[Critique]

Having taken a look at the 2pm hour, although it seems to have been a World news production it didn’t follow the clockwork timings that World bulletins have generally followed. Instead, the timings were looser, like they would be on the BBC News Channel, which flows better for UK viewers (there were no pregnant pauses whilst waiting for World to opt in/out to breaks etc), but must look strange for viewers on BBC World News?

For example, World bulletins normally finish at exactly :26 with a proper close (thanks for watching, bye for now), at which point as I understand it the different feeds show weather for whichever part of the world you are in and local ads. There’s then a sixty second headline summary at :30, followed by an ident/pre-recorded CA into whatever’s airing during the back half hour. These strict timings presumably also help for when bulletins are syndicated on other channels.

However, in the 2pm hour there was a report running through :26, with the weather starting during :27 and the presenter name checking the UK weather forecaster. As such, presumably the forecast(er) was UK only, in which case what did everyone else see? Did World just crash out mid-report at :26?

The bottom of the hour headlines weren’t on time either (probably starting during :31, but the clock isn’t on screen so not certain). Did World get their own headlines at :30, or did they just have to miss them and go straight into whatever pre-record they were showing in the back half hour? As the News Channel doesn’t have a presentation gallery (whereas World has Red Bee), I’d have thought it’s not possible to do split programming from the same gallery, as the gallery would have been tied up at :30 running News Channel trails?