Television operations in Southampton soon moved to the BBC studios at South Western House, the former Cunard shipping line headquarters near the city's docks.

In September 1991, BBC South moved its Southampton headquarters to a new purpose-built broadcasting centre in Havelock Road.

Bruce Parker joined South Today in 1967 and remained as the main anchor until 1992, continuing to present and contribute as Political Editor until 2003.

The current main presenter, Sally Taylor, started co-presenting the programme in 1987 (replacing Debbie Thrower), initially alongside Parker and then successively with Paddy Haycocks, Mark Longhurst, Harry Gration, Andrew Harvey and Roger Finn, but in recent years she has been the regular solo presenter of the main programme.

Prior to September 2001, BBC South Today's region included areas served by the Heathfield transmitter and its relays which covered eastern Sussex and southern Kent.

However the transmitter still continues to provide the ITV1 Meridian news service for the western part of the region, based in Southampton.

Between 16 October 2000 and 16 December 2022, BBC South produced a distinct news service for the area served by the Oxford transmitter.

New titles and graphics were introduced as part of an on-screen overhaul across the BBC's national, international and regional news services.

The Oxford sub-opt covered the first 10–15 minutes of the main evening BBC South Today at 18:30, before joining Sally Taylor for the latter part of the Southampton edition of the programme.

[4] The programme still continue to broadcast across Hampshire, Isle of Wight, Oxfordshire, Berkshire, West Sussex, much of Dorset and parts of Surrey and Wiltshire (including Salisbury and Swindon), small parts of eastern Gloucestershire, western Buckinghamshire and southern Northamptonshire.

Freeview viewers in Guildford, Farnham, Henley and Aldershot receive better television signals from the Crystal Palace transmitter which broadcast London News and viewers in parts of Dorset including Weymouth and Isle of Portland receive Spotlight from the Stockland Hill transmitter.

Most of Worthing receive its television signals from the Whitehawk Hill transmitter that broadcast South East Today.

He has covered the war in Afghanistan and Iraq, natural disasters in Asia and Africa and major sporting events in Europe and China.

Coombes started at BBC Radio Solent in 2007, working a variety of roles, predominantly the producer of the breakfast show.