Newsbeat is the flagship news programme on
BBC Radio 1BBC Radio 1 is a British national radio station operated by the BBC which also broadcasts internationally, specialising in current popular music and chart hits throughout the day. Radio 1 provides alternative genres after 7:00pm including electronic dance, hip hop, rock or interviews. It is aimed...
.
Newsbeat is produced by
BBC NewsBBC News, formerly BBC News and Current Affairs, is the department within the British Broadcasting Corporation responsible for the corporation's news-gathering and production of news programmes on BBC television, radio and online....
but differs from the BBC's other news programmes in its remit to provide news tailored for a specifically youth audience.
Newsbeat has regular presenters during weekdays from 6:30am - 5:45pm. Early morning bulletins (commencing at 5.30am) the 1.30pm and 10:00pm bulletins and the weekend bulletins do not have regular hosts.
Newsbeat is the flagship news programme on
BBC Radio 1BBC Radio 1 is a British national radio station operated by the BBC which also broadcasts internationally, specialising in current popular music and chart hits throughout the day. Radio 1 provides alternative genres after 7:00pm including electronic dance, hip hop, rock or interviews. It is aimed...
.
Newsbeat is produced by
BBC NewsBBC News, formerly BBC News and Current Affairs, is the department within the British Broadcasting Corporation responsible for the corporation's news-gathering and production of news programmes on BBC television, radio and online....
but differs from the BBC's other news programmes in its remit to provide news tailored for a specifically youth audience.
Presenters and editors
Newsbeat has regular presenters during weekdays from 6:30am - 5:45pm. Early morning bulletins (commencing at 5.30am) the 1.30pm and 10:00pm bulletins and the weekend bulletins do not have regular hosts. During the week there are two presenters throughout the day (excluding the bulletins previously mentioned). Dominic Byrne from 6.30 until anytime alternating between 9:30am and the 12:45 main programme before a second presenter takes over for the rest of the day. Presenters include.
News Team
- Tulip Mazumdar - Newsbeat Presenter
- Dominic Byrne
Dominic Anthony Byrne is a newsreader for BBC Radio 1 - notably The Chris Moyles Show and presenter on the BBC News Channel-Biography:...
- The Chris Moyles Show, Fearne Cotton Show and 12.45 Newsbeat on Monday's
- Chris Smith - Deputy Presenter / Reporter
- Hannah Morrison - Weekday cover, Weekends, and reporter
- Debbie Randle - Weekday cover, Weekends, and reporter
- Jonathan Blake - US Reporter in New York
- Dave Howard - Politics Reporter
- Tom Bateman - Reporter occasional weekend and weekday cover
- Catherine Burns - Weekends, occasional sport and reporter
- Natalie Jamieson - Chief Entertainment Reporter
- Frances Cronin - Deputy Entertainment Reporter
- Sinead Garvan - Deputy Entertainment Reporter
- Tamasin Ford - Weekends and reporter, occasional sport
- Duncan Middleton - Weekends and reporter
- Duncan Crawford - Occasional weekends and reporter
- Greg Dawson - Weekends and sport reporter / reader. Also news reporter
- Sima Kotecha - US Reporter in Los Angeles
- Rebecca Pukiello - Reporter, occasional night news reader
- Jim Reed - Reporter
- Maddie Savage - Reporter, former reporter for CBBC
CBBC is the brand name used for the BBC's children's television programmes, and currently specifically refers to those programmes aimed at children between the ages of 6 and 12...
's NewsroundNewsround is a BBC children's news programme, which has run continuously since 4 April 1972, and was one of the world's first television news magazines aimed specifically at children...
- Dan Whitworth - Technology Reporter
- Steve Blears - North-West of England Reporter
- Greg Cochorane - Music Reporter
- Anna Lee - Regional reporter
- Chi Chi Izundu - Reporter
- Georgina Bowman - Reporter
- Briar Burley - Reporter
- Tracey Ollerenshaw - Reporter
- Nomia Iqbal - Reporter
- Satwant Pandher - Reporter
- Nesta McGregor - Reporter
Sport Presenters
- Carrie Davis
Carrie Nicole Prideaux is currently a sportsreader on the The Chris Moyles Show on BBC Radio 1 in the United Kingdom.-Biography:...
- The Chris Moyles Show and Newsbeat
- Mark Chapman
Andrew Mark Chapman , also known as Chappers and Chopper, is the sports newsreader and Mills' sidekick on The Scott Mills Show on BBC Radio 1 in the afternoon.-Early life:...
- The Scott Mills Show and during the Greg James slot
- David Garrido
David Garrido is a journalist who works for the BBC. His regular job is presenting the sport during Newsbeat on BBC Radio One. He also occasionally presents sport on BBC News and BBC World News. This was his main job until taking up his job on Newsbeat...
- Newsbeat reporter
- Alison Mitchell
Alison Mitchell is an English sports broadcaster. She is a reporter for Test Match Special, and a reporter and commentator for BBC Radio 5 Live and Five Live Sports Extra.-BBC career:...
