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The BBC Nine O'Clock News was a BBC News programme that was the Corporation's flagship news programme. It was launched on 14 September 1970 and ran until 13 October 2000, when it was replaced by the BBC Ten O'Clock News.
Final title sequence, 1999–2000
A bulletin presented by John Humphrys and Julia Somerville. The bulletin design was in use from 1985 to 1988.
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BBC News is an operational business division of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs in the UK and around the world. 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 has over 5,500 Journalists working across its output including in 50 foreign news bureaus where more than 250 foreign correspondents are stationed.
Television News moved to BBC Television Centre in September 1969.
Angela Rippon, pictured in 1983, became the first female news presenter in 1975.
The combined newsroom for domestic television and radio was opened at Television Centre in West London in 1998.
The new newsroom in Broadcasting House