Sixty Minutes (TV series)
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In the United Kingdom, Sixty Minutes was a BBC national, international and regional news hour that ran each weekday evening from 17:40 from 24 October 1983[1] to 27 July 1984[2] on BBC1. It replaced the Nationwide programme and integrated the BBC regional news programmes and weather forecasts into a single magazine programme. [3]
The first 13 minutes of news was read by Jan Leeming, Moira Stuart or Richard Whitmore, then followed 22 minutes from BBC regional news (such as Look North, South Today, Spotlight, Scene Around Six) and then the final 25 minutes was a news magazine format presented by Sarah Kennedy, Sally Magnusson, Nick Ross and Desmond Wilcox.
The most notable feature of the program was the seamless integration of the regional news programmes into the hour. The national synchorisation of television signals allowed cross-fading between the network programme and the segments produced by the BBC regional news studios without having to fade to a black frame, something the ITV network could not do for another 20 years.
The show was not well received and was replaced in September 1984 with the BBC Six O'Clock News hour.
[edit] References
- ^ TV World Sixty Minutes Launch. Retrieved on 2007-04-16.
- ^ TV & Radio Bits - Key Dates. Retrieved on 2007-04-16.
- ^ TV & Radio Bits - Bits and Pieces - Nationwide. Retrieved on 2007-04-16.
