BBC World News - to 14th January 2013

What would be the point of that? At the moment the regular simulcasts are at the start and end of the British broadcasting day - The World Today at 0500 and Newsday late into the night. These are times when BBC World handles production and no domestic News Channel team is needed, hence saving money.

If BBC News produced a bulletin for BBC World at 2130, what would be the cost saving? The BBC World team would still need to be around to produce BBC World's programming after 2200. And 2130 has always been the main slot for broadcasting Hard Talk during European primetime, so that's definitely more beneficial to viewers than another news bulletin.

I know they also do simulcasts at 1130 and 1900, but those aren't with the BBC News Channel. They are specific programmes for BBC2 and BBC4 respectively, which save those channels money.

I was thinking more of variety of content for the News Channel rather then any cost savings. I know that both the News channel and BBC World News can access the same filed reports anyway so if there is an international story of interest the News channel presenter can lead into it just as well as a World presenter but still 20 out of 24 hours a weekday is a BBC News TOTH, surely the channel can spare one or two BOTH a weekday to put on an in depth program like Hard Talk or World Business Report at a time when UK viewers might actually see it. Or start making their own versions of programs like this.

The Hard Talk I mentioned airing at 2130 is on BBC World, not BBC News. That showing of Hard Talk is aimed at European viewers during their eveninprime-timeme. I really don't think BBC World are going to want to drop or move that just so BBC News viewers in the UK can get a bit of variety. We get a good selection of international stories on BBC News anyway, and the stuff that isn't included is usually of marginal interest, such as a landslip in Guatemala. You may remember that many years ago BBC World used to produce a 30-minute world news bulletin for BBC News 24 at 0930 every morning, but that bit the dust a few years back.

A New Program on the Schedules - BBC World News London Live. From 23rd July.

That 930 prog used to disappear on a Saturday if the Breakfast programme was still being simulcast with BBC One.

Noticed South Today's Catharina Moh with a package about a Bob Hope exhibition tonight on World News Today.

When will it air?

Looks like a change of name for the standard bulletins - wonder if that will include some new branding or if it's just what they're calling it in the schedule now?

I think it's just an Olympic thing. All World News stuff is being branded like this until the Games are over. I think they're broadcasting from near the Olympic stadium throughout.

Ah, that makes sense. Thank you.

As international viewers may have missed if they've not ventured over to the BBC 2012 thread, the BBC have a couple of locations 'outside the fence' where a whole lot of their news coverage will be coming from during the Games.

This is the view from one of them:
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World will broadcast from here for much of the day. In the evening, BBC London will take over their studio, so World will move to another building that's not got quite so panoramic views, but is a bit nearer the stadium.

By the end it was on Sundays only