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Asia Business Report and Sport Today are replaced at 2330, 0030, 0130 in America with repeats of World News America, current affairs and lifestyle programmes (Our World, Click).
What does the North America feed show during the time it opts out from Asia business?
Europe Direct was originally a one hour News 24/World simulcast at 2000 UK. (Remarkable given all the fuss when Outside Source was simulcast two decades later).
It included a news bulletin, sports round-up, reports, interviews and discussions, alongside a full European weather forecast near the end.
Presented from the News 24 soft-set (used for Weekend 24), and located where Philip Hayton was doing Asia Today several years later in that video upthread!
A more informal affair than the traditional BBC World News bulletins of the time. News coverage of the Kosovo War led it being recorded and played out on World later in the evening in 1998 in a 50 minute slot, before being reduced to 30 minutes and then turned into a weekly magazine programme before vanishing altogether.
USA Direct (0005 UK) again was more informal and marked BBC World's advancement into the USA in 1997, following a distribution deal with Discovery. Until then, BBC World wasn't really available in the Americas - just Europe, Africa and Asia-Pacific - reflected in the time zones displayed in trailers during the 1995-1997 era.
It was the start of a battle for that timeslot, between catering for the Asia-Pacific morning audience and catering for the USA evening audience. The resolution of this battle is that nowadays, the North America feed opts out of Asia Business Report and Sport Today for three consecutive hours between 2300 & 0200 UK.
Talking about nostalgia: what was the difference between the generic programmes and Europe Direct / USA Direct previous to the 2000 rebranding? Was USA Direct a proto World News America live from Washington? I never saw recordings from both programmes
Europe Direct was originally a one hour News 24/World simulcast at 2000 UK. (Remarkable given all the fuss when Outside Source was simulcast two decades later).
It included a news bulletin, sports round-up, reports, interviews and discussions, alongside a full European weather forecast near the end.
Presented from the News 24 soft-set (used for Weekend 24), and located where Philip Hayton was doing Asia Today several years later in that video upthread!
A more informal affair than the traditional BBC World News bulletins of the time. News coverage of the Kosovo War led it being recorded and played out on World later in the evening in 1998 in a 50 minute slot, before being reduced to 30 minutes and then turned into a weekly magazine programme before vanishing altogether.
USA Direct (0005 UK) again was more informal and marked BBC World's advancement into the USA in 1997, following a distribution deal with Discovery. Until then, BBC World wasn't really available in the Americas - just Europe, Africa and Asia-Pacific - reflected in the time zones displayed in trailers during the 1995-1997 era.
It was the start of a battle for that timeslot, between catering for the Asia-Pacific morning audience and catering for the USA evening audience. The resolution of this battle is that nowadays, the North America feed opts out of Asia Business Report and Sport Today for three consecutive hours between 2300 & 0200 UK.
Asia Business Report and Sport Today are replaced at 2330, 0030, 0130 in America with repeats of World News America, current affairs and lifestyle programmes (Our World, Click).
