BBC 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. According to the BBC, 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.

On air
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 the BBC News Summary at 8:00pm 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.

On air team
N.B. Persons marked with an * are also a stand-in presenter/newsreader.

Presenters

 * News presenters
 * Sian Lloyd – Main presenter/newsreader (alternating)
 * Sachin Krishnan – Newsreader
 * Garry Owen – Newsreader, weekend bulletins
 * Jamie Owen – Main presenter/newsreader
 * Lucy Owen – Main presenter/newsreader (alternating)


 * Weather presenters
 * Behnaz Akhgar
 * Derek Brockway – Chief meteorologist
 * Sue Charles

Correspondents

 * District Correspondents
 * Abigail Neal – West Wales
 * Nick Palit – South East Wales
 * Roger Pinney – North West Wales
 * Matthew Richard – North East Wales


 * News Correspondents
 * Caroline Evans
 * Tomos Dafydd *
 * Elin Gwilym (also Newyddion correspondent)
 * Ross Harries *
 * Rebecca John *
 * Carwyn Jones
 * Rhodri Lewis
 * Jenny Rees *
 * Kate Morgan *
 * Nicola Smith *

Specialist Correspondents
 * David Cornock – Parliamentary
 * Ashleigh Crowter – Sport
 * Owain Clarke – Health
 * Sarah Dickens - Economics
 * Arwyn Jones – Education
 * Nick Servini – Political Editor
 * Tomos Livingstone - Political
 * Vaughan Roderick – Welsh Affairs Editor
 * Brian Meehan – Business
 * Iolo ap Dafydd – Environment
 * John Stevenson – North Wales Political
 * Claire Summers – Sport

Former on air team
Former presenters of Wales Today include: Noreen Bray; John Darran; Sara Edwards; Gail Foley; Jayne James; Rees Jones; Patrick Hannan; Brian Hoey; Bob Humphrys; Vincent Kane; Jason Mohammad; Chris Morgan; David Parry-Jones; Betsan Powys; Penny Roberts; Simon_Pusey; Tim Rogers.