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CI
cifpower
Breakfast News posted:
World News Today, with George Alagiah

He's in the US all this week promoting the channel and his new show.


Indeed. You can see pictures of him and the new adverts BBC World has in New York (including an "interactive billboard") HERE.

If you have not seen the BBC World TV adverts, they are HERE along with some print adverts. The short films are very intense.
CO
cortomaltese
Wonder what changes in the presenter rota will take place after the introduction of World News Today, as the afternoon stint will only last three hours.
Also I think it's strange they will be presenting from London a programme particularly aimed to the American audience. It would be nice to see more bulletins presented from the New York and the Washington studios or from both the American and the London newsrooms.
JA
jamesmd
cortomaltese posted:
Wonder what changes in the presenter rota will take place after the introduction of World News Today, as the afternoon stint will only last three hours.
Also I think it's strange they will be presenting from London a programme particularly aimed to the American audience. It would be nice to see more bulletins presented from the New York and the Washington studios or from both the American and the London newsrooms.


If you can fit anyone but Tanya Beckett into the studio in NY, it's so tiny
MQ
Mr Q
I just want to pitch an idea that I've been thinking about since "Newshour" (now "World News Today") was announced... References have been made to World News Today being just part of broader schedule changes to BBC World, including more one hour news programming. So I've been jotting down some ideas for a revamped BBC World weekday schedule. Times are GMT.

0500-0830: The World Today
The European Breakfast slot, with three and a half hours of rolling news, business, sport and weather from the BBC.

0830: Sport Today
0900: BBC News
0930: World Business Report - Live from London and Singapore
1000: BBC News
1030: HardTalk*

1100-1200: Newsline International
A revamped version of The World, with two hour-long editions a day, with an indepth look at world news and affairs. Heading into evenings in Asia, this edition of Newsline International will have an emphasis on Asian issues (thus making "Asia Today" redundant).

1200-1400: World News Today
Live from Washington, targetting the breakfast market on the US east coast, rolling news, business, sport and weather from the BBC.

1400: BBC News
1430: World Business Report - Live from London and New York
1500: BBC News
1530: HardTalk*

1600-1800: World News Today
Live from Washington, the 2nd edition of WNT.

1800: BBC News
1830: Sport Today
1900: BBC News
1930: HardTalk*

2000: Newsline International
The 2nd edition of Newsline International, simulcast on BBC Four to the UK domestic audience.

2100-0030: The World Today
More rolling news with a second edition of The World Today targetting evening audiences in Europe, while leading into the early morning for Asia.

0030: World Business Report - Live from New York and Singapore

0100-0300: World News Today
Live from Washington, targetting the US primetime as well as Asian breakfast.

0300: BBC News (News 24 Overnight)
0330: World Business Report - Live from New York and Singapore
0400: BBC News (News 24 Overnight)
0430: HardTalk*

* Throughout the day in various markets around the world HardTalk would be replaced by regional programming and other specials. For instance, at 1530 GMT, European viewers might get Click Online rather than HardTalk.

At any rate, the point is to achieve greater consistency in scheduling around the world, rather than Asia doing its own thing during the day. To that end, programmes like "Asia Business Report" are dumped, with Asian business news being fully absorbed into live editions of World Business Report at various times of the day.

The other major effort here is to increase news coverage, rather than simply running half hour bulletins all day, have rolling news coverage that allows people to dip in and out of the channel at various times of the day, rather than locking them in to switching on at the top of the hour.

Business news coverage shouldn't be compromised either. Instead, by focussing on rolling news programming incorporating business news, I think business viewers receive a far more complete picture - business news isn't simply about stock markets, guidance or financial reports, it's also about what's going on in the rest of the world and how it effects businesses. General news coverage is therefore an important part of business news coverage.

Just some other notes:

Arrow TWT would have two presenters. In a sense it currently does, with a news presenter and a business presenter. As a 3.5 hour-long rolling news programme though the two presenters would actually present together rather than one for news and one for business.
Arrow WNT and Newsline International, along with the half hour BBC News bulletins would have just one presenter. The first two editions of WNT (at 12 and 2pm GMT) would be presented by the same person (such as Katty Kay), with the later edition (0100 GMT) to have a separate presenter. Newsline International in the morning could be presented by George Alagiah, leaving the evening edition to be presented by Zeinab Badawi or whoever.

Anyway, just some ideas there... Just to make it very clear, this obviously isn't the real schedule BBC World will be using from June - they're my ideas only.
CO
cortomaltese
Very interesting ideas, such a schedule would make the channel look more global (news presented daily from four studios) and really "putting news first". Some recorded programmes though would have to be cancelled for lack of time in the weekly schedule, thus making the channel look more CNN style.
IA
ian001
There was an article in the New York Times about the arrival of BBC World in America. I do hope BBC World does get further distribution deals in the US. Clearly, it won't make a massive dent in the audiences of CNN USA and Fox, but I'm sure it will find an audience.

