BBC News at Five
BBC News at Five | |
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Created by | BBC News |
Presented by | Huw Edwards |
Theme music composer | David Lowe |
Country of origin | United Kingdom |
Original language | English |
Production | |
Production locations | Studio A or C, Broadcasting House, London |
Running time | 60 minutes |
Original release | |
Network | BBC News |
Release | 3 April 2006 13 March 2020 | –
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The BBC News at Five was an hour-long daily news programme broadcast at 5:00 pm on BBC News. The programme was fronted by Huw Edwards, the BBC's lead presenter for major breaking news. The show includes a detailed look at the news, as well as analysis with guests and sport and weather updates.
The programme was placed on an indefinite hiatus as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. The final edition of the BBC News at Five was broadcast on 13 March 2020.
History
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 news revamp, the show moved studios within
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.[1] Unlike most other BBC News Channel bulletins, the BBC News at Five was presented from Studio C, which was usually the main studio for BBC World News.
On 4 November 2013, the BBC News at Five received new opening titles featuring the broadcast hour.
On 13 March 2020, the last edition of the 'BBC News at Five was broadcast until further notice in light of the
Outside broadcasts
As well as presenting from the studio, the main presenters were called upon to present on location when major stories broke. For example,
Presenters
If there is no position before the years of being a presenter, then this newsreader was either a relief presenter or occasional guest stand-in presenter.
- Huw Edwards (Main presenter, 2006–2020)
- Gavin Esler (Deputy presenter, 2006–2017)
- Jane Hill (Deputy presenter, 2017–2020)
- Ben Brown (2006–2020)
- Louise Minchin (2006–2011)
- Peter Sissons (2006–2009)
- Julian Worricker (2006–2020)
- Emily Maitlis (2007–2016)
- Nicholas Owen (2008–2017)
- Tim Willcox (2008–2015)
- Joanna Gosling (2009–2010)
- Jon Sopel (2009–2012)
- Clive Myrie (2010–2020)
- Zeinab Badawi (2011)
- Sophie Long (2011–2012)
- Annita McVeigh (2013–2017)
- Matthew Price (2015)
- Maxine Mawhinney (2015–2016)
- Simon McCoy (2015–2019)
- Christian Fraser (2016–2020)
- Reeta Chakrabarti (2017–2020)
- Shaun Ley (2017–2020)
- Martine Croxall (2018–2020)
- Carrie Gracie (2018–2020)
- Rebecca Jones (2018–2020)
- Carole Walker (2018–2019)
Format
Generally the programme followed a standard format as follows –
- 5:00 pm – Headlines
- 5:00 pm to 5:15 pm – Stories
- 5:15 pm – Headlines
- 5:15 pm to 5:25 pm – Interview, in-depth analysis
- 5:25 pm to 5:30 pm – Weather
- 5:30 pm – Headlines
- 5:30 pm to 5:45 pm – Stories with sports round-up (except on Friday)
- 5:45 pm – Headlines (except on Friday for a look ahead to Sportsday)
- 5:45 pm to 5:55 pm – Interview, in-depth analysis (except on Friday for The Film Review)
- 5:55 pm to 6:00 pm – Weather
The weather updates were generally presented from the screen away from the main desk. Sports updates were presented from the BBC Sport Centre at
References
- ^ "BBC News' television output moves to new studios at Broadcasting House". BBC. 18 March 2013. Retrieved 18 March 2013.