23-03-2023, 04:25 PM
(23-03-2023, 02:30 PM)ALV Wrote: Seems like Washington will handle overnight bulletins until 0500 on April 3rd. Not so sure if it’ll still be produced by London’s gallery like WNA and Newsday or it’ll be produced natively like ABR…
My guess is that 2300-0200 will be from Singapore for Newsday, 0300-0500 will be from Washington for the generic bulletins.
In long term I think they should consider moving the evening shifts out of London too for cost cutting…
Savings in the morning seems more likely in my opinion. For a 5am newscast out of London you need to have staff in during the early morning hours. The evening shift which will end at 11pm works 'normal' working hours.
Separately, people keep mentioning how advertisers will be fleeing if World's programming choices chase away too many viewers but do we know exactly how much is made through advertising and how much simply through pay-TV packages? When I was in HK, there were never any (or very rarely) any ads on BBC World but it was part of a pay-TV package so I suppose it's at a rate which the BBC negotiates with each pay-TV provider individually?