BBC News: Presenters & Rotas

Yes, BBC World News’s countdown is played out by presentation (RedBee Media). The news channel countdown is played out by Gallery C. C cut to presenter in vision just before the top of the hour to allow World to join cleanly. That’s why the countdowns aren’t in synch. But no one generally will be in a position to watch both side by side so it doesn’t really matter.

Andrew Plant presenting on BBC World News just now, filling in for Ben Bland.

I’ve never seen Andrew Plant before.

^ replaced at 7G by Tim.

Vicki Young now doing a short 9pm bulletin - World News on the News Channel cancelled as BBC One bulletin crashing in at 9.15.

I don't understand why news channel hasn't stuck with World news this week and last for the 9pm.

Does seem the perfect time for a regular World News bulletin.

Better get used to it as it's happening the next 2 Saturdays as well (i.e The late BBC1 Bulletin is down for 9:10 for the next 2 weeks.)

The videos aren’t in sync either because one is terrestrial and the other is on satellite and there are delays on each. Also as the NC has to use the WN BH gallery overnight, there is some delay to allow the two to merge (WN is using RedBee).

The satellite/terrestrial issue is more a case of the editor's skill in syncing the two independent recordings. But they did a nice job of making it look like the two way boxes.

Since the move to NBH - the NC Countdown is, in effect 58 seconds (88 in some cases - known to directors as the 90")
This was done to allow BBC1/2/World to join the channel cleanly - so the Presenter (Or Titles) are cut to air at the -2" so they get a clean opt in.
So that countdowns didn't have to be altered every hour dependant of when/if a network was or was not joining the decision to make it consistent throughout the day was made so the workflow is the same hour after hour, 7 days a week.
So - if you are being pedantic - the NC actually counts down to xx:58.... but please don't tell the Daily Mail!

BTW - Happy 5th Anniversary BBC World News - 5 years to the day (at Noon) since NBH went on air with GMT.

Yes, it's because BBC One now has the new Hard Sun drama which is starting at around 9.30 each week. Personally I've already got used to it now and I rather like these diversions from the usual output, but that's probably just me. As people may know, I always like it when an unusual presenter presents on the BBC One bulletins themselves, it's the regular presenters I can't stand! (Only joking on that - I just like it when a presenter who rarely does such a bulletin turns up, which basically will always rule out whoever is doing it regularly at any one time. As soon as the regulars are changed to someone else, I will then fall out of wanting whoever new is doing them to do so and then start liking when a former regular turns up on a rare occasion. I just like the obscure - I'm a bit like that on the pop music charts as well, never liking whoever is popular, despite having like everything they did before becoming, and probably afterwards as well, but that I suspect is just me and is another story (probably showing my age as well).)



I think because the BBC One bulletin is now on during 9-9.30pm. However, I get what you mean - they could have missed the BBC One bulletin and taken World News Today, so that was the alternative they could have chosen. They did actually have the first twenty minutes of World News when the clash happened the first time, and then switched to the BBC One bulletin - a bit strange as the World News presenter had just said "Stay with us" but viewers on the News Channel in the UK were unable to do so - but obviously 15 minutes was too short for them to join the programme and then have a junction to leave. The other time they had a long interview during the hour with Martine Croxall, which had obviously been set up to cover when World News would have ordinarily been on but before BBC One bulletin now started - it was actually helpful and useful to do the interview piece as it fortuitously fitted conveniently at that time and inputted into a highly relevant domestic story of the day. An opportunity created by the schedule clash that the BBC News Channel took.

Perhaps it does. That's only in the context of us having had World News regularly at this time for some time though - had they not put World News on (whether Outside Source or WNT) would we have been asking for it? Instead of us wanting to have the domestic news that everyone wants the BBC News Channel to be doing 24 hours a day and not simulcasting World News Today.