[Rolling News]

BBC World News has never really done double-headed presentation with two news presenters in the same studio (they have obviously done two presenters in different cities or the old morning news-business partnership), but there was a short-lived double-headed news hour at 10:00 from July 2008 to Feb 2010.

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Definitely the strongest line up for me on the channel was when I first started watching around 2006. So many good double headed partnerships and even the single headed slots were fronted by anchors who felt like they were talking to the viewer (!).

Mornings: Simon McCoy & Kate Silverton (then Carrie Gracie)
Lunchtime: Jane Hill & Matthew Amroliwala
Afternoons: Jon Sopel & Louise Minchin/Emily Maitlis
Five Hour: Huw Edwards or Gavin Esler
Evenings: Ben Brown & Joanna Gosling
Late Nights: Chris Eakin
Weekends: Maxine Mawhinney, Tim Wilcox, Nicholas Owen, Chris Lowe, Annita McVeigh, Peter Sissons
Overnight: Alastair Yates, Deborah Mackenzie, Martine Croxall, Karin Giannone

Couldn’t beat it.

It was a good era, I agree. Helped in no small part, I think, by Sky News' constant chopping and changing their schedule during that period, not to mention the Sky-Virgin dispute - making News 24 look much more stable in comparison. 

Not sure Peter Sissons ever quite suited rolling news, though, bless him. He should have stayed on the 10 for much longer than he did. Or moved to World, which was still largely fixed bulletins back then.

I think it was some of Peter’s little quirks and comments he’d make that made him so fun to watch. Also his strong sense of authority. I do agree he wasn’t the greatest at breaking news itself though with things changing all the time, and always seemed happier and more comfortable on straight bulletins with a fixed running order.

I think Julia Somerville was another old school presenter who was the same as Peter. Others though, such as Chris Lowe, Philip Hayton, Nicholas Owen and Fiona Armstrong, all seemed to take to it much better.