BBC World News: Presentation

Could anyone cap the Aftershock opening titles, I quite like the music.

Never mind Aftershock, Damo, where have you been for the last many months?????? I've been missing you actually.

Really enjoyed yesterday's WNT from Singapore and agree fully with the post above. The programme was fast paced, lively and informative. Today, it's back to being Geeta in the studio................

........followed by Nisha Pillai, who is in for Nik Gowing. Always a pleasure to see Nisha on the channel. One of BBCW's pioneers.

This thread from another forum may interest some of you.

http://www.mausoleumclubforum.org.uk/xmb/viewthread.php?tid=19541

I note too that almost all the presenters seem to be Indians or Asians, with an Aussie bloke with excited eyebows and a windswept hairdo reading the sports news.

Quoted from your link, Stuart, with thanks.

Who is the Aussie bloke he is referring to? The only one I can think of is Aaron Heslehurst, but he is biz.

I have to agree with some of the points raised on that forum. For me, in 2009, BBC World is a shadow of its former self. It used to be such a varied and interesting channel and one could easily sit there for ages without becoming bored by the programming. Now, it's wall-to-wall news and once you've seen one hour, there's nothing more to watch. It's sadly just become a clone of BBC News 24/Channel (whatever you want to call it). Sadly, I only discovered BBC World in 2000 and I suspect James can remember a time when BBC World was even better in the 1990s. However, even in just the decade since I started watching it has declined, in my opinion. Of course we'll probably get the usual candidates popping up saying that BBC World has now doubled its audience and is actually making a profit rather than a loss...fine, but I don't think it's at its best in 2009. Sadly, those days are long gone.

I've been catching part of the 530am to 6am simulcast on BBC One lately.(Due to personal reasons!)

How rare do they mistime the bit for the UK business news opt out (around 545am), because the bird that was presenting today ran out of time before the opt in crashed in?

They're normally very good.

It's been a while since I've regularly watched BBC World, so can anyone provide me with any up-to-date information about who presents each shift? Does Nik Gowing still regularly present? What about David Jessel?

Not if Tim Wilcox has had anything to do with it

Broadly as follows, Rob (Current UK Time) the regular anchors are as follows:

5am Martine or JC
6am Martine or JC
7am Martine or JC
8am Lucy or David (Eades, not Jessel)
9am Lucy AND David (Fridays: JC and Geeta)
10am Lucy AND David (Fridays: JC and Geeta)
11am Lucy or David
12pm George (JC Fridays)
1pm Lucy or David
2pm Mishal (Fridays Lyse)
3pm Mishal (Fridays Lyse)
4pm Mishal (Fridays Lyse)
5pm Nik (Mondays Lyse / sometimes Tuesday's too)
6pm Nik (Mondays and sometimes Tuesdays Lyse)
7pm Zeinab (Wednesday Kirsty Lang)
8pm Zeinab (Wednesday KL, Fridays Juliette)
9pm Mike Embley
10pm Tanya (Thursday and Friday Juliette)
11pm Mike Embley

Weekends

Morning shift: Jannat Jalil or Owen Thomas
Mid shift: Peter Dobbie
Late shift: Komla Dumor or Jannat Jalil

........ish

Thanks, James. Gosh, Nik Gowing's air time has been drastically cut, hasn't it? I remember a time when he used to present for at least 4 hours a day. It seems strange to have David Eades and Lucy Hockings and Mishal Husain hogging the mornings and afternoons respectively, while Nik and Mike Embley only get a couple of bulletins. When I stopped regularly watching the channel, there was a much more even split of presenters and shifts.

I'm glad Lyse is still getting regular shifts - but no Nisha Pillai??!! She was always a star of the channel!

Nik will appear for one additional hour per day once the clocks go forward. Because either his or ZB's bulletin is fixed/anchored to GMT (can't remember which) it means that the gap between Nik and Zeinab bulletins increases to three hours. Currently in BST it is only two hours.

Nisha Pillai appears very very rarely and only as a fill-on on one of the WNT programmes. Lyse is probably the most regular evening fill-in. JC tends to float around the schedules and will pop-up almost anywhere. He does multiple shifts on a Friday. (often the two double headers plus two WNT's).

Peter Dobbie sometimes appears midweek too, but in no particular slot.

It has to be Nicks as Zeinab's has the honor of opening UK channel BBC FOUR's schedule every evening.