You'll have to register to read the article in full.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/01/business/media/01adco.html

Quote:

Round-the-Clock News, With a British Accent

By STUART ELLIOTT
Published: June 1, 2006
THE British are coming again, this time not clad in red coats or sporting Beatle haircuts but bearing cameras, microphones and notebooks.

A BBC World News interactive billboard in Midtown Manhattan allows passers-by to view news photos and decide which of two different opinions they agree with.

This invasion is of the journalistic kind as British news media enter the American market or seek to raise their profile here. The most recent example is the BBC World division of the British Broadcasting Corporation, which starts a campaign today to introduce Americans to a 24-hour news network on cable television that seeks to compete against CNN and Fox News Channel.

The campaign, with a budget estimated at close to $1 million, is promoting the arrival of the BBC World News network on American cable. The Cablevision Systems Corporation recently added the network to its digital lineup in metropolitan New York. The campaign, by BBDO Worldwide in New York, part of the Omnicom Group, is aimed not only at potential viewers but also at Madison Avenue, to stimulate demand for commercial time, and at other cable system operators, to persuade them to offer BBC World News to their subscribers.

"We hope very much this is the start of a series of deals," said Richard Sambrook, chief executive at BBC World in London, who is working with Discovery Communications on American distribution for BBC World News.

The United States "is the only region in the world where we're not available on a 24-hour basis," Mr. Sambrook said. Until now, he added, the only exposure Americans have had to BBC news was a daily, 30-minute program carried by local PBS stations. (The BBC America cable network that BBC World distributes to 49.4 million American homes offers only entertainment programming.)

The campaign for BBC World News, carrying themes like "News beyond your borders," portrays the network as providing coverage that is impartial and objective, enabling viewers, as several ads declare, to "see both sides of the story."

In other words, "Fair and balanced," but for real.

"In some ways the electorate is saying it's tired of partisanship in Washington, so conceptually there is an opportunity for a new voice to enter the cable news arena that is less polarizing," said Ed Keller, chief executive at the Keller Fay Group, an agency in New Brunswick, N.J., that specializes in word-of-mouth marketing. He likened BBC World News' chances of drawing viewers to the ability of a third-party candidate for president "to make waves" in 2008.

The BBC news network is the third recent example of the British media aiming at Americans. In February, The Economist, the weekly newsmagazine published by Pearson, started testing in Baltimore a campaign to increase subscription and newsstand sales in the United States.

And The Times of London, owned by the News Corporation, announced last week that it would begin publishing a daily newspaper for American readers, starting on Tuesday, with an initial print run of close to 10,000 copies to be distributed in New York and Washington.

"This has the feeling of Americans deciding they need something outside the system to get a perspective on what's going on," said Nick Shore, principal at the Way Group in New York, a strategic consulting company. "It's a global version of a second opinion."

The interest in world news delivered from someplace outside the United States could be a reaction to "the Wal-Martization of America," Mr. Shore said — that is, responding to perceptions of news that originates here as homogenized or corporatized.


CI
cityprod
Mr Q, your idea is a good one, but there are certain little caveats.

1. The BBC Four News commission is for a 30 minute programme. BBC World could not put on a 60 minute programme at 8pm UK, because of that commission. I love the idea of "The World", but it strikes me more as a news features programme for a back half hour, rather than a top of the hour bulletin. If anybody has ever heard the PRI version of "The World" online via a station such as WGBH Boston, which incidentally is co-produced by the BBC, you would realise that it is news features, and the same applies for the BBC World TV version. If BBC Four stay with "The World", what I would prefer to see would be a 5 minute news summary at the start, then the features afterwards.

2. The 2300 UK edition of BBC World News is also simulcast on many PBS stations in the US. That programme must be at least co-anchored from London and Washington, if not completely anchored from Washington. This is practically an essential, given that that particular bulletin is the watched by Americans more than any other BBC bulletin.

Those two are fixed points in the schedule and are practically unchangeable and unmovable. I would also say that I consider The World Today from 0500-0800 in the same vein, as well as the new World News Today..
EY
the eye
Hello, after many months, ive actually added stuff to the BBC World section of NZTVPres.info ... you an view caps caps and more caps from here Clicky!! and in the coming weeks there will be videos.

