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Ahead of the imminent demise of World Business Report (as discussed earlier in this thread), a nice acknowledgement from the BBC's Ben Thompson:

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Also nice to see replies to that tweet from Richard Quest -- WBR with Quest in New York and Paddy O'Connell in London was always as fun as it was engaging and informative.

I suspect the new Business Today programmes will be much the same as the Business Reports they replace, but with more time devoted to pointless discussions and worthless opinions, and less time spent on covering actual news -- that is, of course, the new normal across the BBC News channel these days.

A shame to see the end of the XYZ Business Report names after almost three decades.

Still, I'm sure I'll feel much better when I see the new Business Today titles, with their latest combination of flat red circles, stock imagery, weak animations, and 'free design template' aesthetic. I look forward to marvelling, as with other recent BBC News title sequences, at how little imagination and creativity were required to produce them.

Such is the standard of BBC News branding and design in this new era. Bland, generic, relentlessly underwhelming.