Number of employees 3,500 (2,000 are journalists) Website BBC News is an operational of the British Broadcasting Corporation () responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs. The department is the world's largest broadcast news organisation and generates about 120 hours of radio and television output each day, as well as online news coverage. The service maintains 50 foreign news bureaux with more than 250 correspondents around the world. Has been Director of News and Current Affairs since April 2013. The department's annual budget is in excess of £350 million; it has 3,500 staff, 2,000 of whom are journalists. BBC News' domestic, global and online news divisions are housed within the largest live newsroom in Europe, in in central London.

Parliamentary coverage is produced and broadcast from studios in in London. Through the, the BBC also has regional centres across England, as well as national news centres in, and.

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All nations and English regions produce their own local news programmes and other current affairs and sport programmes. The BBC is a quasi-autonomous corporation authorised by, making it operationally independent of the government, who have no power to appoint or dismiss its director-general, and required to report impartially. As with all major media outlets, though, it has been accused of political bias from across the political spectrum, both within the UK and abroad. Contents • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • History [ ] Early years [ ] “ This is London calling – 2LO calling. Here is the first general news bulletin, copyright by,, and. Need For Speed Rivals Product Code Free.

” — BBC news programme opening during the 1920s The broadcast its first radio bulletin from radio station on 14 November 1922. Wishing to avoid competition, newspaper publishers persuaded the government to ban the BBC from broadcasting news before 7 PM, and to force it to use copy instead of reporting on its own. On Easter weekend in 1930 (18 April), this reliance on newspaper wire services left the radio news service with no information to report after saying There is no news today.

Piano music was played instead. The BBC gradually gained the right to edit the copy and, in 1934, created its own news operation.

However, it could not broadcast news before 6 PM until. Gaumont British and Movietone cinema had been broadcast on the TV service since 1936, with the BBC producing its own equivalent programme from January 1948. A weekly Children's Newsreel was inaugurated on 23 April 1950, to around 350,000 receivers. The network began simulcasting its radio news on television in 1946, with a still picture of. Televised bulletins began on 5 July 1954, broadcast from leased studios within in London. [ ] The public's interest in television and live events was stimulated by in 1953. It is estimated that up to 27 million people viewed the programme in the UK, overtaking radio's audience of 12 million for the first time.

Those live pictures were fed from 21 cameras in central London to for transmission, and then on to other UK transmitters opened in time for the event. That year, there were, rising to over three million the following year, and four and a half million by 1955. 1950s [ ] Television news, although physically separate from its radio counterpart, was still firmly under radio news' control – correspondents provided reports for both outlets–and that first bulletin, shown on 5 July 1954 on the then and presented by, involved his providing narration off-screen while stills were shown. This was then followed by the customary Television Newsreel with a recorded commentary by (and on other occasions by ). It was revealed that this had been due to producers fearing a with visible facial movements would distract the viewer from the story.