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  • 11/01/2011
Friday 7th January 2011. The BBC began broadcasting a regional TV news service for the South in July 1958, getting on air just one month ahead of its ITV rival Southern Television. For many years, the BBC studios were in South Western House, the former Cunard shipping line headquarters near Southampton Docks. The programme went through several changes of name and format until it became South at Six in January 1961. Taking over from the original South at Six programme from the 1970s. The programme is broadcast live from studios in Southampton. The present presenter is Sally Taylor MBE (born 1957 in Reading) who is an English journalist and presenter.

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