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In late-2004, BBC World changed the way that opt-outs were done. For the best part of a year, a far too high proportion of opts were botched, with network frequently cutting out or in of the studio output mid-sentence.

When World followed News 24 in moving from an orange to a red clamshell in April 2005 (nine months after News 24), they only did so for the live generated titles - all other graphics remained orange, including titles for weekend summaries, The World Today and BBC News Extra. There was also a mismatch of orange graphics having a large BBC News logo and small BBC World logo, while red graphics were the other way round.

The 2007 graphics launch not only featured numerous elements outside the safe zone, with the graphics having to be altered multiple times over several weeks, but the ticker frequently broke down during the first two months of the new look and a red breaking news ticker not introduced for several months.

During the late-N8-era, the colour which the newsroom was lit for World News and World Business Report varied depending on the edition.

You complain about WBR retaining old titles, but neither the 2000, 2003 or 2006 WBR rebrands coincided with wider presentation changes.

This isn't to say that there hasn't been some sloppy presentation since the merger, but none of the actual issues are new.

The issue appears be with the sloppy presentation is that it has become more frequent since the merger rather than anything new.