[DTV]

- Asia Business Report continues on the core channel but the UK feed continues to not carry it in overnights, instead replacing it with RECORDED PROGRAMMES AGAIN UGH

Oh, that's a shame. That is the only program coming from Singapore where the presenter stands! I understand that their way of thought is that the show is of little relevance to the UK audience, but come on, not even one bulletin?

Asia Business Report has a very odd history - began in 2000/01, but wasn't even shown on all BBC World regions until 2008, then very quickly became a central piece of the 'overnight' schedule. BBC News showed a few editions from 2012-15, before switching to one edition a day, but this was removed at the start of the pandemic. It's an odd decision as there surely aren't many viewers seeking out the nth repeat of one of the pre-records on rotation, but possibly a few viewers in the City on Asia desk.

It's good to know that WBR will be staying on the channel, though, at least for now. Given some of the stuff they said when they launched Worklife, I did worry that they might be looking to phase it out. Will be good for domestic viewers to get some daytime business updates again.

Even now, the 0200, 0300, 0400 and 0500 bulletins are displayed as 'BBC World News' on listings, but in reality are referred to by the presenter as 'BBC News' bulletins (albeit produced by the World team), as they are joint simulcast bulletins. So we can't read anything into that regarding how the international channel will be branded from 6 March.

Good to know that the overnight bulletins are officially World-produced these days. It was always weird how long they kept up the charade of them being 'officially' produced by the News channel, despite the fact they were always very obviously structured as per World bulletins, editorially leaned heavily to international news and major scheduling decisions (such as the launch of World News Today in 2007) were being made by BBC World.