BBC London entirely, while a new programme, "South East Today" was to be created for the new South East region. BBC London, as it came to be called, replaced the long-running "Newsroom South East". Greater London and its environs have had a regional BBC television news service for many decades, but the boundaries of the region have always been somewhat nebulous due to the coverage areas of the transmitters used, as television signals do not tend to stick neatly to administrative or historical boundaries. Therefore, while the main focus of "regional" news coverage for this area has always been on the capital
BBC Radio London in 2005 in the London area but it can be accessed within the UK and Ireland by manual tuning. On 6 October 2015 BBC London 94.9 was re-branded as BBC Radio London. Unlike most BBC Local Radio stations in England, BBC Radio stations based in Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales (through BBC Radio Cymru) and the national radio service BBC Asian Network, the station is one of the two BBC Radio stations in the UK that does not simulcast overnight programmes from BBC Radio 5 live, alongside BBC Radio Wales, which broadcasts programming simulcast from the BBC World Service during