Timeline of The BBC - 2000s

2000s

  • 2000
    • 15 September – Final edition of Breakfast News on BBC One and BBC News 24, the last conventional news broadcast in the morning.
    • 2 October – The first edition of Breakfast is broadcast, the new morning show on BBC One and News 24 from 6:00–9:30. (9:00 on BBC News 24), from daily.
    • 15 October – Final edition of the BBC Nine O'Clock News on BBC One. Next day the programme controversially moved to Ten O'Clock News.
    • 16 October – Oxfordshire, once part of the South East, becomes part of South Today.
  • 2001
    • 3 March – Bomb explodes outside Television Centre. The blast was later attributed to dissident Irish Republican terrorists and it is suggested the BBC Panorama programme which named individuals as participants in the Omagh bomb was the motive.
    • 3 September – Kent and Sussex get their own news programme, South East Today.
    • 1 October – BBC London is launched, replacing Newsroom South East.
    • 19 November – Last showing of current BBC Two idents. These set of idents would have ended in 1997 with BBC One's ident change but due to popularity the 1991 idents continued only with a new BBC logo and some newer ident sets. The new idents were Ivory 2's, interacting in a yellow world, with Purple box logo, the first BBC Channel to have one.
  • 2002
    • 11 February – CBBC Channel and CBeebies begin broadcasting on the major digital television platforms: Freeview (digital terrestrial), digital cable and Sky Digital (digital satellite).
    • 2 March – BBC Four is launched at 19:00 in a simulcast with BBC Two. It replaces BBC Knowledge.
    • 11 March – BBC 6 Music is launched.
    • 29 March – BBC One rebrands with the controversial Rhythm and Movement Idents, including dancers in red dancing in different locations. The red box logo was also used for these idents.
  • 2003
    • 9 February – BBC Three is launched at 19:00 in a simulcast with BBC Two. It replaces BBC Choice.
    • 8 December – BBC News 24 relaunched again with a new set and titles, as well as a new Breaking News sting. Networked news on BBC One and Two remains with the same titles though the set was redesigned in a similar style to that of the new News 24.
  • 2004
    • 28 January – Publication of the Hutton Inquiry, and subsequent resignation of the Chairman Gavyn Davies.
    • 30 January – Resignation of the Director General, Greg Dyke. Mark Byford takes over as acting Director General.
    • 16 February – Network news titles relaunched in the style of BBC News 24, introduced two months earlier.
    • 17 May – Appointment of Michael Grade as new Chairman
    • 21 May – Appointment of Mark Thompson as new Director General
    • 5 July – 50th Anniversary of television news broadcasts.
    • 1 October – BBC Technology, incorporating the BBC's Broadcast Engineering division, is sold to Siemens AG Business Services for approximately £200m, and a £2bn, 10 year outsourcing contract.
  • 2005
    • 20 March – Mark Thompson announces staff of 27,000 to be cut by 3,780.
    • 23 May – Over one third of staff join strike in response to job cuts n:BBC drops programmes as third of staff join strike.
    • 1 August – BBC Broadcast, formerly Broadcasting & Presentation and responsible for the playout and branding of all BBC Channels, is sold to Creative Broadcast Services, owned by the Macquarie Capital Alliance Group and Macquarie Bank. It is renamed Red Bee Media on 31 October.
    • December – Czech and Polish sections of the BBC World Service cease to exist. Eight other sections are to follow soon.
    • Doctor Who Returns to the air in its 42nd year
  • 2006
    • 27 May – The BBC's first scheduled HDTV broadcast on BBC HD
    • 14 August – The One Show first broadcast on BBC One and was a modern day version of highly popular series Nationwide. Popular journalism returned to BBC One early evening schedule.
    • 1 September – BBC Entertainment replaces BBC Prime in global markets.
    • 7 October – BBC One rebrands from the Rhythm and Movement idents to the current "Circle" Idents, which acts as a link to the classic globe icon used for almost 40 years and as a symbol of unity.
    • 28 November – Resignation of Chairman Michael Grade, to join ITV.
    • 31 December – The BBC's then-current Royal Charter and Agreement expired.
  • 2007
    • 22 January – BBC News 24 re-relaunched with new titles and new Astons.
    • 18 February – BBC Two rebrands from the yellow 2's, to the current Window on the World 2's.
    • 1 April – The Sky at Night celebrates 50 years with a special anniversary edition.
    • July – BBC Knowledge launched as a global channel by BBC Worldwide.
    • 3 September – CBBC identity relaunched, with its third marketing campaign since the launch of the CBBC Channel.
    • 20 October – BBC Switch teenage block of shows is launched to cater for the under-served 12–16 year olds.
    • 25 December – BBC iPlayer an online service for watching previously aired shows is launched
  • 2008
    • 22 January – BBC Three has its identity relaunched, showcasing new shows such as Lily Allen and Friends.
    • 21 April – Name changes for BBC News 24 and BBC World. Now BBC News and BBC World News.
    • 19 September – BBC Alba, a Scottish Gaelic language digital television channel, launched through a partnership between BBC and MG ALBA.
    • 16 October – Blue Peter reaches fifty years old on BBC One with a live celebration at BBC Television Centre.
  • 2009
    • 14 January – BBC's Persian language news channel was launched.

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