The BBC News at Six is the evening news programme broadcast each night on British television channel BBC One and the BBC News channel at 18:00. For a long period the News at Six was the most watched news programme in the UK but since 2006 it has been over taken by the BBC News at Ten. On average it pulls in 4 million viewers.

George Alagiah is currently the main presenter, presenting Monday to Thursday, while Fiona Bruce is its Friday presenter. Other BBC News presenters, including Sophie Raworth, Huw Edwards and Mishal Husain also appear.

In late 2007 the length of the programme was shortened from 30 minutes to 28 minutes to allow for a news summary being shown on BBC 1 at 7:58pm.

The programme launched on 3 September 1984, replacing early evening news magazine Sixty Minutes and was originally presented by Sue Lawley and Nicholas Witchell. Both presenters have since moved on to other positions within BBC News and the BBC itself. Jeremy Paxman, who went on to present Newsnight in 1989, was relief newsreader from 10 September.

News at Six is the evening news programme broadcast Monday to Sunday at 6:00pm in Hong Kong by television channel ATV Home. This programme first aired in ATV Home on May 29, 1957, with broadcasting time at 6:15pm.

The first evening bulletin was launched on May 29, 1957 - Tonight's Main News aired at 6:15pm. On January 7, 1980 moved to 7:30pm, On September 1, 1980 at 7:00pm, moved back to the 6:30pm. On January 5, 1981 moved to 7:30pm, On June 1, 1981 moved back to the 6:30pm. On September 26, 1983 moved to 7:00pm. On February 6, 1984 on Monday to Friday called Hong Kong Today and News Report and other programmes Hong Kong Today, ended on October 26, 1984. On March 18, 1985, moved back to the 6:15pm. On February 13, 1989 renamed News at 6:15. On February 25, 1991 moved back to the 6:00pm, renamed News at Six. On September 28, 1998 on Monday to Friday called The News Hour, News at Six, iNews Web and other new programmes Sports Bulletin. On May 3, 1999 returned to News at Six. On October 4, 1999, moved to 6:25pm, renamed ATV Focus News. On October 18, 1999 renamed ATV News at 7:30. On March 6, 2000 returned to News at Six at 6:00pm to Present. On Monday September 7, 2009 the programming switched to background.

BBC News is the department of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs. The department is the world's largest broadcast news organisation and generates about 120 hours of radio and television output each day, as well as online news coverage. The service maintains 44 foreign news bureaux and has correspondents in almost all of the world's 240 countries. Since 2004, the Director of BBC News has been Helen Boaden.

The department's annual budget is £350 million; it has 3,500 staff, 2,000 of whom are journalists. Through the BBC English Regions, BBC News has regional centres across England as well as national news centres in Northern Ireland, Scotland, and Wales. All regions and nations produce their own local news programmes and other current affairs and sport programmes.

Radio and television operations are broadcast from BBC Television Centre in West London, though are due to move to the newly refurbished Broadcasting House in central London by 2013. Television Centre houses all domestic, global, and online news divisions within one main newsroom. Parliamentary coverage is produced and broadcast from studios in Millbank in London.

George Maxwell Alagiah OBE ( /ˌæləˈɡaɪə/; born 22 November 1955 in Colombo, Ceylon) is a British newsreader, journalist and television news presenter.

Since 3 December 2007, he has been the sole presenter of the BBC News at Six and has also been the main presenter of GMT on BBC World News since its launch on 1 February 2010. He is also the main relief presenter for the BBC's flagship bulletin BBC News at Ten and has held this role since its launch in 2000, making him the longest serving presenter of the flagship news programme.

Alagiah's parents, Donald Alagiah, an engineer, and Therese, were Tamils. In 1961 his parents moved to Ghana in West Africa, where he did his primary education at Christ the King International School. He spent his secondary education at St John's College, an independent Catholic boarding school in Portsmouth, England, after which he read politics at Van Mildert College, Durham University. Whilst at Durham, he wrote for and became editor of the student newspaper Palatinate and was a sabbatical officer of Durham Students' Union. He worked on South Magazine from 1982 until joining the BBC, where he was the Developing World correspondent based in London and then Southern Africa correspondent in Johannesburg.

Matthias Frei better known as Matt Frei (born 26 November 1963) is a German-born British television news journalist and writer, formerly the Washington, D.C. correspondent for Channel 4 News, and now a presenter.

Frei was born in 1963 in Essen, West Germany. His parents were refugees who left Silesia before it became part of Poland and settled in West Germany. In 1973 he left Germany with his family and moved to the United Kingdom, when his father became a London correspondent for German radio.

He was educated at Westminster School, then read History and Spanish at St Peter's College, University of Oxford, before graduating in 1986.

Frei is married and has four children.

Frei joined the BBC shortly after graduation. After a year in the German section of the World Service, he moved to English Language Current Affairs, where he worked for another year.

In 1989, working as a stringer, he reported on the First Intifada in Jerusalem, then on the Persian Gulf War as London Foreign Affairs correspondent. He took up the post of Bonn correspondent in Germany on the same day as the fall of the Berlin Wall.