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| BBC News at Six | |
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 Title card used since 3 April 2023 | |
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| Created by | BBC News |
| Presented by | Fiona Bruce Reeta Chakrabarti Clive Myrie Sophie Raworth |
| Theme music composer | David Lowe |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Original language | English |
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| Camera setup | Multi-camera |
| Running time | 30 minutes |
| Production company | BBC News |
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| Release | 3 September 1984 – present |
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The BBC News at Six is the BBC's evening news programme on British television channels BBC One and BBC News (UK feed), broadcast weeknights at 6:00pm and produced by BBC News. It is normally broadcast for 30 minutes, except on bank holidays when it may be shorter and only shown on BBC One. For a long period, the BBC News at Six was the most watched news programme in the UK but since 2006 it has been overtaken by the BBC News at Ten (10:00 pm). On average it is watched by four million viewers.[1]
The programme is presented alternately by Fiona Bruce, Reeta Chakrabarti, Clive Myrie and Sophie Raworth.
Since December 2007, the length of the programme was shortened from 30 minutes to 28 minutes to allow for a news summary being shown on BBC One at 7:58 pm.
On 8 May 2017, SBS in Australia began airing BBC News at Six during their English-language news programming segment. It is broadcast at 7:00 am every day on delay from Britain.[2]
During the COVID-19 pandemic, the bulletin was extended to 33 minutes.
The programme is usually not broadcast on the international feed of the BBC News channel and is meant for UK viewers only. However, during special occasions or major stories such as UK government collapse, the programme is simulcast on the international feed,[3] carrying BBC News at Six branding and title sequence, although listed on the guide as simply BBC News.
- ^ News Viewing Figures Broadcast Archived 27 September 2007 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "SBS". Sbs.com.au. Retrieved 3 July 2017.
- ^ BBC News (via heymanyg). "BBC News at Six on BBC One, BBC News Channel, and BBC World News". Accessed 19 April 2023. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FnQ1Ils6Iw