Chur.
SE
seamus
ian001 posted:
There was an article in the New York Times about the arrival of BBC World in America. I do hope BBC World does get further distribution deals in the US. Clearly, it won't make a massive dent in the audiences of CNN USA and Fox, but I'm sure it will find an audience.

You'll have to register to read the article in full.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/01/business/media/01adco.html

Quote:

Round-the-Clock News, With a British Accent

By STUART ELLIOTT
Published: June 1, 2006
THE British are coming again, this time not clad in red coats or sporting Beatle haircuts but bearing cameras, microphones and notebooks.

A BBC World News interactive billboard in Midtown Manhattan allows passers-by to view news photos and decide which of two different opinions they agree with.

This invasion is of the journalistic kind as British news media enter the American market or seek to raise their profile here. The most recent example is the BBC World division of the British Broadcasting Corporation, which starts a campaign today to introduce Americans to a 24-hour news network on cable television that seeks to compete against CNN and Fox News Channel.

The campaign, with a budget estimated at close to $1 million, is promoting the arrival of the BBC World News network on American cable. The Cablevision Systems Corporation recently added the network to its digital lineup in metropolitan New York. The campaign, by BBDO Worldwide in New York, part of the Omnicom Group, is aimed not only at potential viewers but also at Madison Avenue, to stimulate demand for commercial time, and at other cable system operators, to persuade them to offer BBC World News to their subscribers.

"We hope very much this is the start of a series of deals," said Richard Sambrook, chief executive at BBC World in London, who is working with Discovery Communications on American distribution for BBC World News.

The United States "is the only region in the world where we're not available on a 24-hour basis," Mr. Sambrook said. Until now, he added, the only exposure Americans have had to BBC news was a daily, 30-minute program carried by local PBS stations. (The BBC America cable network that BBC World distributes to 49.4 million American homes offers only entertainment programming.)

The campaign for BBC World News, carrying themes like "News beyond your borders," portrays the network as providing coverage that is impartial and objective, enabling viewers, as several ads declare, to "see both sides of the story."

In other words, "Fair and balanced," but for real.

"In some ways the electorate is saying it's tired of partisanship in Washington, so conceptually there is an opportunity for a new voice to enter the cable news arena that is less polarizing," said Ed Keller, chief executive at the Keller Fay Group, an agency in New Brunswick, N.J., that specializes in word-of-mouth marketing. He likened BBC World News' chances of drawing viewers to the ability of a third-party candidate for president "to make waves" in 2008.

The BBC news network is the third recent example of the British media aiming at Americans. In February, The Economist, the weekly newsmagazine published by Pearson, started testing in Baltimore a campaign to increase subscription and newsstand sales in the United States.

And The Times of London, owned by the News Corporation, announced last week that it would begin publishing a daily newspaper for American readers, starting on Tuesday, with an initial print run of close to 10,000 copies to be distributed in New York and Washington.

"This has the feeling of Americans deciding they need something outside the system to get a perspective on what's going on," said Nick Shore, principal at the Way Group in New York, a strategic consulting company. "It's a global version of a second opinion."

The interest in world news delivered from someplace outside the United States could be a reaction to "the Wal-Martization of America," Mr. Shore said — that is, responding to perceptions of news that originates here as homogenized or corporatized.




I'll be watching it, because I'm Irish born stranded here in america. I want news outside of the us, and am bbc Obsessed. When I had Cable in DUblin, I really only watched BBC. Also, with CNN, meh..., and FOX....ug. I really want directv to get it, because that would be my news channel.

Also, I think there should be a RTE America, seeing that most americans are of Irish desent.
SE
seamus
Hear is the nyt picture, cause my mom has a subscription:
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2006/06/01/business/01adco650.jpg
PE
Pete Founding member
Mr Q posted:
2000: Newsline International
The 2nd edition of Newsline International, simulcast on BBC Four to the UK domestic audience.


with a focus on the plight of palestinian women no doubt. has anyone seen The World recently? Has it got any better or is it still a waste of space?

It's a very nice idea of a schedule and something world should do. Course ideally they'd also pump a load of money in for the US launch to actually have some fab looking studios in all the locations they intend to use. The one at TVC is essentially, a rubbish knock off of N24 and the washington one is poo too.

I don't think they could justify N6/N7 style sets *ALTHOUGH* if they intended to go down the around the world idea, then cityscapes might be the way to do it. With the N6 backdrop but more obviously London.

Course it'll never happen, they can't even do advert breaks right anymore.
KI
Kikrokos
Hello everyone,

Since 15:00 CET, the countdown on BBC World looks rather different. The bolder and broader numbers (on the bottom right) are back and it seems like the countdown too, is broadcast in 14:9. It doesn't seem to be (another) technical failure, as I have seen this change several times now.

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