BBC World News from New Broadcasting House

It does annoy me that BBC World News is still broadcast letterbox 14L12 in SD regions where 16P16 is not widespread, yet the teams making content for it seem to ignore (or be told not to consider0 the requirement to stay 14:9 graphics safe. When I was in India I stopped watching World on my hotel because so much was illegible. It's a particular problem on the stuff that has no reporter track and is just graphic-led.

I understand the reasons for using 14L12 (4:3 material was traditionally converted to 16:9 using 14P16, so when it was shown 14L12 it returned to the same size, albeit with a top/bottom crop) - and 16L12 is unpopular in many areas. But it does feel as if content should respect that (which will probably mean BBC News Channel domestic stuff should too)

BBC World is still in SD only on Verizon Fios here in New York. I ended up paying for SlingTV so get it in HD.

SD and 14:9 Newsroom?

I know someone in Philly who still has BBC World News in 14:9 through his cable provider.

What's odd too is that the feed that Comcast provides via streaming on XTV is 16:9 HD...it's only the actual channel on cable that's still in 14:9 letterboxed in a 4:3 signal.

That's because the Xfinity Stream app and others use the TV Everywhere feed.

Advanced schedules now confirm that 100 Days+ ( or whatever it ends up being called ) returns to BBC World News on Monday 12th September 2017. It's currently billed as two half hour editions ( like Outside Source ) from 1900 UK.

365 Days. 🤑

That implies they need to be on every day of the year...it's the BBC, they'll take any chance for a day off!!

If it's still going by then, week they rename it to 366 Days in 2020?

No. It’ll be 365 days plus!

Studio B has been out of use this afternoon, talking business coming from C as a result of technical issues.