07-02-2023, 11:41 AM
(07-02-2023, 11:10 AM)ALV Wrote: Some minor tweaks this morning... The 10AM hour is not simulcast on WN today.It's odd that they didn't return to the 10:00 Live; 10:30 pre-record set-up when World daytimes returned to normal - that was the BBC World News schedule from March 2017 - March 2020.
Maryam Moshiri (who I assume is presenting Live with Lucy Hockings today) came on air 1 hour early to do a separate WN bulletin. The back half hour is replaced with a recorded programme (The New Space Race). Not sure if this is a permanent thing, since the 10AM hour is still listed as a full hour on the WN schedule tommorow.
Annita McVeigh also stuttered a bit when opening the 10AM hour: "This is BBC News and these are the latest headlines in... the UK"
I do hope that they drop the slightly clunky "... in the UK and around the world" line when the new channel launches (which I think might have been Alistair Yates' originally). Personally, I'd prefer something along the lines of George Alagiah's old WNT/GMT opening line of "It's 12 noon here in London, 7am in Washington and 3 in the afternoon in Turkey where..." (although that was post-titles rather than TOTH).