The BBC News at Five is an hour-long daily news programme broadcast at 17:00 on BBC News. The programme is fronted by BBC News at Ten presenter Huw Edwards, the BBC's lead presenter for major breaking news, from Monday to Thursday and Jane Hill on Friday. The show includes a detailed look at the news, as well as analysis with guests and sport and weather updates.
Unlike most other BBC News Channel bulletins, the BBC News at Five is presented from Studio C, which is usually the main studio for BBC World News.
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Weekends and Bank Holidays
During weekends and bank holidays, BBC News at Five resembles an unbranded BBC News channel bulletin, usually lasting for 30 minutes. As the main evening news on Saturday is normally at 17:30, when the main news isn't the back half hour is filled with a sports bulletin and The Film Review. It presented from the News Channel's main studio, studio E.
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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 revamp of the entire news output, the show moved studios within BBC Television Centre along with BBC News and the BBC News at One and BBC News at Ten 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. On 4 November 2013, the BBC News at Five received new opening titles featuring the hour of broadcast.
Outside broadcasts
As well as presenting from the studio, the main presenters are called upon to present on location when major stories break. For example, Huw Edwards presented live from the BBC's Washington Studio for the 2008, 2012 and 2016 US Presidential Elections and has presented live from Basra from the withdrawal ceremony: the studio host in these cases is usually Gavin Esler. He has also regularly presented from Westminster. George Alagiah presented from L'Aquila in April 2009 and Haiti in January 2010 when earthquakes struck the countries. Both Edwards and Esler have presented from Edinburgh and Glasgow (at times when the referendum for Scottish independence was being developed). During the 2015 Election campaign Edwards presented from across the UK, while Esler was based in Edinburgh and Clive Myrie served as the London presenter.
Presenters
Former 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.
- Gavin Esler (Deputy presenter, 2006-2017)
- Peter Sissons (2006-2009)
- Emily Maitlis (2007-2016)
- Louise Minchin (2007-2011)
- Nicholas Owen (2008-2017)
- Tim Willcox (2008-2015)
- Joanna Gosling (2009-2010)
- Jon Sopel (2009-2012)
- Zeinab Badawi (2011)
- Sophie Long (2011-2012)
- Annita McVeigh (2013-2017)
- Matthew Price (2015)
- Maxine Mawhinney (2015-2016)
- Simon McCoy (2015-2017)
Format
Generally the program follows a standard format as follows -
- 17:00 - Headlines
- 17:00-17:15 - Stories
- 17:15 - Headlines
- 17:15-17:25 - Interview, in-depth analysis
- 17:25-17:30 - Weather
- 17:30 - Headlines
- 17:30-17:45 - Stories with sports round-up (except on Friday)
- 17:45 - Headlines (except on Friday for a look ahead to Sportsday)
- 17:45-17:55 - Interview, in-depth analysis (except on Friday for The Film Review)
- 17:55-18:00 - Weather
The weather updates are generally presented from the screen away from the main desk. Sports updates are presented from the BBC Sport Center at MediaCityUK, Salford. The Film Review appears during the program on Fridays between 17:45 and 18:00, and is presented by the anchor and a film critic, usually Mark Kermode, from the main desk, however the background and lighting changes to resemble a cinema effect. It features reviews of all the week's main releases.
References
External links
- BBC News at Five at BBC Programmes
Source of article : Wikipedia
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