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PICTURED: a still from a BBC Breakfast sting.

BBC News Reith launch

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BBC News has updated its on-screen graphics/title sequences, adopting the new, bespoke font, BBC Reith: “We’ve changed the design of our on-screen graphics to make them clearer and easier to read, and to bring us in line with BBC News Online, BBC Weather and BBC Sport.”

On this page, the latest updates on the rollout of the new graphics, from a national perspective.

RELATED PAGE: an overview of what’s going on in the regions is available HERE.

NOTE: the images featured on this page were taken from BBC iPlayer and are not high quality.

Latest National Updates

16th July 2019, 8am: the updated BBC Breakfast logo and graphics. Note the addition of seconds to the live clock within the opening titles.

PICTURED: BBC Breakfast opening titles.
PICTURED: BBC Breakfast opening titles.
PICTURED: BBC Breakfast opening titles.
PICTURED: BBC Breakfast lower-third.
PICTURED: BBC Breakfast lower-third and live/location bug.
PICTURED: BBC Breakfast opening titles.
PICTURED: BBC Breakfast lower-third.

16th July 2019, 5am: The Briefing titles remain unchanged – Helvetica.

16th July 2019, 12am: Newsday titles updated:

PICTURED: Newsday opening titles.

15th July 2019, 10.30pm: logo updated on BBC News at Ten titles. No change (yet) for Newsnight.

PICTURED: BBC News at Ten opening titles.
PICTURED: BBC Newsnight opening titles.

15th July 2019, 8pm: other items of note this evening – the logo badge on the BBC News at Six, Beyond 100 Days and the generic titles for the 8pm programme. Other than that, the lower-thirds and graphics are largely in line with what we’ve seen earlier in the day.

PICTURED: BBC News at Six opening titles.
PICTURED: Beyond 100 Days opening titles.
PICTURED: BBC News opening titles.

15th July 2019, 5pm: the new logo badge features in the BBC News at Five titles.

PICTURED: BBC News at Five opening titles.

15th July 2019, 2pm: Afternoon Live gets the Reith treatment:

PICTURED: Afternoon Live studio presentation. Presenter: Simon McCoy.
PICTURED: Afternoon Live opening titles.
PICTURED: Afternoon Live studio presentation, visual journalism, lower-third and ticker. Presenter: Simon McCoy.
PICTURED: Afternoon Live live/location bug, lower-third and ticker. Reporter: John Watson.

15th July 2019, 1pm: the BBC News at One:

PICTURED: BBC News at One opening titles.
PICTURED: BBC News at One live/location bug. Reporter: Joe Wilson.
PICTURED: BBC News at One lower-third. Reporter: Gary O'Donoghue.
PICTURED: BBC News at One lower-third.
PICTURED: BBC News at One lower-third.
PICTURED: BBC News at One lower-third.

15th July 2019, 11.46am: the updated BBC Business graphics:

PICTURED: BBC Business sting.
PICTURED: Newsroom Live lower-third and ticker.
PICTURED: Newsroom Live studio presentation, visual journalism, lower-third and ticker. Presenter: Ben Thompson.
PICTURED: Newsroom Live studio presentation, lower-third and ticker. Presenter: Ben Thompson.
PICTURED: Newsroom Live studio presentation, visual journalism, lower-third and ticker. Presenter: Ben Thompson.
PICTURED: Newsroom Live studio presentation, visual journalism, lower-third and ticker. Presenter: Ben Thompson.

15th July 2019, 11.46am: another outing for the Breaking News lower-third:

PICTURED: Newsroom Live studio presentation, lower-third and ticker. Breaking news example. Presenter: Joanna Gosling.
PICTURED: Newsroom Live studio presentation, lower-third and ticker. Breaking news example. Presenter: Joanna Gosling.

15th July 2019, 11.26am: the first airing of the new Breaking News sting and associated lower-third:

PICTURED: Newsroom Live Breaking News sting.
PICTURED: Newsroom Live Breaking News sting.
PICTURED: Newsroom Live lower-third and ticker. Breaking news example.

15th July 2019, 11am: titles update for Newsroom Live. Even the live electronic banner in the newsroom (within the opening titles) gets the Reith treatment:

PICTURED: Newsroom Live opening titles.
PICTURED: Newsroom Live opening titles.
PICTURED: Newsroom Live studio presentation and visual journalism. Presenter: Joanna Gosling.
PICTURED: Newsroom Live lower-third, ticker and live/location bug. Reporter: Adam Fleming.

15th July 2019, 10am: the Victoria Derbyshire show had already updated its graphics some months ago. They had clearly been designed with the new lower-third BBC News graphics in mind. The programme’s opening title sequence still features a Gill Sans BBC News logo.

PICTURED: Victoria Derbyshire opening titles.
PICTURED: Victoria Derbyshire studio presentation, lower-third and ticker. Presenter: Victoria Derbyshire.
PICTURED: Victoria Derbyshire lower-third.
PICTURED: Victoria Derbyshire lower-third.
PICTURED: Victoria Derbyshire studio presentation and lower-third.

15th July 2019, 9.43am: we now see how the BBC Sport graphics slot into the lower-third arrangement:

PICTURED: BBC News at Nine sport 2-screen graphic and lower-third; news lower-third and ticker. Presenter: Sally Nugent. Reporter: John Watson.
PICTURED: BBC News at Nine sport lower-third and live/location bug; news lower-third and ticker. Reporter: John Watson.
PICTURED: BBC News at Nine sport lower-third and live/location bug; news lower-third and ticker. Reporter: John Watson.
PICTURED: BBC News at Nine sport lower-third; news lower-third and ticker.
PICTURED: BBC News at Nine sport lower-third; news lower-third and ticker.
PICTURED: BBC News at Nine sport lower-third; news lower-third and ticker.

15th July 2019, 9.31am: promotional trails also have a new endboard animation.

PICTURED: BBC News promotional trail - Hay Festival: Culture

15th July 2019, 9.30am: new promo: Follow the Story.

PICTURED: BBC News promotional trail - Follow the Story.
PICTURED: BBC News promotional trail - Follow the Story.

15th July 2019, 9am: the BBC News at Nine is the first programme to use the new font. Title sequence remains unchanged, except for the logo badge (and yes, Gill Sans is still there, for place names).

PICTURED: BBC News at Nine lower-third.
PICTURED: BBC News at Nine lower-third.
PICTURED: BBC News at Nine opening titles.
PICTURED: BBC News at Nine studio presentation, lower-third and ticker. Presenter: Carrie Gracie.
PICTURED: BBC News at Nine lower-third.
PICTURED: BBC News at Nine visual journalism.
PICTURED: BBC News at Nine live/location bug, lower-third and ticker. Reporter: John Watson.
PICTURED: BBC News at Nine live/location bug, lower-third and ticker. Reporter: John Watson.
PICTURED: BBC News at Nine 2-screen graphic, live/location bug, lower-third and ticker. Reporter: John Watson.

15th July 2019, 8.58am: BBC Reith launches on the BBC News Channel with an updated Now/Next graphic and the new countdown sequence. Countdown music seems unchanged and the graphic format is as previously, albeit with an updated logo badge and the font change for the numeric countdown:

PICTURED: BBC News Channel next/later graphic.
PICTURED: BBC News Channel countdown.

15th July 2019, 8.27am: as we reported last night on our Twitter feed, BBC London had decamped to the green screen set in Studio A over the weekend. The programme was still coming from Studio A this morning:

PICTURED: BBC London in Studio A. Presenter: Tolu Adeoye.

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PICTURED: new BBC Breakfast titles. COPYRIGHT: BBC.