Starting this year, The Queen’s Christmas Broadcast will be produced and distributed by Sky News, the BBC and the ITV Network on a two-year alternating cycle for both television and radio use.

Sky News will produce and distribute the Christmas Broadcast this year and again in 2012, establishing the new cycle.

The broadcast will be shown each year on Christmas Day at 3pm concurrently on SKY, BBC1 and ITV.

NOTES TO EDITORS:
The ITV Network produced The Queen’s Christmas Broadcast last year and in 2009. The BBC produced it the previous two years.

The ITV Network joined the Christmas Broadcast rotation in 1997.