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RE: BBC News Channel/BBC World News Merger - Moz - 06-03-2023

(06-03-2023, 02:38 PM)Transmission Wrote:  

(06-03-2023, 11:35 AM)mark Wrote:  Sorry if it's been covered earlier in the thread, but will there be a clock on the UK feed of the new channel?

While it's what we've come to expect from a news channel, arguably it's better not to have one nowadays as it's wrong for anyone watching online.

I can't imagine it won't have one. It's something that's been expected on news channels since long before even tickers were, and the convenience and usefulness to viewers outweighs the slight delay on some platforms.

Speaking of the clock, it did disappear for about 15 minutes at around 09:15 this morning, there were a few problems with the news channel ticker for a little while.

You’d think BBC World would feature a clock with UTC time on it. Most of the time you only look at a clock for the minutes anyway and while there are some time zones with +/- 30 minutes this is rare.

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RE: BBC News Channel/BBC World News Merger - bakamann - 06-03-2023

(06-03-2023, 02:59 PM)Moz Wrote:  

(06-03-2023, 02:38 PM)Transmission Wrote:  I can't imagine it won't have one. It's something that's been expected on news channels since long before even tickers were, and the convenience and usefulness to viewers outweighs the slight delay on some platforms.

Speaking of the clock, it did disappear for about 15 minutes at around 09:15 this morning, there were a few problems with the news channel ticker for a little while.

You’d think BBC World would feature a clock with UTC time on it. Most of the time you only look at a clock for the minutes anyway and while there are some time zones with +/- 30 minutes this is rare.

I kinda wish that they would have a GMT/UTC clock as well, just like BBC Arabic. Speaking of which, they still use the Gill Sans BBC logo, I wonder when do they plan to change that?

Anyways, Maryam Moshiri is now presenting BBC News bulletin, back on Studio E.

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RE: BBC News Channel/BBC World News Merger - Chud - 06-03-2023

For some reason I didn’t know WBR had a separate presenter. I assumed they were all presented like the 5.30am one. Suddenly seems like a luxury.

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RE: BBC News Channel/BBC World News Merger - oscillon - 06-03-2023

(06-03-2023, 03:33 PM)Chud Wrote:  For some reason I didn’t know WBR had a separate presenter. I assumed they were all presented like the 5.30am one. Suddenly seems like a luxury.

And they messed up the 1430 UKT business headlines by putting a wrong mic (Maryam's?) on air.

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RE: BBC News Channel/BBC World News Merger - bakamann - 06-03-2023

(06-03-2023, 03:33 PM)Chud Wrote:  For some reason I didn’t know WBR had a separate presenter. I assumed they were all presented like the 5.30am one. Suddenly seems like a luxury.

From what I recall, BBC World News business bulletin at 05:30am was previously World Business Report. Did they scrap those during the pandemic or before that?

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RE: BBC News Channel/BBC World News Merger - Universal_r - 06-03-2023

I don’t understand why the 0530UKT world business report isn’t branded as such when the other editions are. Does anyone have any insight into this?

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RE: BBC News Channel/BBC World News Merger - Newsroom - 06-03-2023

(06-03-2023, 03:45 PM)bakamann Wrote:  

(06-03-2023, 03:33 PM)Chud Wrote:  For some reason I didn’t know WBR had a separate presenter. I assumed they were all presented like the 5.30am one. Suddenly seems like a luxury.

From what I recall, BBC World News business bulletin at 05:30am was previously World Business Report. Did they scrap those during the pandemic or before that?

I think WBR was canned when the show evolved into 'Worklife' and then the pandemic hit and that was axed. Main pres has done the business for some years now.

EDIT - Nope I am wrong. Worklife was 2 x pres.

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RE: BBC News Channel/BBC World News Merger - ALV - 06-03-2023

(06-03-2023, 03:45 PM)bakamann Wrote:  

(06-03-2023, 03:33 PM)Chud Wrote:  For some reason I didn’t know WBR had a separate presenter. I assumed they were all presented like the 5.30am one. Suddenly seems like a luxury.

From what I recall, BBC World News business bulletin at 05:30am was previously World Business Report. Did they scrap those during the pandemic or before that?

Before 2017, the 5AM hour consists of a generic bulletin from 0500-0530, World Business Report from 0530-0545, and then "In The Papers" (a paper review) from 0545-0600. "In the Papers" is double-headed by the bulletin presenter and WBR presenter together.

After 2017, as part of budget cuts, a business shift is cut in the mornings, and "The Briefing" was launched, presented by Sally Bundock. It was "The Briefing" from 0500-0530, "Business Briefing" from 0530-0545, and then "News Briefing" (a paper review) from 0545-0600.

Since 2020, the "News Briefing" is cut due to Covid, and the 5AM hour became 2 generic bulletins (0500-0530/0530-0600). The second bulletin is more business oriented. Sometime later the second bulletin was renamed "World Business Report" on the EPG but it is still branded as a generic bulletin with more business news. 

I guess they haven't renamed the programme back to WBR yet as they don't have plans to reintroduce the news paper review segments from 0545-0600... probably due to budget cuts.

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RE: BBC News Channel/BBC World News Merger - Jimbo2022 - 06-03-2023

Hard talk on World at 0930 and 1530 we now know. Bulletin continues fir UK version

So world splits now appear to be

0600-0900
0930-1000
1300-1400
1530-1600
1800-1900
2200-2230

With the two channels the same the rest of the time apart from optouts for weather and ads

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RE: BBC News Channel/BBC World News Merger - UTVLifer - 06-03-2023

I do very much like Studio E in WBR blue - and slightly shocked that it's taken a decade for us to get to see E lit up in business blue

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