BBC News: Presenters & Rotas

Alice Baxter doing Newsday today. As mentioned before, Babita on another program this week. Does anyone think Newsday is a little bit less highly ranked as shows like World News Today or GMT? It seems Newsdays always get alternate presenters who usually do sit-ins for programs when their main anchors are away, or maybe that's what happens to any others the likes of GMT/WNT.

I caught Newsday a couple of times this week, and I actually do prefer Daniela Ritorto to Babita. What is the actual point of Newsday though?

Is it aimed at the US Viewers or Asia viewers as I can't work out which one it is...

It's aimed at the Asian breakfast market (with Impact being their evening program), 2am onwards is aimed at the US market with it being simulcast on some pbs stations.

Yup, it's most likely the Asian audience, when it's broadcast in Singapore, Malaysia, Taipei, Hong Kong, Beijing and Perth at 6-8am. It used to be 7-9am, but somewhere in the middle of the year London's time undergone some Daylight Savings or so, and Newsday becomes synced to 6-8am since then. I can appreciate Alice Baxter on Newsday, compared to her appearance on World Today slot or the other generic bulletins. I think her bubbly character suits Newsday's vibe as the morning show for Asians. Babita does seem a little too serious imo.

I noticed there were some comments about Newsday being too 'bright' or so, but it probably may seem little strange when it's midnight in the other side of the globe watching a morning-oriented program for the other half. Having said that, I do agree with some comments about the delays between the 2 anchors which can be annoying, and some lines they say to close/open the program as well as handing over which sounds cheesy.

Newsday is after all very much the essential news like TOTH, but a light difference I can think of in that, it features interviews with those located in Asia, particularly S'pore and occasional skype-style interview with people from Australasia. Not sure about this, but Newsday may ocassionally feature some Asian news pieces that would have been ignored were it a TOTH? I also feel that Newsday's news is usually pretty much the same as in the hours preceding it. The next TOTH after Newsday usually has more changes to the headlines.

The American target time slot will definitely be the one prior to Newsday, where World News America is. But in the TOTH after Newsday, the anchors will always mention the Americans in the opening too, in the usual line 'Broadcasting to our viewers on public television in the US and around the globe'.

I feel like ratings were quite low between 23.00 and 02.00 GMT so they thought they'd give the time slot its own program to try and increase ratings. Considering the quality of guests that usually come, I don't think ratings have improved much.

Is Mishal still on Impact? Has she been on this week?

I agree.


Yup, she most definitely is. Monday and Tuesday I can confirm. I did has a screencap of her on Monday in the BBC Studios thread.

Alice Baxter on the BBC domestic News channel this morning presenting 'Your Money, with Alice Baxter'. Nice for us domestic viewers.

Mike Embley on GMT. That's a first, I think. Haven't seen Mike on daytime in ages.

Ian Pannell presenting on the NC now with Emily Maitlis. First time we've seen this.

Edit (for houses benefit): He looks more like a BBC World News Presenter

He did present BBC World News America once before.