BBC News at One | |
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Also known as |
BBC One O'Clock News (1986–2008) BBC News at One O'Clock (1999-2004) |
Created by | BBC News |
Presented by |
Sophie Raworth Kate Silverton |
Theme music composer | David Lowe |
Country of origin | United Kingdom |
Original language(s) | English |
Production | |
News editor(s) | Sam Taylor |
Location(s) |
1986-2013 BBC Television Centre Studio E, Broadcasting House, London |
Running time | 30 minutes |
Release | |
Original network |
BBC One BBC One HD |
Picture format |
576i (16:9 SDTV) 1080i (HDTV) |
Original release | 27 October 1986 | – present
Chronology | |
Preceded by | BBC News After Noon |
Related shows |
BBC Breakfast BBC News at Five BBC News at Six BBC News at Ten BBC Weekend News Outside Source World News Today |
1986-2013 BBC Television Centre
The BBC News at One is the afternoon news bulletin from the BBC. Produced by BBC News, the programme is broadcast on BBC One and the BBC News channel every weekday at 1:00pm. The programme is usually presented by Sophie Raworth every Monday to Thursday and Kate Silverton on Friday.
The BBC News at One achieved an average reach of 2.7 million viewers per bulletin in 2007, making it the most watched programme on UK daytime television.
The One O'Clock News launched on 27 October 1986 together with the daytime television service on BBC1, serving as a replacement to the BBC's News After Noon programme, which had a two-person presentation team of Richard Whitmore and either Moira Stuart or Frances Coverdale. Martyn Lewis, who had joined the BBC from rival ITN, was the original presenter of the new One O'Clock News, in a single-presenter format.
A unified look across BBC news output was introduced in April 1993, and the programme, while retaining the One O'Clock News title, adopted this look, though still kept some of its individuality, such as a reworked version of the theme music.
A new look across all of BBC News television output on 10 May 1999 meant that for the first time all the main bulletins on BBC One had the same look, the only exception being the title of the programme. At this time Anna Ford took over as the main presenter of the bulletin, staying until her retirement from news reading in April 2006.
On 22 January 2007 the programme titles were relaunched, along with the rest of the BBC television output, to give an identical series of titles across news programming on all BBC channels.
On 4 February 2008, the programme temporarily moved studios, from N6 to N8 (the former BBC News 24 studio), as part of restructuring across BBC News. On 21 April 2008 the programme underwent a graphical refresh and returned to the refurbished N6 as well as changing its name to the BBC News at One.