Adrian Chiles was an integral part in BBC Three's African Cup of Nations coverage. He was also a member of the BBC's World Cup team often bringing viewers late night highlights. He was a main presenter of the BBC's Euro 2008 coverage and was one of the anchors of the morning 2008 Olympics coverage from Beijing. After news media speculation suggesting that the BBC wished to increase the popularity of "The One Show" on Fridays by introducing Chris Evans alongside Christine Lampard in an extended one-hour format, Chiles was said to be discussing a contract with ITV. After Evans was confirmed as
Rapport (TV programme) with the launch of the second television channel, TV2. It went out between 19:10 and 19:30 each weekday following a 10-minute news bulletin from "TV-nytt" at 19:00 and preceding a longer "TV-nytt" programme at 19:30 on TV1. "Rapport" at this time focused on the in-depth coverage of selected news items. It was often considered left-leaning, thereby earning for TV2 as a whole the nickname of "the red channel". As part of a large-scale reorganization of news programming in 1972, the news on TV1 was rebranded as "Aktuellt" (in fact, a revival of its original name), with bulletins at 18:00 and