The World Today
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BBC World News is the standard news bulletin featuring the latest international news broadcast throughout most of the day on BBC World News. Some editions also feature brief business and sport reports as well. A brief weather report is given at the end of each broadcast.
Monday-Thursday:
0500-0800 - Naga Munchetty
or Komla Dumor
(alternate weeks)
0800-1200 - Geeta Guru-Murthy (Monday) / David Eades
(Tuesday-Thursday)
1300-1400 / 1600-1700 - Lucy Hockings
2200-2300 / 0000-0100 - Mike Embley
Friday:
0500-0800 - Martine Dennis
0800-1200 - David Eades
1300-1400 - Lucy Hockings
2000-2100 - Jamie Robertson
(There is only 1 edition of World News Today
on Fridays)
2200-2300 / 0000-0100 - Mike Embley
Weekends:
0100-0600 - Kasia Madera (Saturday) / Deborah Mackenzie
(Sunday)
0600-1200 - Martine Dennis
1200-1900 - Owen Thomas
(Saturday) / Karin Giannone
(Sunday)
1900-0100 - Peter Dobbie
and the BBC News Channel, and is simply branded as BBC News
(with the exception of 0500-0600 on weekdays). Commercials are not shown in the simulcast on the domestic channels. Instead, while international viewers take a commercial break, the presenters give a brief update on UK news. As of 13 June 2011 Newsday
has replaced the weekday 0100-0500 edition of the programme.
Schedule
(all times GMT)Monday-Thursday:
0500-0800 - Naga Munchetty
Naga Munchetty
Naga Munchetty is a British journalist and television presenter. She currently presents BBC World News at 0500GMT on weekday mornings on BBC News Channel and BBC World News and makes regular appearances on BBC Breakfast...
or Komla Dumor
Komla Dumor
Komla Dumor is a Ghanaian journalist. He was born in Accra, Ghana in 1972. Dumor is currently a television news presenter for the BBC's international news channel, BBC World, presenting BBC World News and Africa Business Report...
(alternate weeks)
0800-1200 - Geeta Guru-Murthy (Monday) / David Eades
David Eades
David Eades is a journalist and newsreader working for BBC News. He presents the news between 0800 - 1200 on BBC World News. He previously has been a Northern Ireland correspondent for the BBC, as well as Europe Correspondent and senior Sports News Correspondent.He has presented the evening slot on...
(Tuesday-Thursday)
1300-1400 / 1600-1700 - Lucy Hockings
Lucy Hockings
Lucy Hockings is a New Zealander who is working as a television journalist for BBC World News. She joined the network as producer in 1999, just before being promoted to senior producer in 2000, and worked on Asia Today and HARDtalk. Due to viewer complaints about the accent, she went to the Royal...
2200-2300 / 0000-0100 - Mike Embley
Mike Embley
Mike Embley is a presenter on BBC World News, an international news and current affairs television channel operated by the BBC....
Friday:
0500-0800 - Martine Dennis
Martine Dennis
Martine Dennis is an experienced and well known BBC news anchor. She has been one of the main news presenters of the BBC World News for many years. Ethnically black, she is currently the BBC World News main presenter in the slot 5:00 to 8:00 a.m.GMT on Friday, and 6:00 a.m...
0800-1200 - David Eades
David Eades
David Eades is a journalist and newsreader working for BBC News. He presents the news between 0800 - 1200 on BBC World News. He previously has been a Northern Ireland correspondent for the BBC, as well as Europe Correspondent and senior Sports News Correspondent.He has presented the evening slot on...
1300-1400 - Lucy Hockings
Lucy Hockings
Lucy Hockings is a New Zealander who is working as a television journalist for BBC World News. She joined the network as producer in 1999, just before being promoted to senior producer in 2000, and worked on Asia Today and HARDtalk. Due to viewer complaints about the accent, she went to the Royal...
2000-2100 - Jamie Robertson
Jamie Robertson
Jamie Robertson is a film score composer from England.Born in Essex Jamie studied music from a very young age. With a theatrical background from just 10 He grew up knowing his love of music was to aim for film, TV and Radio....
(There is only 1 edition of World News Today
World News Today
World News Today is a current affairs news programme produced by BBC News and presented by Zeinab Badawi. It was originally conceived as a morning television show aimed at American audiences, hosted by George Alagiah, but later expanded to six editions a day aimed at different markets...
on Fridays)
2200-2300 / 0000-0100 - Mike Embley
Mike Embley
Mike Embley is a presenter on BBC World News, an international news and current affairs television channel operated by the BBC....
Weekends:
0100-0600 - Kasia Madera (Saturday) / Deborah Mackenzie
Deborah Mackenzie
Deborah Mackenzie is one of four presenters who regularly present the overnight shift on the rolling 24 hour UK news service the BBC News Channel, which is also shown on BBC One and BBC World News during this time.-Education:...
(Sunday)
0600-1200 - Martine Dennis
Martine Dennis
Martine Dennis is an experienced and well known BBC news anchor. She has been one of the main news presenters of the BBC World News for many years. Ethnically black, she is currently the BBC World News main presenter in the slot 5:00 to 8:00 a.m.GMT on Friday, and 6:00 a.m...
1200-1900 - Owen Thomas
Owen Thomas
Owen Thomas may refer to:*Owen Thomas , UK radio and television reporter/presenter*Owen Thomas , lead singer in American rock band The Elms*Owen Thomas , former editor of Valleywag...
(Saturday) / Karin Giannone
Karin Giannone
Karin Giannone is a television newsreader working in the United Kingdom. She returned from maternity leave on February 6, 2010 and is the London-based main presenter of the weekend daytime coverage on BBC World News....
(Sunday)
1900-0100 - Peter Dobbie
Peter Dobbie
Peter Dobbie is a news presenter on the BBC's 24 hour international news channel, BBC World. Dobbie also presented news on BBC World's sister channel, BBC News 24 until April 2006, when he moved from his 10:30pm-1am late-evening slot, back to BBC World...
Simulcast in the UK
From 0100-0600 GMT the programme is shown in the UK on BBC OneBBC One
BBC One is the flagship television channel of the British Broadcasting Corporation in the United Kingdom. It was launched on 2 November 1936 as the BBC Television Service, and was the world's first regular television service with a high level of image resolution...
and the BBC News Channel, and is simply branded as BBC News
BBC News
BBC News is the department of the British Broadcasting Corporation responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs. The department is the world's largest broadcast news organisation and generates about 120 hours of radio and television output each day, as well as online...
(with the exception of 0500-0600 on weekdays). Commercials are not shown in the simulcast on the domestic channels. Instead, while international viewers take a commercial break, the presenters give a brief update on UK news. As of 13 June 2011 Newsday
Newsday (programme)
Newsday is a news programme on BBC World News that first premiered on 13 June 2011. The programme is co-hosted by Babita Sharma and Kasia Madera† in London with Rico Hizon and Sharanjit Leyl in Singapore...
has replaced the weekday 0100-0500 edition of the programme.