Wales Today

Wales Today is the BBC's national news programme for Wales, broadcast on BBC One Wales from the headquarters of BBC Wales in Llandaff, Cardiff. It is the world's longest-running television news programme.

The programme can be watched in any part of the UK (and Europe) on digital satellite channel 972 on the BBC UK regional TV on satellite service. Selected video packages from the programme are available on the BBC news website.

History
The programme began at 6:10pm on Monday 17 September 1962. Its predecessor, a short News from Wales bulletin, started in 1957 and was originally presented by Michael Aspel. The new programme, originally presented by Brian Hoey, shared a 25-minute timeslot for regional news with Points West from Bristol - at the time, both programmes were broadcast to Wales and the West of England from the Wenvoe transmitter near Cardiff.

By February 1964, two new television regions, BBC Wales and BBC West, had been created with the addition of a new channel (13) for Wales on Wenvoe. Wales Today thus became a 25-minute programme broadcast only to Wales while Points West was only broadcast to the West of England. In 1969, separate UHF transmitters at Wenvoe (Wales) and Mendip (West) meant complete separation, except for overlap areas in South Wales.

Bulletins
On weekdays, Wales Today broadcasts six three-minute bulletins at 27 and 57 minutes past each hour during BBC Breakfast. An 15-minute lunchtime programme airs at 1:30pm with a short update broadcast at 3pm. The main half-hour edition of the programme airs between 6:30pm and 7:00pm. A short 30-second headline update is broadcast during 8pm News summary with the late night bulletin airing at 10:25pm, following the BBC News at Ten.

Four bulletins air during the weekend: a lunchtime bulletin on Saturday, early evening bulletins on Saturday & Sunday and a late night bulletin on Sundays, following the BBC News at Ten.

From November 2001, a fifteen-minute news bulletin was broadcast on the digital opt-out service BBC 2W, first as 2W News and Sport and later, Wales Today on 2W. The bulletin was axed in 2007.

Main anchors

 * Jamie Owen


 * Lucy Owen
 * Sian Lloyd

Bulletin presenters

 * Tomos Dafydd (also reporter/stand-in main anchor)
 * Ross Harries (also reporter/stand-in main anchor)
 * Rebecca John (also reporter)
 * Sachin Krishnan


 * Garry Owen (Weekend presenter)
 * Jenny Rees (also reporter)
 * Nicola Smith (also reporter)

Sports presenters/reporters

 * Ashleigh Crowter


 * Claire Summers

Weather presenters/forecasters

 * Derek Brockway (Chief meteorologist)
 * Behnaz Akhgar (Breakfast/weekend/stand-in)


 * Sue Charles (Breakfast/weekend/stand-in)

Reporters
General Reporters
 * Caroline Evans
 * Elin Gwilym (also Newyddion reporter)
 * Carwyn Jones
 * Rhodri Lewis

District Reporters
 * Abigail Neal (West Wales)
 * Nick Palit (South East Wales)
 * Roger Pinney (North West Wales)
 * Matthew Richard (North East Wales)

Specialist Correspondents
 * Hywel Griffith (Health Correspondent)
 * Nick Servini (Business Correspondent)
 * Iolo ap Dafydd (Environment Correspondent)

Political Correspondents


 * Betsan Powys (Political Editor)
 * David Cornock (Parliamentary Correspondent)
 * Vaughan Roderick (Welsh Affairs Editor)


 * John Stevenson (North Wales Political Reporter)
 * Arwyn Jones (Political reporter)

Former presenters
Former presenters of Wales Today include Brian Hoey, John Darran, Tim Rogers, Gail Foley, Noreen Bray, Sara Edwards, Vincent Kane, Patrick Hannan, Chris Morgan, Jason Mohammad, David Parry-Jones, Bob Humphrys, Rees Jones, chief reporter Penny Roberts and long-serving bulletin presenter Jayne James (née Case).