BBC News is the BBC’s rolling television news channel. In the UK, use the television guide or BBC iPlayer. BBC Help also documents a BBC.com and BBC app live route in the USA and Australia. A shared BBC article or video can lead to coverage of the same story through a different product.
Identify the running television feed
Freeview describes a 24-hour BBC News channel with breaking stories and analysis alongside business, weather and sport. It lists the channel at position 231 on its platform. A continuous feed is useful when you want successive updates or the live handover between presenters.
If you want an interview you already saw, keep the approximate time, subject and guest. Search those details for an individual clip or story. If you want to continue with live updates, reopen the channel listing and look for the current feed.
Match the website or app to the country
The BBC’s international help points US and Australian viewers to Watch live on BBC.com or Live in the BBC app. Those instructions describe the BBC’s own digital route in those markets. Use the page for the country where you are watching when you encounter an account or viewing prompt.
The subscription help describes the channel livestream as part of the US BBC.com subscription and says it is unavailable on BBC.com in Canada. The same article places BBC iPlayer within the UK offering. A person sharing a BBC.com subscription link should therefore name the country and the item they want to share.
Describe the item that matters
For a continuous broadcast, write BBC News channel, your country and whether you’re using a TV guide, BBC iPlayer or the BBC app. For a particular segment, use its subject and approximate air time. A dated news article may help identify the story, while the channel guide tells you which programme was running when you saw it.