BBC World News from New Broadcasting House

Will be interesting to see how they handle the subsequent hours as well, given that C is needed for the 5.

The 5 can go to A if needed I guess.

They seem to be in B now

Interesting on BBC World News just now as it's now playing out the BBC News Channel.

World and the NC have simulcasted overnight for as long as I can remember

As far as I can tell, News 24 and World used to have separate feeds from the beginning of News 24 in 1997. This continued for maybe half a year until the BBC found it was not cost effective to have two different presenters and so from some point in 1998 the overnight programme was 'BBC News'

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That's a big conclusion to jump to...

Suspect the reality is that the plan was always to run a joint service - but News 24 was using very advanced (i.e. not really ready or robust) technology for semi-automated news production, and it needed a bit of time to bed in before it was exposed to a global audience...

It isn't really that big a conclusion. 2 galleries, 2 presentation teams, essentially covering the same breaking news all night every night. Makes sense to cut that duplication.

I think Noggin's point is that you are assuming that it was not always the plan to have a joint programme after the technology had bedded in.

Since 30th March 1998.

BBC World Teletext (and the breakfillers at the time) billed the overnight bulletins as "BBC News followed by Weather", rather than "BBC World News and weather", as used for all other bulletins.
This was also the time when the morning newsblock for Europe, previously "Newsday" from 0600-0900 CET, and from end of October 1997 "The World Today"* from 0700-0830 CET was abolished and replaced by normal half hour bulletins - 0600 CET was the last hour of the simulcast (0500 UKT), 0700 and 0800 CET were standard World News bulletins.

*Newsday, Newsdesk and Newshour Asia-Pacific all rebranded "The World Today" on 27th October 1997. At this time, the overnight newsblocks were downgraded into normal news bulletins. World Report (2300 CET-0100 CET) and BBC Newsroom (0200-0500 CET) were axed. Newsnight at 0110 CET was also removed from the schedule, partly replaced by USA Direct from News 24 from November 1997.

(By April 2000 all "World Today" blocks were axed, although the name returned to the European early morning newsblock in 2001, which I think was the first BBC World-produced news bulletin in the simulcast slot, as opposed to BBC World simulcasting News 24-produced bulletins.)

And then around the time BBC News lost the 24 and BBC World gained "News" the simulcasts stopped being BBC News 24 production for BBC World and became a BBC World News production for BBC News.

Kind of ironic that all these show names were axed. Then slowly over recent years 'Newsday', 'BBC Newsroom Live' and 'World News Today' have come about.