BBC 2 News 1964 – 1991

Newsroom started on 20th April 1964. Originally broadcast around 11pm, on 1st January 1968 it was moved to 7pm and extended to a full 30 minutes, The programme was axed on 29th December 1972.

News Extra 1973

News Extra replaced Newsroom on 1st January 1973, and continued to be BBC 2 30min news bulletin. The last episodes was broadcast on 29th August 1975, and replaced by News Night: Not to be confused with the 1980 NewsNight. This was axed on Friday 17th September 1976 and replaced the follow Monday with a straight BBC 2 bulletin.

Newsday 1974

Newsday started on 16th September 1974 and continued until 23rd June 1978. Newsday included a short News summary before taking a longer look at the vital issues of the day. The original host was Robin Day, by 1975 Richard Kershaw took over the role.

BBC2 News 1976

From Autumn 1976 Until October 1986, BBC2 broadcast two news bulletins a day. The first was a early evening news summary with subtitles. Initially there was no fixed time for this bulletin but by 1984 it had settled down to a slot at around 5.30 and was the first programme of the evening. The Second bulletin was late at night, however from January 1980 Newsnight had replaced it. In 1981 the bulletins were no longer branded as “News on 2”. In October 1986 BBC Daytime news summaries created a new uniform look for the bulletins, with nearly all BBC 2 news now being relegated to weekday daytime only, expect for news view on a Saturday evening.

Examples of programme graphics

Some shots from the studio and gallery

News Review

BBC2’s Sunday evening round-up of the week’s big stories, subtitled for the deaf. The theme music was “Roadwalk” by the legendary bandleader, Syd Dale. The programmes started on 26th April 1964

News View

BBC2 scrapped the Sunday evening News Review as a separate programme and incorporated it into a new Saturday evening 40 minute programme called News View from 4th January 1986. The last edition was on 2nd March 1991.