BBC World joins News 24

Dont know if this happens often, but BBC World appears to have joined News 24 this afternoon with coverage of the storming of the Georgian parliament. Peter Sissons is presenting.

Usually the on-duty World presenter will break in to programming rather than going to News 24. I wonder if this is happening this afternoon so that they can both here the same correspondents rather than the two channels having to compete with each other, or if the World presenter is tied up somewhere else? Who's supposed to be on World at the moment?

Not sure who is on this afternoon, but it was Anita McNaught from 10am (Paris time) this morning. Anyway, its good to see Sissons handling a hard breaking story that requires some immediate knowledge of the history, whch he obviously has.

Yes, he handled it very well indeed. World have just opted out of News 24, and are now covering it themselves with Adrian Finighan.

This could have occured due it being the change in shifts at BBC World. For instance BBC World will not normally have anyone available between 0030 UK (after the 0000 bulletin) and 0100 (joint service start) unless there is an ongoing breaking news story. Or the presenter may be on a break.

I think Adrian must have been on a break, because the presenter change would have taken place between 1130 and 1200 - the news out of Georgia broke at about 1315 - an hour into the shift.

Joint productions between News 24 and World usually occur when a big international news story is being covered. It allows for a much easier operation in that correspondents and guests don't have to do everything twice. However, with the commercial pressures on BBC World, co-presented programmes don't usually last for more than 1/2 an hour or so (World has commercial breaks and other broadcasters opt in to it for their international news at certain times of the day: BBC America and CBC to name two).

Big news events also get co-productions: Concorde's final landing at Heathrow for example.

And tonight News 24 has joined BBC World for more Georgia coverage.

Yup. You can normally tell because of the different astons, and "Live" goes up to the top and doesn't line up with the BBC News 24 dog.

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/r.hardy63/lee/stuff/bbcworldon24.jpg

well only one more week of that

They finally realised did they?

So are BBC News 24 and BBC World both having identical graphics or will they be slightly varied from each other?