BBC Newsline
| BBC Newsline | |
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| Presented by |
Donna Traynor Tara Mills Tina Campbell Stephen Watson Gavin Andrews |
| Theme music composer | David Lowe |
| Country of origin | Northern Ireland |
| Original language(s) | English |
| Production | |
| Running time | Main bulletin: 30 minutes; Short bulletins: Durations vary |
| Production company(s) |
BBC Northern Ireland BBC News |
| Release | |
| Original network | BBC One Northern Ireland |
| Picture format |
576i (16:9 SDTV) 1080i (HDTV) |
| Original release | 12 February 1996 – present |
| External links | |
| Website | |
BBC Newsline is the BBC's regional television news service for Northern Ireland. The programme is broadcast on BBC One Northern Ireland from BBC Northern Ireland's headquarters in Broadcasting House, Ormeau Avenue, Belfast.
As well as being available via all multi-channel outlets in Northern Ireland (including via Sky channel 101), the programme can be accessed by the rest of the United Kingdom (along with all other regional BBC news programmes) on the BBC iPlayer, or alternatively on Sky channel 973. Viewers from the Republic of Ireland with a Sky subscription can also watch on Sky channel 141. As the BBC UK regional TV on satellite service is broadcast unencrypted, it is possible to receive BBC Newsline anywhere in Europe using an appropriate receiver.
BBC Newsline is the most recent incarnation of BBC Northern Ireland's television news service, which began on Monday 30 September 1957 as part of the corporation's rollout of regional television services. The first five-minute bulletins, Today in Northern Ireland, were presented by Maurice Shillington and broadcast from a tiny radio studio within Broadcasting House in Belfast.
Up until the launch of Today in Northern Ireland, a networked topical magazine programme, Ulster Mirror, had been broadcast every fortnight since Friday 26 November 1954. The new daily bulletins were later expanded to ten minutes and supplemented by a magazine programme called Studio Eight, first broadcast on Friday 20 February 1959 with Robert Coulter as its presenter. Today in Northern Ireland was replaced on 17 September 1962 by a 20-minute programme initially known as Six O'Clock. The new longer magazine programmes changed title to Six Five and Six Ten until Scene Around Six was introduced in January 1968.
Main presenters during the programme's history included Larry McCoubrey, Barry Cowan and Sean Rafferty. The launch of the national Six O'Clock News led to Scene Around Six being relaunched as Inside Ulster in September 1984 and moved to an earlier timeslot of 5.35pm.
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