[DTV]

A few months back, I managed to compile BBC World News schedules from across the ages into a single timeline graphic. I've now tried the same with the BBC News channel. Admittedly, it is less interesting - particularly the 2008-2015 period. Possibly because of this, it was even harder to find schedules for older years than it was for BBC World. Other than a brief period in late-2001, I haven't been able to find any full schedules for the channnel between early 1999 and late 2003 - this has made it hard to precisely date the phasing out of the flag era programming, some of which (UK Today, Europe Direct and Zero 30) definitely continued until at least early 2000.

I have been able to get some details from partial schedules overlayed onto countdowns and from the TV Forum archives, but there are still some gaps. As the margin of error with dates was large with some of them, I've just left them in - hoping that somebody might be able to help. I should also note that this version is 'smoothed' - I've taken out US timeshifts and short-run temporary programmes (e.g. Election related programmes). If I can plug enough of the gaps, I'll finish off a more detailed version, including changes in branding.

Anyway, here it is...



You might need to zoom in a bit to read it!