BBC News Channel Presentation - 21/03/16 onwards

World and NC were sharing coverage on the Saudi journalist story from Tim in Turkey and someone forgot to take the strap down before NC opted in

Tim (Willcox) is in Saudi Arabia covering the Davos of the Desert summit.

Something i've just noticed on Digiguide-it seems There is a new News at 9 (at 9:00am) bulletin from November 5th down on the BBC News Channel schedules with Victoria Derbyshire being reduced to an hour from 10:00am.

What's down for BBC2 at that time?

The same! It's been on the BBC2 provisional listings all week but i naturally thought it was an error!

Seems an odd decision if true. Why not just have Victoria at 9am and then start Newsroom Live at 10am?

An hour of rolling news from 9am? Good heavens!

Or is it a sign that the Victoria Derbyshire program is somehow (and finally) falling out of favor and might be gone in the next round of cuts as there has to be a reason for it going down to just an hour.

Anyhow if true nice to see another hour of rolling news gained back and that's on top of us getting the 2nd edition of the Papers back to weekdays (and rid of the Newsnight repeat thank heavens) at the start of The World Cup so that's an hour and 3/4 gained back since then in terms of rolling news

An extra hour of proper news rather than VD, the horror

Studio B doesn't need staffed for that extra hour. There would be a pointless gap in between Derbyshire and GMT. Of course they could then bring the 11:00am edition from B, but the first hour is still from C anyway.

But they are then having to staff Studio E to do the 0900 hour?

Perhaps it's being phased out due to the fact that the person whom the programme is named after doesn't actually present it, half the sodding time?!

See also ITV's "Lorraine" programme, amongst other things.

Some channel or other might as well have a news and/or topical magazine programme called "Lord Lucan"...