BBC World News from New Broadcasting House

The thing with Business Edition though was that is wasn't just business news, so your point about no Business in the first half hour still stands. Business Edition was a good mixture of world news and business. With the 60 minute thing - I believe at one point it was advertised as being for the whole hour, but like the Second 'half' hour of Impact, Global, The Hub, WNT, etc. finished at about 10 to the hour anyway. Back half hour's on BBC World News are nothing like the schedules - Sport Today is rarely more than about 7 minutes long and often starts before quarter to.

Not sure how I feel about this change. WNT is pretty much killed off, it used to be a dedicated evening bulletin with senior anchor, analysis of day events and in depth interviews. Since Zeinab left it's been presented by everyone and lost the essence. With the latest changes it was reduced to two 30 min editions and now just one.

My EPG says it's just BBC World News at 20.00 cet tonight so maybe they better scrap it all together. No point in special branding when it's nothing special anymore. Plus the whole European evening line-up is too messy at the moment with a different show name each hour. They are trying to outCNN CNN, not realizing that CNN has returned to more rolling news style and increased the hours of its basic newscast (CNN Newsroom).

Just think that the orange on this OTS graphic is really bad... Much prefer the white that they use for London.

"grounded", surely?

White or orange, they seem a bit out of place. They're also close to being not 4:3 friendly. I think they could be cleaned up a bit by having all or none of the text in bold, shrinking the text size slightly, and then spacing each line out to form a rectangle.

For me, it felt like WNT was a break from the standard bulletins, like an AJE Newshour.

If anyone's interested I'm now taking bets on when the first fantasy rota to 'fix' this will be posted.

I'm not saying anything about the size of the studio, merely pointing out that the link isn't great as it's an insert studio. I remember that World Buisness Report but it was for a short time, which is standard interview length, whereas this is a full half-hour programme jointly presented from either side of the Atlantic that makes all the difference. I had also stated that if it was possible then to use DC as a relay but if not then to use the studios there as it is more suited to this kind of programme and agree that a buisness programme should come from New York. I was just trying to think practically to make the programme better.

Not a fantasy rota but to fix this, simply keep the WNT presenter at the desk and pass to them for a 2-minute summary after the Buisness Live introduction. Agreed totally it should be in the back half-hour. This would make any UK simulcast much simpler!

Why is there a sudden change to standing by the window in Singapore for Newsday at 7am local time? I hope this stays as it's also nice!

Put it in the back half hour, and it can be a proper "countdown to the close" and round off the trading day. CNN used to have World Business Today at 8.30pm and they would hand over to World News Europe (at the time) when the bell rang, probably because they'd run out of stuff to talk about...

The original 2130 GMT edition of WBR was in fact 30 minutes long and presented from both London and New York throughout. An edited version used to be shown on BBC News 24 overnight, but the full programme was half an hour for many years.

It's where business presenters Mishal Husain and Adrian Finighan first joined forces, if I'm not mistaken, preceded by Paddy O'Connell and Richard Quest.

Can't they use the old Newsday style introduction for Buisness Live in the evening?

Can I put £1 on 5pm tomorrow and £1 split on the even days of the rest of this month?