Current affairs (news format) Current affairs (news format) Current affairs is a genre of broadcast journalism where the emphasis is on detailed analysis and discussion of news stories that have recently occurred or are ongoing at the time of broadcast. This differs from regular news broadcasts that place emphasis on news reports presented for simple presentation as soon as possible, often with a minimum of analysis. It is also different from the news magazine show format, in that the events are discussed immediately. The UK's Office programmes such as "This World", "Panorama", "Real Story", "BBC Scotland Investigates", "Spotlight", "Week In Week Out", and "Inside
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