BBC News network newsreader, appeared in vision. 19 September saw the start of the radio news and current affairs programme "The Ten O'clock News". BBC2 started transmission on 20 April 1964, and with it came a new news programme for that channel, "Newsroom". "The World at One", a lunchtime news programme, began on 4 October 1965 on the then Home Service, and the year before "News Review" had started on television. "News Review" was a summary of the week's news, first broadcast on Sunday, 26 April 1964 on BBC 2 and harking back to the weekly "Newsreel Review of the Week", produced
BBC Radio 2 with a 6:55am start up on Sundays. The station closed down at around 12:33am each day. However from Monday 29 September 1975 the closedown hours were scaled back even more, with BBC Radio 2 concluding their day at around 12:10am Mondays to Fridays, and at 12:33am on Saturdays and Sundays. There were exceptions to the rule, especially over Christmas and New Year periods when hours would be temporarily extended. Broadcasting hours would be extended to the 5am2am schedule on Saturday 1 April 1978. BBC Radio 2 became the first national 24-hour radio station in the UK in 1979. The station's