I've just travelled with British Airways who have a partenership with BBC World. They have two programmes on, BBC World News from overnight (from N24 studio) is one of them. The two I saw were presented by Susan Osman and then Martine Croxall. The other is a special peogramme only for BA flights called BBC World News Week. It starts off with the BBC World News ident except at the end of it, instead of having BBC NEWS and BBC WORLD underneath, it had it like this:
BBC WORLD
News Week
BBC WORLD
It uses a headline bed after the opening titles, which is the usual world one.
The programme ends with the World News end titles, except having the layout above and the other stuff which is usually at the bottom. The one I saw was with Anita McNaught.
I was wondering why we never saw this ident, yes I have seen the ident you are referring to, however I have only seen this particular ident only once, when they played it out by accident, I think the News Week was in lower case as I remember it. Isn't this programme like 'This Week', or is it a round up of UK news?and was it presented from the World set?
lol!! I know - I felt like that. I got up at 2.30am to Susan Osman, then got on the plane and thought - great, it might be someone like Anita, Lyse or Martine. I then notice that it was the BBC News ident without the BBC WORLD at the bottom and then though - Susan Osman!! What they do at the end of the bulletin (which isn't at the end of the real N24 one, its before the *.15 summary of the headlines) is that they play the BBC World Ident out, not the News one. I got a couple of funny looks as I was humming along to the World News one!! It was great, so the way going we had individual TVs, so I had all 3 on, and coming back we had one large screen at the front of the cabin, so clear and big that I could read the place names which whizz round on the news ident!
To answer your questions harshy, yes it was from the BBC World studio. I would love to have this ident, but we are less likely to get this than Spotlight Channel Islands! For that we have James Ison and his whizzing aeriel on a tropical weather day!! And yes, News Week is in lower case. The programme is purely BBC World News content. It even has the DOG in the corner! The air stewardess announced 'This is Omnia. And now the latest international news recorded especially for us from BBC World News Channel (yuk!!), this is BBC World News...' God knows why she said 'BBC World News Channel'!!
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How does Susan Osmon do BOTH Points West and News 24?
Well she only does BBC Points West during the week, so she is free at weekends, so they have her on overnight Sun. I don't know why, they could just have someone else like John Nicolson or Fergus Nicoll who are based in London!
Guess you didn't travel on the Heathrow Express then Rob. BBC World also provide a dedicated 5 minute programme for the train ride to and from Heathrow.
The bulletin you refer to from the N24 set is also carried by Virgin and many other airlines.
lol!! I know - I felt like that. I got up at 2.30am to Susan Osman, then got on the plane and thought - great, it might be someone like Anita, Lyse or Martine. I then notice that it was the BBC News ident without the BBC WORLD at the bottom and then though - Susan Osman!! What they do at the end of the bulletin (which isn't at the end of the real N24 one, its before the *.15 summary of the headlines) is that they play the BBC World Ident out, not the News one. I got a couple of funny looks as I was humming along to the World News one!! It was great, so the way going we had individual TVs, so I had all 3 on, and coming back we had one large screen at the front of the cabin, so clear and big that I could read the place names which whizz round on the news ident!
To answer your questions harshy, yes it was from the BBC World studio. I would love to have this ident, but we are less likely to get this than Spotlight Channel Islands! For that we have James Ison and his whizzing aeriel on a tropical weather day!! And yes, News Week is in lower case. The programme is purely BBC World News content. It even has the DOG in the corner! The air stewardess announced 'This is Omnia. And now the latest international news recorded especially for us from BBC World News Channel (yuk!!), this is BBC World News...' God knows why she said 'BBC World News Channel'!!
Thanks for answering the question itsrobert!
It makes you wonder if there are any other BBC News productions which aren't available, unless you travel on a train or aeroplane!
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On BA BBC News is provided at various times on the multi-channel video experience in Business & first class. There's BBC News Week & the BBC News programme recorded (in my experience nearly 20 hours early!). I had difficulty reading the Beeb's astons though because they aren't solid colours & don't come out clearly on small LCD screens. BA also show Harry Enfield's Sky One Show (more people have probably seen it on BA then saw it on Sky when it was shown!). There's also 5 video channels (in my experience I started watching The Dish & then the video system was cut out because the plane was landing - thus missing the end of it!)
Other programmes include West Wing on the drama channel. Davina McCall's soap & Fraiser on the comedy channel & there's a sort of documentary channel also!