- Newsbeat reporter
- Jamie Broughton - Weekend breakfast sports reader
Editors
Newsbeats current editor and controller is Rod McKenzie, himself a former presenter of the programme and the news presenter on the
Simon MayoSimon Andrew Hicks Mayo is an English radio presenter, who has worked for BBC Radio since 1981. Mayo has been presenter of a BBC Radio Five Live weekday afternoon programme since May 2001....
breakfast show on Radio 1 from . Newsbeat's first editor was Mike Chaney - hired from
The SunThe Sun is a daily tabloid newspaper published in the United Kingdom and Ireland with the second highest circulation of any daily English-language newspaper in the world and the biggest circulation within the UK, standing at an average of 2,986,000 copies a day between January and June 2008 and...
by the then Director-General to inject a populist flavour to the news coverage of Radio 1.
Other current editors include:
- Toby Sealey
- Adrian Pearce
- Angela Clarke
- Tom Bateman
- Debbie Randle
- Duncan Middleton
- Debbie Ramsay
- Jack Baine
- Georgina Bowman
- Helen Perry
Location
In keeping with its specific targeting of young audiences, Newsbeat has its own set of reporters based at
Yalding HouseYalding House is a building at 152–156 Great Portland Street, London, England, where BBC Radio 1 has been based since 1996.Yalding House is also home to BBC 1Xtra, the digital sister station of BBC Radio 1, and is the production base for both stations' news output: 1Xtra News and Radio 1's...
in
Central LondonThe term Central London refers to the districts of London which are considered closest to the centre. There is no conventional definition, nor any official one, for the entire area that can be called "central London". Central London covers about 10 square miles on areas both north and south of the...
(as opposed to the main Newsroom
BBC Television CentreBBC Television Centre at White City in West London is the headquarters of BBC Television. Officially opened in June 1960, it was one of the world's first buildings designed specifically for the making and transmission of TV programmes...
, where most BBC News operations come from). The team's reporters are themselves young, and often report on the location of the big news stories of the day.
Bulletins
Newsbeats shorter bulletins are usually every hour (on the half-hour) weekdays, plus at various times throughout the evening and weekends. There are also extra bulletins on the hour at 7am, 8am and 5pm. A Radio 1 News schedule is available in a copy of the weekly publication Radio TimesRadio Times is the BBC's weekly television and radio programme listings magazine. It also provides on-line listings.-History and publication:...
. In all, 9 million people a week hear the news on Radio 1 through Newsbeat
.
Newsbeat can be heard on Radio 1 at:
- 0430
- 0530
- 0630
- 0700
- 0730
- 0800
- 0830
- 0930
- 1030
- 1130 (Entertainment & Programme trailer)
- 1200 (Entertainment News)
- 1245 (Full-length Programme)
- 1330 (Short Bulletin)
- 1430
- 1530
- 1630
- 1700 (Short Update & Programme trailer)
- 1745 (Full-length Programme)
- 1830 (Entertainment News)
- 2200
There are close ties between Newsbeat
and 1xtra News
(formerly known as TX), the informal news service provided to listeners of BBC Radio's digital-only
urbanUrban culture is the culture of towns and cities. All over the world, past and present, these settlements have behaviors and cultural elements that separate them from otherwise comparable rural areas....
music station,
1XtraBBC 1Xtra is a digital radio station in the United Kingdom from the BBC specialising in new black music, sometimes referred to as urban music. Launched at 18:00 on16 August 2002, it had been codenamed Network X during the consulation period and is the sister station to BBC Radio 1...
.
History
Newsbeat was launched in 1973 in response to the launch of a network of commercial radio stations across the
UKThe United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe. It is an island country, spanning an archipelago including Great Britain, the northeastern part of Ireland, and many small islands...
which supplied a news service very different from the style of traditional BBC News. The programme's first presenter was the Radio 1 DJ Ed "Stewpot" Stewart and he was succeeded by
Lawrie MayerLawrie Mayer is a British journalist who has worked with the BBC across most television news programmes. His last main presenting role was of South East Today for BBC News, until he resigned citing a culture of bullying at the BBC in the South East News department.Mayer was a presenter of the BBC's...
and
Richard SkinnerRichard Skinner is a British radio and television broadcaster.He is the only presenter to have fronted the three BBC 'flagship' programmes Whistle Test, Top of the Pops and Top 40 show. -Early career:...
.
Newsbeat's Oddbox
In 2007, Newsbeat's Oddbox
was launched. A 4 minute video, which looks at the week's strangest news, presented by Dominic ByrneDominic Anthony Byrne is a newsreader for BBC Radio 1 - notably The Chris Moyles Show and presenter on the BBC News Channel-Biography:...
and Tulip Mazumdar when he is away. It is available to watch at www.bbc.co.uk/oddnews, the Radio 1 Newsbeat website and BBC Red Button.
Newsbeat's Imaging Package
BBC Radio 1 has uses Music4 for Newsbeat jingles, as it does for it's station ID jingles and The Chris Moyles Show. Music4 have uploaded the 2000,2002 and 2007 packages on their website. The latest imaging package was composed in December 2008,and was first heard on air on Monday 12th January 2009. There was an update on this in June 2009, when BBC Radio 1 updated their station sound to 'BBC Radio 1', instead of just 'Radio 1'.
External links