06-03-2024, 08:54 AM
(05-03-2024, 11:43 PM)Brekkie Wrote: Budget Day tomorrow and once again it's the BBC2 politics team that cover it. Quite unusual nowadays for a flagship event not to be on BBC but it's been on BBC2 for decades. Just wondering if it was ever on BBC1?
Presumably TV coverage only began when coverage of Parliament began too.
I do remember Children's BBC being shunted over to BBC 2 for the afternoon for the budget (and Children's ITV being dropped entirely, I'm pretty sure). A quick look at Genome shows that it was on BBC 1 throughout the 1980s, even though there were no pictures to show, often billed as a Newsnight special. The first televised Budget in 1990 was the first on BBC 2 and it has stayed on there since.