"BBC WORLD"

MISSING - One edition of The World Today and World Business Report

REWARD - $5000

OK so I was shocked to see no one had posted this but did anyone notice that BBC News were facing technical problems this morning which meant that our usual edition of TWT and WBR were not shown, instead a pre-recorded overnight news programme with Alistair Yates (with 'RECORDED' dog) and a pre-recorded edition of WBR with Manisha and Tanya (again with a 'RECORDED' dog) this was spliced together with Martine and Sally live with the in-vision news headlines and market boards.

To me this suggests that there was a sever problem and TX played out the recorded programmes, I say this because there was no OOV element to the Martine and Sally sections, at one point Sally said to Martine "You've earnt your cup of tea this morning after that long read!".

Anyone got any factual information rather than just my guesses?

UPDATE - Now BBC News 24 is showing BBC World with Lucy Hocking? This programme is facing technical problems too, no BBC clock bug is on screen and on World its the static clockless bug.

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Read the Interesting Breakfast thread below - it partially explains what is going on, I think. Where did Martine and Sally present their insert live pieces from? The usual World desk?

Thanks BBC WORLD.

Martine and Sally presented the live inserts from the usual World desk. An intersting night I guess.

Nice to see Aaron Heslehurst presenting business news on World tonight. I assume that he'll also do the main edition of WBR together with Tanya Beckett. Will be fun to see them presenting together.

Interesting I just watched Tanya Beckett with Mike Embley on the 11pm BBC World News bulletin, didn't realise Tanya dis this as well!

Is there any chance of seeing the new Washington studio if you are a pleb who does not have BBCW?

I don't have a capture feed, but I know of a web feed, i'll see if I can capture from there next time!

It's on News 24 at least once a day with their US election featurettes.

I read a post a few pages up made by Dominic di Natale confirming that he would be the new desk presenterof WBR and Biz News on daytime bulletins. But all this week we had Darshini and Aaron at the desk and Dominic out on the streets????? Why?
Also, did anyone see Sonia Maclaughlin on Sports News duty yesterday call Martine Dennis "Maxine" twice? Miss Dennis did not appear to be amused. At`least Nisha Pillai heated up the frosty atmosphere at the top of the hour when she appeared on duty wearing a pair of curtains. (or looked like that anyway)

Great to see Tanya presenting World News from Washington last night too. Looks good alongside Mike Embley - good team.

oh right, when are those on?

Hi all you BBC World fans.....

Someone above - maybe TWT or itsrobert - can't find, so not sure - mentioned the fact that weekend news presenter on BBCW, Lucy Hockings (she does Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays) is actually a BBC World Producer, but helps out on the presenting roster due to shortage of presenters. I have two questions/observations:

1) She has been presenting now on BBCW for a hell of a long time, so why havent they sourced a real "newscaster" rather than using Lucy? (By the way, I actually think that she's very good and prefer that she remains);

2) If Lucy is a "producer", then where did she learn all of her presenting skills? This is a general question, not related only to Lucy, but to other non "camera facing" staff who find themselves on camera for whatever reason. ((This is a genuine question - i.e. BBC find themselves short of news presenters, so they select someone from behind the scenes to fill-in. This obviously just cannot be done overnight, and surely the person receives some sort of training and coaching. How is it done? Other examples of this could include Andrew Neil and Matthew Parris (MP who suddenly became the presenter of Weekend World).

I am intrigued as to how this just happens. If the stand in has to spend weeks in being coached in tv presentation skills, wouldnt it just be quicker and simpler to hire someone who is already a tv presenter/journalist??

Serious question. No slight at all on Lucy's skills. As I said above, I think she's excellent.

Lucy is a freelancer, so she is multi-skilled -- helps to keep her in a job! She learned her presenting skills in her native New Zealand. When she producers, she's apparently often the output editor in the gallery, and speaks to her other presenting colleagues via talkback. So, with all of those skills, she's very useful to BBC World!