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An Omnibus in broadcasting, (sometimes called an omnibus edition) is a compilation of daily episodes that is usually broadcast during the following weekend. Such programmes that are or have been transmitted in omnibus format in Britain
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
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Radio:

Omnibus is also the name of a software package used for television station control and automation. Brookside was the first soap to have an Omnibus edition.






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An Omnibus in broadcasting, (sometimes called an omnibus edition) is a compilation of daily episodes that is usually broadcast during the following weekend. Such programmes that are or have been transmitted in omnibus format in Britain
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
 include:

Television:
  • Emmerdale
    Emmerdale

    Emmerdale, known as Emmerdale Farm until 1989, is a United Kingdom soap opera that has aired on ITV since 1972. It is set in the fictional village of Emmerdale in West Yorkshire, England, and was created by Kevin Laffan, with Keith Richardson serving as Executive Producer since 1986 and Anita Turner as Series Producer from Janu...
     (regionally until 2000, when aired on ITV2
    ITV2

    ITV2 is a 24 hour a day free-to-air entertainment television channel in the United Kingdom owned by ITV Digital Channels Ltd, a division of ITV plc....
    ).
  • Coronation Street
    Coronation Street

    Coronation Street is an award-winning soap opera created by Tony Warren. It is one of the longest-running television programmes in the United Kingdom, first broadcast on 9 December 1960, made by Granada Television and broadcast in all regions of ITV almost throughout its existence....
     (regionally until 2000, when aired on ITV2
    ITV2

    ITV2 is a 24 hour a day free-to-air entertainment television channel in the United Kingdom owned by ITV Digital Channels Ltd, a division of ITV plc....
    ).
  • EastEnders
    EastEnders

    EastEnders is a popular and award-winning television soap opera, first broadcast in the United Kingdom on BBC One on 19 February 1985. It currently ranks within the top of the most watched shows in the United Kingdom....
     (1985-1994, 1994-Present).
  • Doctor Who
    Doctor Who

    Doctor Who is a British Science fiction on television programme produced by the BBC. The programme depicts the adventures of a mysterious alien Time travel known as "Doctor " who travels in his space and time-ship, the TARDIS, which normally appears from the exterior to be a blue 1950s police box....
     (in the 1970s and 1980's)
  • Hollyoaks
    Hollyoaks

    Hollyoaks is an award winning British television soap opera which was first broadcast on 23 October 1995 on Channel 4. It was originally devised by Phil Redmond, who has also devised shows including Brookside and Grange Hill ....
     (E4 & T4
    T4 (Channel 4)

    T4 is a scheduling slot on Channel 4 from about 09:00 until 14:00 Saturday and 17:00 on Sundays. It also airs on weekdays in the school holidays....
    )
  • Family Affairs
    Family Affairs

    Family Affairs was a United Kingdom soap opera broadcast on Five . It was the second programme to air on the channel on March 30, 1997, the channel's launch night....
     (1997-2002)
  • Brookside
    Brookside

    Brookside, commonly referred to as "Brookie", was a soap opera set in Liverpool, England, introduced with the then new British television network, Channel 4....
     (1991-2003)
  • Home and Away
    Home and Away

    Home and Away is a Logie Award-winning Australian soap opera that has been produced in Sydney by the Seven Network since July 1987. It premiered on 17 January 1988, and is now one of the longest-running series on Australian television and won 34 Logie Awards since 1988....
     (1999-2000 on ITV2
    ITV2

    ITV2 is a 24 hour a day free-to-air entertainment television channel in the United Kingdom owned by ITV Digital Channels Ltd, a division of ITV plc....
    , 1996-2002 on UK Living, 2001-Present on Five).
  • Neighbours
    Neighbours

    Neighbours is a long-running multiple Logie Award-winning Australian soap opera, which first aired in March 1985. The series follows the daily lives of several families who live in the six houses at the end of Ramsay Street, a short cul-de-sac in the fictional middle-class suburb of Erinsborough....
     (1993-2001 on UK Gold, 2008-Present on Five).
  • Knots Landing
    Knots Landing

    Knots Landing is an United States primetime television soap opera that aired from December 27 1979 to May 13 1993 on CBS. Set in a fictitious coastal suburb of Los Angeles in California, the show centered around the lives of four married couples residing in a cul-de-sac, Seaview Circle....
     (1992-1999 on UK Gold).
  • The Bill
    The Bill

    The Bill is a long-running United Kingdom television police procedural, named after a List of slang terms for police officers. It was first broadcast on 16 August, 1983 as a pilot episode, and as a regular series from 16 October, 1984 and transmitted on ITV, at 20:00 on Thursdays and most Wednesdays....
     (?-1999 on Australian Broadcasting Corporation
    Australian Broadcasting Corporation

    The Australian Broadcasting Corporation, commonly referred to as the ABC, is Australia's national Public broadcasting.With a budget of Australian dollar840 million annually, the corporation provides television, radio, online and mobile services throughout metropolitan and regional Australia, as well as overseas through the Australia Net...
     (Australia
    Australia

    Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the southern hemisphere comprising the Australia of the world's smallest continent, the major island of Tasmania, and numerous list of islands of Australia in the Indian Ocean and Pacific Oceans....
    ).


Radio:
  • The Archers
    The Archers

    The Archers is a British radio soap opera Broadcasting on the BBC's main spoken-word radio channel, BBC Radio 4. Originally billed as an "everyday story of country folk", it is the world's longest running radio soap with more than 15,000 episodes broadcast....


Omnibus is also the name of a software package used for television station control and automation. Brookside was the first soap to have an Omnibus edition. The first omnibus edition for Brookside was established in 1991 and continued until the series ended in 2003. EastEnders is the first soap opera to have an omnibus edition from the 1980s onwards, but the term was not used until the 1990s.