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BBC Ten O'Clock News
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| BBC Ten O'Clock News | |
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| Format | News, Weather, Sport |
| Created by | BBC News |
| Presented by | Huw Edwards Fiona Bruce |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Language(s) | English |
| Production | |
| Running time | 35 minutes (week nights), 15 minutes (Sundays) |
| Broadcast | |
| Original channel | BBC One |
| Original run | 16 October 2000 – present |
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| Preceded by | BBC Nine O'Clock News |
| Related shows | BBC Breakfast, BBC One O'Clock News, BBC Six O'Clock News |
The BBC Ten O'Clock News is the flagship evening news programme for British television channel BBC One and BBC News 24. It is presented by Huw Edwards, and deputised by Fiona Bruce. It is the final comprehensive news programme of the day on BBC One; controversially moved from 9pm in 2000.
It is broadcast on weeknights from 10.00pm until 10.35pm and features thirty minutes of national (UK) and international news, with an emphasis on the latter. It incorporates five minutes of news from the BBC regions around the UK at around 10:25pm, before closing with a brief recap of the headlines. Its main rival is ITN's ITV News at 10.30 on the ITV Network. It almost always maintains a comfortable lead over ITV in the news ratings.
The Ten O'Clock News is currently the highest watched news programme in the UK, averaging 4.5 million viewers each night[1].
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The programme was launched on 16 October 2000, replacing the former BBC Nine O'Clock News, which had been on the air since 1970. Its launch presenters were Michael Buerk and Peter Sissons.
The move from nine to ten followed the decision by ITV to scrap News at Ten in 1999. The ITV decision was controversial and the network restored the program to compete head to head with the BBC Ten O'Clock News in 2001. In 2004, ITV dropped News at Ten because of poor ratings.
Michael Buerk and Peter Sissons left the Ten O'Clock News in January 2003 to make way for new anchors Huw Edwards and Fiona Bruce. To mark this presenter reshuffle on Monday 20 January 2003 as Edwards and Bruce took over, the bulletin was relaunched along with the rest of BBC One's news bulletins with a new studio.
Since February 2006, the bulletin has been simulcast on BBC News 24 as part of BBC Ten O'Clock News Hour. This consists of the BBC One bulletin up to the point of the handover to the regional news, but omits this and the subsequent headline recap in favour of additional reporting on stories of national interest; particularly emphasising sports and business news.
After the regional news there is a weather forecast from the BBC Weather Centre usually presented by either Philip Avery, Darren Bett, Jay Wynne or Peter Gibbs.
On Monday to Thursday the Ten O'Clock News is anchored by:
- Huw Edwards - anchor since January 2003
On Friday and when Huw is on holiday or unavailable the Ten O'Clock News is anchored by:
- Fiona Bruce - deputy anchor since January 2003
Relief presenter
If Huw and Fiona are both unavailable they are replaced by a journalist from the BBC, the most regular being:
- Emily Maitlis - occasional relief presenter since 2007
- Jon Sopel - occasional relief presenter since 2007
- Ben Brown - occasional relief presenter since 2007
- Sian Williams - occasional relief presenter since 2007
Former presenters
- Michael Buerk - anchor from 2000-2003
- Peter Sissons - anchor from 2000-2003; relief presenter until 2005
- George Alagiah - relief presenter from 2000-2006
- Darren Jordon - relief presenter from 2004-2006
- Natasha Kaplinsky - occasional relief presenter 2006-2007
- Dermot Murnaghan - relief presenter 2004- Dec 2007
Excerpt of the 2007 BBC News theme
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