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BBC News is the BBC's 24 hour rolling news television channel in the United Kingdom. The channel launched as BBC News 24on 9 November 1997 at 17:30 as part of the BBC's foray into digitaldomestic television channels, becoming the first competitor to Sky News, which had been running since 1989.[2]Since then, with several relaunches, an increase in funding andresources from the BBC and improvements in digital televisiontechnology, the channel has been able to diversify content, with twominute looped bulletins available to view via BBC Red Button, BBC News Onlineand the BBC's mobile website, alongside individual weather and sportbulletins. In May 2007 the channel became available for UK viewers toview through the BBC News website through a live stream.In April 2008 the channel was renamed "BBC News" as part of a £550,000rebranding of the BBC's news output, complete with a new studio andpresentation. Its sister services, BBC World was also renamed as "BBC World News" while the national news bulletins as BBC News at One, BBC News at Six and BBC News at Ten.

As a major part of the BBC News department, the channel is based at and broadcast from the News Centre within BBC Television Centre in West London.[3] The channel was named RTS News Channel of the Year in 2006, a first for the channel after five years.