65 years of BBC News

Well according to The Last Leg it is 65 years today since the first BBC News programme, with a 20 minute bulletin fronted by Richard Baker as the BBC phased out the newsreel service.

So Happy Birthday.

It was the first proper television news bulletin, however no in vision newsreader was allowed. That would not happen until September 1955, when the BBC found out the new ITV network would be having in vision newsreaders and so launched a spoiler attack on them earlier in September 1955.

Yes. The BBC were worried that facial expressions and body language might be taken to imply bias !

Happy birthday BBC NEWS. You're 65.

I know this only goes up to 2016, but at least it does celebrate the past intros of BBC News up to what's used now.

The 2008 theme sounds different there.

That's because that 08 one was sourced from Martin Lambie Narin's website.

bbc television news is still 65 this week, and we've got a music to play for you composed by David Lowe. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byqEWZAIlGg