BBC World News from New Broadcasting House

Yes, it was Chris Rogers from 0500-0800 BST with Duncan at 0800 and 0900. After that I went to sleep.

BBC World News has replaced Focus on Africa with a HARDtalk special with Tim Sebastian, Zeinab Badawi, Sarah Montague and Stephen Sackur interviewing each other and with clips from 20 years of the programme.

Some interesting facts from the programme, which was repeated in its usual slot:
- Mo Mowlam kicked Tim Sebastian in the shin after her interview because she thought he was a "bast**d".
- 20 years ago, producers were more worried about what Tim Sebastian would wear: they had thought about getting Tim Sebastian to wear a Smoking Jacket for HARDtalk.

I just was watching BBC World's coverage of the Borussia Dortmund football team bus bombing and was surprised to see that it was handled by the BBC Sport team. I understand that it occurred during the scheduled sportscast but I can't recall a time when they covered breaking news. Has this happened before?

Also I'm curious how the sports casts are handled. Is the production transferred to the crew in Salford? Or is it treated as an OB controlled by the gallery in BH?

Not really surprising given the subject matter and thankfully so far it is largely a sports related story than anything more significant.

Sport bulletins are produced from a separate studio, gallery and production team based in Salford. There are a few news bulletins where sport is an integral part (such as in Impact) but under those circumstances they're put to air through a gallery in London, but they still produce their bit of the output themselves.

Just to clarify for scheduled bulletins are directly sent to Ericsson (they handle distribution right?) and for program's like Impact the team in salford would produce it and the program feed (essentially as if it was a regular bulletin with graphics) is routed through the London gallery.

No they handle playout /presentation. That's putting the channel together - playing the programmes, adverts, promos etc.

It's what you'd call master control.... but not all the functions that an American stations master control would do, it's just channel output

Salford (for Sport Today) a circuit from Broadcasting House (for news, switched between studios as required) and Singapore (for ABR) appear on OS (outside source) lines to Ericsson. They incorporate those feeds into the schedules with taped programmes, ads, interstitials and so on, regionally split and sent out appropriately.

Studios in Salford and Singapore, Washington etc are also available to London, with two way comms, for inclusion into news programmes produced in London (like Newsday, World News America, 100Days)

Incidentally the same sport studio in Salford is also used by the news channel.

Not really what you were thinking of I suspect but the siege at the Munich Olympics was covered largely by the BBC Sport team there

...as was the Hillsborough disaster.

Yep and Heysel