[matthieu1221]

It'll be interesting to see if the opening "with the latest headlines for viewers in the UK and around the world" is dropped on 6 March as well. It's not used on the overnight simulcasts, presumably because UK viewing figures are miniscule anyway!

Probably, it always struck me as unnecessarily highlighting the simulcast and an annoying delay to actually getting to the headlines. I much prefer the classic: “This is BBC News, I’m whoever, the headlines [at TIME]”. You could still tell when it was a simulcast as references to time were dropped, of course.

They did an even longer and more unwieldy intro for a while during the original Covid lockdowns, to the effect of “This is BBC News, with the latest coronavirus developments here in the U.K. and around the world. I’m whoever.”

This is even more ridiculous when they then go on to say, again, “Welcome if you you are watching in the U.K., or around the world” immediately after the headline sequence!

Pretty trivial in the grand scheme of things but I particularly liked what they used to do on CNN Today. They used to start off with 'it's [time] in [location] where [news headline], [time] in [location] where [news headline]'. In that way, if there's always a UK story weaved into the TOTH, it could double as a time-check without it being obvious that it's a simulcast. But alas no headlines at all it seems?