Radio 1’s dedicated news programme Newsbeat celebrates its 40th birthday today. There’s a news story on the Newsbeat website including a clip of one of the first broadcasts from September 1973. There’s also a handful of archived news-related jingles on Radio Rewind if you're after a skip down memory lane.
Newsbeat is an important part of Radio 1’s remit as stated in the station’s service licence. A PDF of the service licence is available on the BBC Trust website.
Newsbeat is available online, via Twitter, YouTube and Facebook.
Jon Jacob is Editor, About the BBC website and blog.
