Newsbeat won Gold for Best News & Current Affairs Programme at the Radio Academy Awards on.

Each station continues to have bespoke bulletins during the weekday breakfast show, before shared bulletins begin at 10:30. Previously, bulletins on 1Xtra were bespoke and branded as '1Xtra News', with bulletins on the half-hour (as with Newsbeat), but with 15 minute programmes at 12:30 and 5:30, a quarter of an hour before the Radio 1 equivalents. Also, for the first four years of the 1990s, Newsbeat was only broadcast at lunchtime as the evening bulletin was a 30-minute programme called News 90/91/92/93.įollowing changes in September 2012, the vast majority of Newsbeat bulletins are simulcast on both BBC Radio 1 and 1Xtra.

Until the start of the 21st century, the Newsbeat brand was only used for the 15-minute lunchtime and teatime bulletins as all other news bulletins, which were always broadcast at half-past the hour, were branded as Radio 1 News. Roger Gale, who had previously worked on Radio Caroline North, was one of the show's first producers. Caroline first used the name (and broadcast half-hourly headlines) in the 1960s. Īlthough unconfirmed by the BBC, it is widely thought that the name 'Newsbeat' was taken from the Radio Caroline news service of the same name, as was the concept of short bulletins on the half-hour. The programme's first presenter was the Radio 1 DJ Ed Stewart and he was succeeded by Laurie Mayer and Richard Skinner. Newsbeat was launched on 10 September 1973 in response to the launch of a network of commercial radio stations across the UK which supplied a news service very different from the style of traditional BBC News. Short bulletins are also heard throughout the day on three stations on the half-hour with extra bulletins broadcast at peak times.īBC Radio 1's remit as a public service broadcaster meant it had to broadcast news. The fifteen-minute Newsbeat programme is broadcast at 12:45 and 17:45 during the week on Radio 1, 1Xtra and Asian Network. Newsbeat is produced by BBC News but differs from the BBC's other news programmes in its remit to provide news tailored for young people.

Newsbeat is the BBC's radio news programme broadcast on Radio 1, 1Xtra and Asian Network. For the news service in which this programme is based on, see BBC News.

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