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It wasn't until 1957 that the event was televised. Songs of Praise (1961 – present) – Every year songs of Praise celebrates advent Sunday's leading up to Christmas. Text Santa (2011-2015) Star Over Bethlehem (1977, 1979, 1981) - A live satellite transmission that featured Christmas music from around the world.
Debut of Noel's Christmas Presents on BBC1, presented by Noel Edmonds. Christmas Day highlights on ITV include the network television premieres of The BFG and Down and Out in Beverly Hills. The children's series Playbus is renamed Playdays. The show's name is changed after the BBC received a complaint from the National Playbus Association.
January. 1 January. BBC1's New Year's Eve special Live into 85, broadcast from Gleneagles Hotel in Scotland, ends broadcasting in England, Wales and Northern Ireland as scheduled 40 minutes earlier than in Scotland after a series of disasters brought on by poor organisation from the production team. [1]
20–21 July – Live transmission from the Moon with the landing of Apollo 11; at 03:56 BST on 21 July, Neil Armstrong steps onto the surface. [5] BBC television makes its first overnight broadcast to provide coverage. Footage of the event is reported to have been seen by 22 million UK viewers on 21 July (720 million worldwide).
1 July – Launch of the BBC's Japanese News and Information Service. 3 July – Gerry Goldwyre wins the 1994 series of MasterChef on BBC1. 4 July – Debut of the comedy panel show Room 101 on BBC2, presented by Nick Hancock. Bob Monkhouse is the first guest to appear on the show.
1 March – The monopoly on listings magazines ends with the deregulation of TV listings. Before today, Radio Times published only BBC listings and TVTimes ITV only (and from 1982, Channel 4, including S4C in a pull-out supplement Sbec). However, from this day, they can carry listings for all channels.
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Originally publicised as the last ever episode, it draws 24.35 million viewers, the largest ever audience for a sitcom in the UK and discounting the funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales, the following year, the biggest UK television audience of the 1990s. However, the show returns for three subsequent specials, one shown each Christmas from 2001.