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The BBC's Global 24 Hour News Channel (April 2008)

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MohammedHasanie
I find it better when Hardtalk comes from that studio than TC7 that they usually use. Most of the time, the studio is so dark, and so empty with just two chairs facing each other.
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zack11
Good News For BBC WORLD NEWS/ WORLD NEWS AMERICA

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‘BBC World News' Boosted By Global Reports
BBC America newscast sees increase in week heavy on international news
By Alex Weprin -- Broadcasting & Cable, 6/12/2009 9:10:22 AM MT

BBC World News America, BBC America's nightly newscast has been the recipient of a ratings boost of late. While the newscast, anchored by Matt Frei, has been seeing long term growth since it launched in October 2007, it is when there is an international event that it really shines.

This week, with the aftermath of Air France flight 447 and President Obama's trip to the Middle East and Europe, the newscast has been in its comfort zone, and viewers have followed.

"We have had a very encouraging response both in terms of ratings and critical reaction and viewer reaction," says BBC World News America executive producer Rome Hartman. "For those of us working really hard that have high hopes for the program, it is encouraging to see results like this."

Monday evening the newscast posted a .14 rating in the key news demo of persons 25-54 on its 7 p.m. airing. That tied Lou Dobbs on CNN, and beat Larry Kudlow on CNBC (.08 rating). It also put the Beeb's newscast within striking distance of MSNBC and HLN.

The Monday numbers continue a trend from last week, which saw the newscast average a .10 demo rating.

"It is heartening to see that when you account for the fact BBC America does not have the distribution of many of our competitors, we are very close [in terms of ratings]," Hartman says. "My hope is that they will like what they see and they will come back."
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bakamann
off-topic:

wow... BBC World News had let BBC Persian use their Washington studio for the Iraninan Elections...
http://img366.imageshack.us/img366/7636/bbcpersianwashington.png
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noggin Founding member
theBlockerPH posted:
off-topic:

wow... BBC World News had let BBC Persian use their Washington studio for the Iraninan Elections...


The studio is owned by BBC News, who provide the news programming for the BBC World News channel, not by BBC World News themselves. The BBC News channel and other BBC programmes (like Newsnight and Election programmes) routinely use the studio.

BBC Arabic and BBC Farsi are funded by the BBC World Service, which is funded separately (Foreign and Commonwealth Office grant-in-aid I believe) to the main BBC News operation (licence fee and payment from the BBC World News channel), but there is a strong sense of sharing and co-operation, and now joint management. Just as BBC World Service stringers and reporters appear on BBC World News and other BBC News output, there can be sharing of facilities.
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Bvsh Hovse
theBlockerPH posted:
off-topic:
wow... BBC World News had let BBC Persian use their Washington studio for the Iraninan Elections...


What I think the grab illustrates best is is how easily BBC Persian fit into that studio. I know a lot of people think the uniform branding across the BBC is boring, but this is why it works so well. All that's changed is a few lights have been reprogrammed, which will have cost nothing. Compare that to work and cost involved in having to ship out a new backdrop and furniture, get it installed, maybe get the lights refocused then return everything back to normal afterwards.
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FactorFiles
Bit of weirdness after the 1 minute summary - picture hold for a while at the end, then faded to black. After a few seconds of black it faded back into the breakfiller, which ran for 20 seconds or so, then faded to the start of HardTalk. No ident, continuity announcement... never seen that before.

EDIT: That was also weird. At the end of Hard Talk, Stephen said "Thank you very much for spea-" and then it cut back to a minute earlier in the interview, and we watched the end again.

And now the breakfiller is the offline version. And they keep showing the same trails over and over again. Serious problems they're having there obviously.
Last edited by FactorFiles on 15 June 2009 4:59am - 3 times in total
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JamesWorldNews
What studio is Alastair Yates broadcasting from just now? It is not the regular World studio, and neither does it appear to be the News 24 studio, although the desk is similar to News 24's.
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bilky asko
BBC WORLD posted:
What studio is Alastair Yates broadcasting from just now? It is not the regular World studio, and neither does it appear to be the News 24 studio, although the desk is similar to News 24's.


As far as I can tell, it's N6 - the normal News Channel studio. Infact, I'm 100% sure.
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JamesWorldNews
It looks tiny, almost shoebox size.
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JamesWorldNews
Peter Dobbie and Sally Bundock doing The World Today, today!! First time I've seen Sally for ages.
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JamesWorldNews
"And now we are returning to Tehran, where we can talk to...........a man..........who is in Tehran.......and we will talk to him now.........can you hear me?"

Geeta Guru-Murthy - buzzing with several items of Breaking News all at once.............well done, girl!
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JamesWorldNews
And also well done to Kirsty Lang who managed to retain her composure on WNT whilst almost losing her voice several times during one of the junctions of the bulletin. (Having to duck under the desk to grab an on-air glass of water whilst we all waited, yet still managed a two-way with Jon Leyne in.....................Tehran. Place of the day!)

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