17-11-2023, 05:40 PM
I don’t know what the global feed of the channel does now, but it certainly used to be what I’d basically describe as a “white DOG” just saying BBC World News, in the same place the ticker usually appears, just without the ticker showing. But that was back pre-merger obviously.
Confirmation there on the endcap of Katty’s show too that it’s a BBC Studios production for BBC News, as we suspected.
That video also reminds me of something: why can’t the global channel do BOTH summaries any more? I know the answer is that for some of the overnight hours, Asia Business Report is airing but this was 3:30am (already into “Washington time”) so why does the Washington presenter not pop up to do a quick headline summary as the Newsday London presenter or London overnights presenter used to do in the good old days? This would give the additional benefit of having the presenter introduce the following programme instead of a generic graphic. India would also benefit from this massively as they used a .5 the hour time zone - and that’s a big BBC market.
Confirmation there on the endcap of Katty’s show too that it’s a BBC Studios production for BBC News, as we suspected.
That video also reminds me of something: why can’t the global channel do BOTH summaries any more? I know the answer is that for some of the overnight hours, Asia Business Report is airing but this was 3:30am (already into “Washington time”) so why does the Washington presenter not pop up to do a quick headline summary as the Newsday London presenter or London overnights presenter used to do in the good old days? This would give the additional benefit of having the presenter introduce the following programme instead of a generic graphic. India would also benefit from this massively as they used a .5 the hour time zone - and that’s a big BBC market.