BBC South East Today
| BBC South East Today | |
|---|---|
 Title card used since April 2022 | |
| Production | |
| Producers | BBC News BBC South East |
| Production locations | Great Hall Studios, Royal Tunbridge Wells |
| Running time | 30 minutes (main 6:30pm programme) 10 minutes (1:30pm and 10:30pm programmes) Various (during weekends and Breakfast) |
| Original release | |
| Network | BBC One South East |
| Release | 3 September 2001 – present |
| Related | |
| BBC South Today ITV News Meridian ITV News London | |
BBC South East Today is the
South East Today is produced and broadcast live from the BBC's South East Regional Production Centre in
.Overview
Launched on 3 September 2001, South East Today airs with short programmes and bulletins at varying times.
The programme can be watched in any part of the UK (and Europe) on
Launched with a sole main presenter
The show then became double-headed, with Beverley Thompson (formerly the programme's health correspondent) and Giles Dilnot presenting. In 2004, Geoff Clark joined the programme . Clark and Thompson presented the programme together for five years until their departure in September 2009.[2] Long-serving weather presenter Kaddy Lee-Preston, who had been with South East Today since its launch left the programme in March 2012.[3]
The main presenter is Natalie Graham with weather presenters Nina Ridge and Sara Thornton.[4] The programme's editor is Quentin Smith and the sports producer is Ben Moore. Rob Smith left the programme in November 2020.
The main transmitters that carry the regional news are Heathfield, Bluebell Hill and Dover, with associated relays including Hastings, Tunbridge Wells and Whitehawk Hill. As of 7 March 2012 (following digital switchover), the Whitehawk Hill relay transmitter (which serves the Brighton & Hove area) now carries BBC South East output instead of BBC South, and the region extends as far west as Worthing.[5]
In 2020, the weekday lunchtime bulletin of South East Today merged with that of BBC London News to join forces with the latest on COVID-19 as
On 31 March 2023, South East Today merged with South Today to create BBC South and South East Today for one late night only.
Presenters
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News
- Ellie Crisell (newsreader)
Weather
Former presenters
See also
References
- ^ "Mayer loses BBC sacking case". BBC News. 16 October 2003. Retrieved 7 April 2008.
- ^ BBC axes well-known TV presenters, Kent Online, 12 June 2009
- ^ Popular weathergirl Kaddy Lee-Preston leaves South East Today Archived 15 June 2012 at the Wayback Machine Kent News, 4 April 2012
- ^ The reason BBC South East news presenter Polly Evans has not been seen on TV recently[permanent dead link], Surrey Mirror, 15 March 2017
- ^ Brighton transmitters will be in BBC South East from 7 March 2012 UK Free, 6 August 2011
- ^ The reason BBC South East news presenter Polly Evans has not been seen on TV recently[permanent dead link], Surrey Mirror, 15 March 2017
