Jane Hill on Friday. The show includes a detailed look at the news, as well as analysis with guests and sport and weather updates.
Unlike most other BBC News Channel bulletins, the BBC News at Five is presented from Studio C, which is usually the main studio for BBC World News.
The programme started on 3 April 2006 as part of the BBC's relaunch of BBC News presenters, which saw the introduction of the new flagship programme to compete against Jeremy Thompson's Live at Five programme on rival channel Sky News, and to improve BBC News ratings for the hour.
As part of the 2008 revamp of the entire news output, the show moved studios within BBC Television Centre along with BBC News and the BBC News at One and BBC News at Ten bulletins. The show originally broadcast from Studio N8 but moved to Studio N6.
On 18 March 2013, the programme moved to Broadcasting House along with BBC News and the BBC One bulletins. On 4 November 2013, the BBC News at Five received new opening titles featuring the hour of broadcast.
As well as presenting from the studio, the main presenters are called upon to present on location when major stories break. For example, Huw Edwards presented live from the BBC's Washington Studio for the 2008, 2012 and 2016 US Presidential Elections and has presented live from Basra from the withdrawal ceremony: the studio host in these cases is usually Gavin Esler. He has also regularly presented from Westminster. George Alagiah presented from L'Aquila in April 2009 and Haiti in January 2010 when earthquakes struck the countries. Both Edwards and Esler have presented from Edinburgh and Glasgow (at times when the referendum for Scottish independence was being developed). During the 2015 Election campaign Edwards presented from across the UK, while Esler was based in Edinburgh and Clive Myrie served as the London presenter.
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