16-12-2023, 06:52 PM
(16-12-2023, 06:38 PM)JLav25 Wrote: I believe it was those two events which led to the launch of the BBC News website. Temporary sites were launched for both before BBC News Online officially launchedYes, that and budgets from 1995 and the 96 Olympics were effectively the pilots for BBC News Online, which then launched the same week as News 24 (the projects being strongly linked, even sharing the flags branding). I suspect they would have wanted to launch the channel for the election, but it wouldn't really matter as very few could watch until the launches of DSAT and DTT in autumn 1998.