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There seems little reason to change half an hour of the 8am/9am UK schedule for the benefit of North America, where it's the middle of the night. European countries, where much of the target audience for World News early output will reside, change clocks at the same time as the UK, unless a particular hour of the new Live with Lucy Hockings is being shown on PBS in the USA?
It still doesn't excuse the absence of a full bulletin at 0800 UK even if for one week until North America change, given the staff and resources are there, shifts are based on UK time, all other programmes before and after are fixed on UK time and they are perfectly able to output a full bulletin on any other week.
It also seems to be a terrible hole in the schedule not to have a regular full bulletin at either 0800 or 0900 UK.
Gone are the times when vast parts of the BBC World schedule shifted an hour back at the end of October so the times for the main news targeted at Asia-Pacific viewers stayed the same. Focus on Africa and World News America are exceptions, presumably because of simulcasts with local stations.
Even Newsday - essentially a breakfast show for Asia - is fixed to UK time, meaning it starts an hour later for viewers in Asia through the northern hemisphere winter.
Some of the schedule changes could be down to North America not changing their clocks until early November.
There seems little reason to change half an hour of the 8am/9am UK schedule for the benefit of North America, where it's the middle of the night. European countries, where much of the target audience for World News early output will reside, change clocks at the same time as the UK, unless a particular hour of the new Live with Lucy Hockings is being shown on PBS in the USA?
It still doesn't excuse the absence of a full bulletin at 0800 UK even if for one week until North America change, given the staff and resources are there, shifts are based on UK time, all other programmes before and after are fixed on UK time and they are perfectly able to output a full bulletin on any other week.
It also seems to be a terrible hole in the schedule not to have a regular full bulletin at either 0800 or 0900 UK.
Gone are the times when vast parts of the BBC World schedule shifted an hour back at the end of October so the times for the main news targeted at Asia-Pacific viewers stayed the same. Focus on Africa and World News America are exceptions, presumably because of simulcasts with local stations.
Even Newsday - essentially a breakfast show for Asia - is fixed to UK time, meaning it starts an hour later for viewers in Asia through the northern hemisphere winter.