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| BBC News 24 |
BBC News 24 is BBC News' 24-hour news television channel in the UK, its international counterpart being BBC World. It first broadcast on November 9, 1997 at 17:30 and at first only cable television subscribers could view the broadcast. In 1998, with the advent of digital television in the UK, satellite viewers were able to view the service. It is now also broadcast on digital terrestrial, as part of the Freeview package, and online, if a UK internet service provider is partnered with the BBC.
Background
The BBC were initially criticised for the cost of running BBC News 24 channel, with so few viewers. Their response was to promote the channel through BBC One and later also BBC Two, by having them simulcast News 24 output at night. This has made BBC News 24 available to non-digital viewers receiving BBC One/Two's analogue terrestrial signals, and this is seen by some as influential (to a certain limited extent) in promoting the take-up of digital television. Following the end of the long running Breakfast with Frost, in the summer of 2005, BBC One simulcast News 24 Sunday, a weekly Sunday morning interview show presented by Peter Sissons. This ended when the replacement to Breakfast with Frost, Sunday AM presented by Andrew Marr began.
Examples of News 24 network broadcasts include the September 11th attacks, the capture of Saddam Hussein and the London bombings of July 7th, 2005.
In September 1999 the European Commission ruled against a complaint by Sky News which argued that the publicly funded News 24 was unfair and illegal under EU law. The EC ruled that the licence fee should be considered state aid but that such aid was justified due to the public service remit of the BBC and that it did not exceed actual costs.
The BBC's 2004 annual report claims that News 24 outperformed Sky News in both weekly and monthly reach in multichannel homes for the January 2004 period, and for the first time in two years moved ahead of Sky News in being perceived as the channel best for news.
News 24 broadcasts from the News Centre in BBC Television Centre, West London.
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