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BBC News

What BBC News chose to cover, what it left out, and how its agenda compares with the rest of the roster.

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How much the agenda changed

Moderate
34.0% day-to-day change

This channel keeps some regular areas of focus while changing enough to follow the daily news cycle.

Stories this channel missed

Several missed
55 missed stories recorded

Number of times this broadcaster did not cover stories that several other channels covered.

Time spent on news stories

79% of analysed airtime

177h 46m of this channel's 224h 15m analysed was identified news stories — ad breaks, weather, sport and trails count as “not news”.

Recent broadcasts

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Wednesday 28 October 2026 · 15:30 GMT

Verified Live

A domestically weighted bulletin dominated by John Healey's first Budget, which took the full 55 minutes 14 seconds. It led on a £100 winter energy payment for 20 million households and a rise in the bank surcharge to 6%, with the OBR's weaker growth and higher inflation forecasts shaping much of the reaction.

1 story · 30m
Wednesday 28 October 2026 · 09:00 GMT

BBC News

A UK-weighted bulletin was led and dominated by John Healey's first Budget, which took 17 minutes 39 seconds of the 26 minutes 29 seconds of stories. The Israel election deadlock received 7 minutes 7 seconds, while a breaking Spanish train crash got 1 minute 43 seconds.

3 stories · 30m
Wednesday 28 October 2026 · 01:00 GMT

BBC News

An internationally weighted bulletin was dominated by Israel's election count, at nine minutes and 25 seconds, and a partial truce in Ukraine, at five minutes and nine seconds. The Israel count led the broadcast, while the remaining four stories each ran under three minutes, with King Charles's Bahamas speech getting 56 seconds.

6 stories · 30m
Wednesday 28 October 2026 · 00:30 GMT

Newscast

A single-story Newscast was led and dominated by Chancellor John Healey's pre-Budget cost of living fixes, which took the entire 22 minutes and 30 seconds of running order airtime. He discussed five everyday fixes and an expected freeze to fuel duty.

1 story · 30m

On screen

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Repeatedly missed categories

Categories where this broadcaster often missed stories that other channels covered.

economy 6 of 15 gaps

This channel missed a relatively high number of stories in this category.

Missed topics:
Inflation (Wednesday 21 October 2026)UK Economy (Tuesday 13 October 2026)Pensions (Tuesday 15 September 2026)UK Economy (Friday 11 September 2026)UK Economy (Wednesday 2 September 2026)British Steel (Thursday 16 July 2026)
immigration 6 of 17 gaps

This channel missed a relatively high number of stories in this category.

Missed topics:
Immigration (Wednesday 21 October 2026)Immigration (Monday 5 October 2026)Immigration (Thursday 24 September 2026)Channel Crossings (Wednesday 23 September 2026)Immigration (Tuesday 15 September 2026)Immigration (Monday 10 August 2026)
society 3 of 7 gaps

This channel missed a relatively high number of stories in this category.

Missed topics:
Emergency Preparedness (Friday 23 October 2026)Grenfell Tower (Wednesday 30 September 2026)Jason Arday (Monday 17 August 2026)

Category trend (last 30 days)

How this channel's coverage changed by category over the past month.

Flagged quotes over time

Contested and charged quotes per hour of analysed airtime. Flagged quotes reflect the language this broadcaster aired, not a judgement of its accuracy.

Distinctive vocabulary

Words and phrases this channel used far more often than the rest of UK TV news over the last 30 days. Distinctive vocabulary describes word choice relative to other channels, not accuracy or bias — terms reflect the stories a channel covered as much as how it framed them.

  1. tough winter 20×+ more often · 29 uses
    “a very tough winter ahead.” BBC News · Wednesday 28 October 2026
  2. braced 8.6× more often · 34 uses
    “So Ukrainians are braced for what could be” BBC News · Wednesday 28 October 2026
  3. investigative 7.3× more often · 38 uses
    “we use forensic investigative techniques” BBC News Now · Tuesday 27 October 2026
  4. disinformation 7.3× more often · 36 uses
    “At a time of growing disinformation...” BBC News · Wednesday 28 October 2026
  5. twist 4.4× more often · 32 uses
    “as we follow every twist of the Premier League season” BBC News · Wednesday 28 October 2026
  6. examine 4.4× more often · 32 uses
    “our journalists examine the evidence” BBC News Now · Tuesday 27 October 2026
  7. professor 4.0× more often · 46 uses
    “Conveniently, we have on speed dial a professor of comparative” Newscast · Tuesday 27 October 2026
  8. battles 3.9× more often · 35 uses
    “during one of the first world war's most infamous battles is still being discovered by” Verified Live · Wednesday 28 October 2026

News agenda by category

How this channel divided its coverage compared with the cross-channel average.

international 44h 29m (24.9%) vs 13.2% avg
Channel
Global
politics 29h 16m (16.4%) vs 23.5% avg
Channel
Global
war 21h (11.8%) vs 6.0% avg
Channel
Global
environment 14h 33m (8.1%) vs 7.9% avg
Channel
Global
media 13h 10m (7.4%) vs 6.8% avg
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Global
crime 12h 56m (7.2%) vs 10.9% avg
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Global
sport 9h 14m (5.2%) vs 5.7% avg
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Global
science 8h 3m (4.5%) vs 3.0% avg
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Global
health 7h 15m (4.1%) vs 5.9% avg
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Global
economy 5h 46m (3.2%) vs 5.0% avg
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Global
other 4h 7m (2.3%) vs 2.4% avg
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Global
society 3h 17m (1.8%) vs 3.3% avg
Channel
Global
transport 2h 48m (1.6%) vs 2.0% avg
Channel
Global
immigration 2h 46m (1.6%) vs 4.4% avg
Channel
Global

Timeline

This channel's topic coverage day by day — what it ran, and how much time each story got.

Wednesday 28 October 2026

Topics covered

transport

Spain Train Crash

1m 43s airtime

international

Israel Election

16m 32s airtime

politics

UK Budget

1h 35m airtime

politics

King Charles

56s airtime

health

Ebola

2m 28s airtime

politics

Flavio Bolsonaro

1m 57s airtime

war

Ukraine

5m 9s airtime

politics

US Midterms

2m 58s airtime

Stories missed

No coverage gaps for this channel on this date.