BBC World News: Presentation

Why!?

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i thought Martine Dennis is the news reader every friday? i hope it's temporary.
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at :30 past hour (after World SID) i saw the countdown on the News Channel, WTF?

Its called filling in!

and yes, it was odd.

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I wonder why BBC World News don't have the box on their countdown?

Because it looks silly! (imo anyway)

I've disliked all these WNT programmes since they first appeared. They're hardly any different to any other news bulletin, in terms of both content and presentation. In my opinion, BBC World better served each region of the world with programmes like Asia Today (where has that great programme gone?!), Europe Direct, Australia Direct, Africa Direct and USA Direct. If news from any particular region is important enough, it will feature in BBC News and the 'feature' reporting from the regions worked well in the 'Direct' strand years ago. Back then, if I wanted to hear news from a particular region, I knew which programme to watch. I honestly couldn't tell you what time I'd have to tune in now. If they're so concerned about serving each region with news bulletins, why not extend more BBC News bulletins to one hour and have two presenters, as the eye suggested. To repeat what BBC World have said about their weather forecasts in the past, people don't come to BBC World for local news; they come for global news. I say make BBC World a single global channel once again. If people want news from their local region, they'll watch their own broadcasters in their country. BBC World should be about the whole world, every hour. And what's to say only people in the USA are watching 'World News America'? I know I'm usually still up when it's on and I'm deterred from watching BBC World at that hour because I know the news will be heavily biased towards America. I want BBC World's agenda to be set by the news stories, not the region that supposedly has the most viewers that hour.

i'm just curious...
what are usually the times that the News Channel show BBC World News?

* 0500 UK time
* 2130 UK time

are there more?
because I've read on the News channel thread that they did not show the By-election but had shown World News...

EDIT: also... Aside from OVERNIGHTS.

The news channel simulcasts with World News for the first 30 minutes of each hour between 1am and 6am Monday - Friday and 12am - 6am weekends.

A rather quiet newsroom.....

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Janat Jalil filling in for Martine Dennis' weekend shift on Saturday (it was Karin Giannone last week). It was also nice to see Juliette Foster anchoring the midweek BBC World News, and not just her normal weekend appearances.

I am still really loving the new set, although some of the camera angles look to be a bit too tight to accommodate the long screen, meaning the presenter seated at the desk appears to be at an awfully strange angled / contorted head position.

Tim Willcox - was just filling in?

I only managed to spot one staff in the top right hand corner!

They don't really show World News at 2130 - apart from the 1 minute summary at the top - the rest is only on the News Channel.