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World Briefing

BBC news programme

Summary

BBC news programme

FieldValue
show_nameWorld Briefing
formatNews, current events, and factual
runtimeWeekdays for half hour at 0100, 1000, 1400, 1500, 1800, 2100, 2200, 2300 (GMT) (as at Spring 2011)
countryUnited Kingdom
languageEnglish
home_stationBBC World Service
record_locationBroadcasting House
first_aired2 January 2001
last_aired31 March 2013
num_series12
num_episodes13,000+
websitehttps://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p002vsnc

World Briefing is BBC World Service's longtime news strand. It has broadcast roughly more than 13,000 unique episodes. Along with The World Today, Newshour, World Update and World: Have Your Say, it covered a large part of the schedule (four hours each weekday). It was broadcast on the hour as a half-hour programme whenever other news strands were not on air. Each individual version of the BBC World Service opted in or out of various editions. Public radio stations around the world also broadcast various editions of World Briefing.

On 25 March 2013, BBC World Service announced that World Briefing would be cancelled and replaced by The Newsroom. The Newsroom first aired on 1 April 2013 at 11am GMT. Unlike World Briefing, The Newsroom airs daily on a less frequent basis (only up to six times per day).

Presenters

The presenters were:

  • David Bamford
  • Oliver Conway
  • Frederick Dove
  • Jackie Leonard
  • Andrew Peach
  • Valerie Sanderson
  • Maddy Savage
  • Doreen Walton

References

Wikipedia Source

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