Yes, as Lyse Doucet mentioned on her twitter page, it's a truly global operation this week. Jonathan Charles is presenting live from Frankfurt (and now Madrid, it seems), Mishal Husain is live all week in Kuala Lumpur, Tim Willcox is live in Chile and Lyse (for a change) is back holding the fort in London. Additionally, Zeinab Badawi has been anchoring live from New York in recent days as well as Niger.
It looks like Impact Asia is now also airing on Fridays. It has occassionally been aired on past Fridays, but only when Mishal Husain has been available. Otherwise, World News Today normally airs if Mishal is not available.
Today, Impact is on, with Lyse Doucet. (It's her usual Friday timeslot anyway - just a different brand).
Lyse also filled-in for Zeinab Badawi last night on WNT. Lyse rarely appears in that slot.
It looks like Impact Asia is now also airing on Fridays. It has occassionally been aired on past Fridays, but only when Mishal Husain has been available. Otherwise, World News Today normally airs if Mishal is not available.
Today, Impact is on, with Lyse Doucet. (It's her usual Friday timeslot anyway - just a different brand).
Lyse also filled-in for Zeinab Badawi last night on WNT. Lyse rarely appears in that slot.
I saw Zeinab has filled in for George yesterday,
Not GMT for today though, I wonder if BBC America has the done the same.
BBC World Service won't get any funding from the Foreign Office anymore - Sky.
Presumably there will be calls in the media to close BBC Persian and BBC Arabic, on the basis that you can't expect licence fee payers to fund channels they can't receive.
BBC World Service won't get any funding from the Foreign Office anymore - Sky.
Presumably there will be calls in the media to close BBC Persian and BBC Arabic, on the basis that you can't expect licence fee payers to fund channels they can't receive.
I'd imagine that this will be countered with the assertion that funding for those services would be drawn from profits returned to the BBC by Worldwide. Of course, the accounting will be a good deal more complex than that in reality, but if the Daily Mail brigade wish to boil it down to that kind of simple headline ("why should licence fee payers fund services they can't receive?"), then an equally basic counter-argument can be made ("they'll be funded from commercially-generated profits"). Worldwide returned operating profits of £145m during the last financial year - more than enough to fund the Arabic and Persian television services.
Maybe the arrangement will be more transparent than that, with Worldwide taking full control of PTV and ATV and turn them into commercial operations like World News - the requirement to sell off Worldwide was rather unexpectedly cancelled recently; perhaps this was factored in to that decision. Pure speculation of course - just thinking out loud.
Strange configuration tonight. Lyse Doucet soloing on all three editions of The Hub with no newsreader for the run-throughs.
Then at the B.O.T.H. at the end of the third segment, Jamie Robertson (and not Lyse) did the 1 minute summary, before re-appearing seconds later to do WBR.
Never seen this happening before. Also where is Tanya Beckett? She was only back for a few days and has disappeared again.
Lyse Doucet on World News Today; Johnathan Charles on GMT - and yesterday Kirsty Lang for a third day on World News Today! In a weird way, Zeinab presented GMT very well as did Johnathan Charles.
I'd love to see a shift-around on the World News 'news programmes'; George Alagiah should concentrate on The News at Six and Ten.
Strange intro into Zeinab Badawi tonight. After the countdown, straight into a short sting showing the programme caption (World News Today with ZB), and then Zeinab in vision announcing herself and the programme and going straight into the first story.
No in-vision intro as normal and no run through the headlines at all.
Strange intro into Zeinab Badawi tonight. After the countdown, straight into a short sting showing the programme caption (World News Today with ZB), and then Zeinab in vision announcing herself and the programme and going straight into the first story.
No in-vision intro as normal and no run through the headlines at all.
Strange.
is it only on the first half-hour? maybe there had been some program changes on BBC Four.
