Bio

Background and Format: Launched in 2001 as BBC LDN, BBC London News is the BBC's regional television news programme for Greater London.  The programme is broadcast seven days a week on BBC One in London and the surrounding areas, with short bulletins during BBC Breakfast, after the BBC News at One, and after the BBC News at Ten. The flagship programme airs between 6:30pm and 6:55pm each weekday evening. Weekend bulletins are broadcast on Saturday lunchtime and early evening and on Sunday evening. The area created for the BBC London programme to broadcast now covers a much more tightly-defined area, chiefly Greater London but still including parts of Bedfordshire, Essex, and Hertfordshire in the East of England region and parts of Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire, Kent, Berkshire, Surrey and Sussex in the South East England region. There is also some overlap with the editorial areas of other BBC regions in this part of England. Parts of Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire,Wiltshire, Northamptonshire, Berkshire and Gloucestershire now take an opt-out of South Today, while most of Kent and East Sussex has - since 2001 - been covered by the BBC South East region based in Tunbridge Wells, which produces South East Today. Production company: British Broadcasting Corporation Schedule times: Weekdays: bulletins during BBC Breakfast, 1.30-1.45pm, 6.30-6.55pm and 10.25-10.30pm. There are also four weekend bulletins but these do not have fixed times. Target audience:  London residents of all ages. Stats: We cannot issue audience figures due to contractual restraints. Please visit BARB at www.barb.co.uk Top tips for PRs: The Planning Editor for the News switches on a four week rotation, so every month it will be someone different. But the general email is ldn-planning@bbc.co.uk. If it is an on-the-day story, ie breaking news that day, then call the News Organiser +44 (0)20 7208 9654