12-02-2023, 09:10 PM
The BBC also still officially use the lunchtime/evening/late categories for news bulletins and, when they launched their first lunchtime bulletin in 1960, it was called the Lunchtime News and Cricket Scores, despite being broadcast at 14:00. Indeed, these kinds of terms are used somewhat flexibly by both broadcasters - the BBC Mid-day News was broadcast at 12:45 rather than midday and, although initially branded as just BBC News during its first two summer shift backs (1976, 77), remained the Mid-day News all year from 1978 despite being broadcast at 13:45 in the summer.