BBC World News - to 14th January 2013

Is there no end to Lyse's talents? She can also kick a ball around! Albeit with Thabo Mbeke, Desmond Tutu et al.

And where is Geeta Guru-Murty on a Friday? Surely she could come in and save us from nine hours of Tim Willcox again, as has been the case today!

Currently watching the 12amUK bulletin on BBC News which I think is also going out on BBC World. However on the BBC World schedule it only last 10 minutes, whereas on BBC News it last 30 minutes. There was no obvious opt-out point for BBC World. Do they just abruptly leave BBC News in these circumstances. (Even if the midnight bulletin isn't a joint BBC World bulletin I would be interested to know how this is handled in other hours)

They normally just leave the end frame of a report on for a couple of seconds in situations like that.

Jonathan Charles anchoring The World Today live from Madrid this morning and doing admirably well to contain the late night straggling fans still celebrating behind him at 0600hrs local time.

Sally Bundock holding the fort with the rest of the news back in London. Not sure if she is also doing the Biz news or if someone else will pop up for the biz?

Edit: Yes, Sally is rolling-on with the business segment and WBR as well as doing the other news. JC only doing the football stuff from Madrid.

Strap alert: "WOLRD CUP 2010" during the quarter-to-the-hour headline recall.

I think the strap-man has been up all night watching the World Cup and has developed sausage fingers above his keyboard.

I thought 12am was BBC News on UK only usually presented by Chris Eakin and BBC World News America on BBC World News.

Alleged new World Countdown revealed on facebook tonight ....

WWW.FACEBOOK.COM/VIDEO

Lovely end music. Again.

Wow, that's poor. Random audio 'whooshes' everywhere, presumably because this is an earlier edit of the music that hasn't been re-edited to match the visuals of the red news 'beams'.

An equally poor effort with tacking the BBC World News jingle on to the end of the countdown. A terrible mess and a huge missed opportunity to create something new, but familiar, and above all, coherent.

Eugh.

and again, failing to postprocess the new footage so it had the sepia effect the original 2005 footage has, and holding on to footage for too long again. It only works right when you quickly flit between shots, if you hang on to the same person it doesn't have the same "look at how big and impressive we are" effect.

Nowhere was this more clear than the News 24 effort where it hung on Kate Silverton walking over the bridge for what seemed like 88 seconds

It was Saturday night/Sunday morning. IIRC the joint bulletins start an hour earlier at weekends

Busy day for JC, today. 3 hours of The World Today segment early on. Followed later in the day with GMT. And a couple of HardTalk's in between...............

At least he and Peter Dobbie are in matching shirts and almost identical ties.

I guess the small inserts (featuring correspondents) now randomly shown within the ad-breaks are just to whet our appetite for the new coutndowns?