I haven't watched an overnight BBC News 24 bulletin for a while, and was wondering which titles are now used? It was simple after the 2003 re-launch, as both channels had orange titles, so they were used but branded only "BBC News". Since BBC News 24 has adopted red titles and BBC World has kept the orange ones, what exactly is used overnight these days?
Also, who's presenting them now - is it still Alastair Yates and Deborah MacKenzie? Has Martine Croxall returned?
And Alistair and Deborah are still there - in fact Alistair did an Asia Today on Sunday night and handed back to Deborah for the headlines.
Ah, that would be because he's been doing a few shifts on BBC World News at the weekends. They record an edition of Asia Today on Sunday, and play it out at 23.45, followed by News 24 at 03.30.
I suppose it's no more odd than seeing 24 at the TOTH on your screen all day then suddenly just BBC News.
Or that the BBC think it's a good idea to subject the night-time audience to world news only. Would it kill them to have say at least 1 UK-biased news programme at maybe 3am? I'm thinking of people who work evening/late night and sleep during the day.
Why doesn't the Beeb make use of their overseas bureaux to anchor programmes overnight, esp on BBC World? It'd mean less overnight working in London, because staff are awake in other parts of the world.
Although they don't all have full broadcast facilities, places like New York have a gallery that could do an hour or so and then pass on to the next time zone - CNN style?
Although they don't all have full broadcast facilities, places like New York have a gallery that could do an hour or so and then pass on to the next time zone - CNN style?
That would be great fun, although I suspect it would end up being a lot more expensive.
Or that the BBC think it's a good idea to subject the night-time audience to world news only. Would it kill them to have say at least 1 UK-biased news programme at maybe 3am? I'm thinking of people who work evening/late night and sleep during the day.
Or perhaps a proper UK bulletin at 3:30am, which is a bit more practical.
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The World Today still has an orange globe with orange and red ribbons AFAICR.
Well I probably wont get much sleep tonight - i get my exam results in the morning so Ill have a look i on BBC 1 at 5 and tell you what the World Today uses.