itsrobert post_id=65683 time= user_id=913 Wrote:I've managed to find some BBC World Service TV schedules from 1994 on a Finnish website. Here's an example and I have deducted 2 hours to account for Finnish time: https://www.hs.fi/kotimaa/art-2000003358698.html

18th August 1994:

5.00 BBC World Service News
5.25 Naturewatch
6.00 BBC Business Breakfast
7.00 BBC Breakfast News from London
9.05 Rough guide to the Americas
10.00 BBC News from London and Weather
10.05 Playdays
10.25 Why don't you
10.50 Cricket
12.00 BBC News from London and World Weather
12.05 Summer in the city
12.55 World Weather
13.00 BBC World Service News and World Weather
13.30 One foot in the past
14.00 BBC World Service News and World Weather
14.30 Cricket
16.35 Melvin and Maureen's Music-a-grams
16.50 Get your own back
17.05 Record breakers
17.30 Going for gold
17.55 World Weather
18.00 BBC News from London and World Weather
18.30 Open space
19.00 Here and now
19.30 Eastenders
20.00 Commonwealth games preview
20.30 Crime limited
21.00 The Real McCoy
21.30 Ways of seeing
22.00 BBC World Service News and World Weather
22.30 World Business Report
23.00 BBC World Service News
23.15 Cricket highlights
23.55 World weather
0.00 Commonwealth games opening ceremony
1.50 Worldview
2.00 BBC World Service News
2.25 World Business Report
3.00 BBC World Service News
3.25 Newsnight.
4.00 BBC World Service News
4.25 Top Gear

There are some other schedules from 1994 on the site but that gives you an indicative example.

It really shows how BBC World evolved into a rolling news channel quite slowly. As BBC World Service Television, it started out as a much more varied channel. I think I'm right in saying that it was in January 1995 that the channel was effectively split into two with the news and current affairs programming staying on BBC World and the other types of programmes moving over to the new BBC Prime.

itsrobert post_id=65683 time= user_id=913 Wrote:It really shows how BBC World evolved into a rolling news channel quite slowly. As BBC World Service Television, it started out as a much more varied channel. I think I'm right in saying that it was in January 1995 that the channel was effectively split into two with the news and current affairs programming staying on BBC World and the other types of programmes moving over to the new BBC Prime.

DTV post_id=65694 time= user_id=1056 Wrote:

itsrobert post_id=65683 time= user_id=913 Wrote:It really shows how BBC World evolved into a rolling news channel quite slowly. As BBC World Service Television, it started out as a much more varied channel. I think I'm right in saying that it was in January 1995 that the channel was effectively split into two with the news and current affairs programming staying on BBC World and the other types of programmes moving over to the new BBC Prime.

That's a great find.

I think I'm right in saying that there were really two BBC World Service Television channels - the European channel (above) that was basically a BBC1/2 hybrid with added news and an Asian channel that was more news heavy. BBC Prime (in its early years) stayed with the BBC WSTV Europe model - even including simulcasts with BBC World - until, as Deejay mentioned, becoming more UKTV-ish around 1998.

The evolution of the channel in terms of news is quite interesting. When it was just BBC TV Europe, it simulcasted Breakfast, the daytime summaries, the 3 main news bulletins and Newsnight. After the launch of WSTV, it dropped the Nine in favour of WSTV News at 2000 UKT and launch World Business Report after Newsnight. By early 1993, WSTV News is moved to 2200 - incorporating WBR at half past and a 15-minute bulletin at 2300. Then, clearly, they added more News with the October 1993 relaunch.

Roger Darthwell post_id=65695 time= user_id=1160 Wrote:This BBC TV Europe seemed a lot like a simulcast of BBC One in all but name

DTV post_id=65702 time= user_id=1056 Wrote:

Roger Darthwell post_id=65695 time= user_id=1160 Wrote:This BBC TV Europe seemed a lot like a simulcast of BBC One in all but name

It largely was. It generally simulcasted with BBC1 - including taking South East regional news - unless they couldn't for rights reasons.

Brekkie post_id=65452 time= user_id=976 Wrote:So quite a bit of generic half-hour programming like Top Gear and Holiday shown under the "Time Out" banner.

itsrobert post_id=65696 time= user_id=913 Wrote:I would love to find a schedule for the Asian version of WSTV. I wonder if they shared some of the same WSN bulletins with Europe but had extra ones of their own? I'm guessing that the Asian version also had Asia Today as part of its schedule. I'm pretty certain AT, like WBR, existed prior to BBC World.

Newsroom post_id=65709 time= user_id=1342 Wrote:Was the World studio CSO or real? Same question applies to the overnight coverage of BBC World on BBC `One when the Diana story unfolded. Maxine was clearly in the newsroom, Nick Gowing in the same position as that above.

I'm just curious as to what newsroom World was occupying having been there when the 9 and Summaries came from a real newsroom and as to where it was.

johnnyboy post_id=65661 time= user_id=925 Wrote:Dunno if this is of any help DTV but in late 95, I used to buy The Times occasionally partly to see the listings for BBC World and Prime.

They do have an archive but I don't know if TV listings from that time will form part of it.

Quote:BBC WORLD _

News, on toa hour.

8.15am Panaama 0X0 Naiue 10X0
Tomorrow's Work! 1.15pm The Money
Piogtamma 2.15 World Busttt&s Report
2X0 Navnhour Asa and PadflC 3X0 Travel
Shaw 4.15 Panorama 5X0 Him '96 8XS
Panorama 9X0 international Festhra/ of lf»
Sea 12.10am NewsnigN 4X5 Under tea
Sun 5X0 Newsday

Quote:BBC World

News on the hour

0815 Panorama, 0930 ???, 1030
Tomorrow's World, 1315 The Money
Programme, 1415 World Business Report,
1430 Newshour Asia and Pacific, 1530 Travel
Show, 1615 Panorama, 1730 Film '96, 2030
Panorama, 2130 International Festival of the
Sea?, 0010 Newsnight, 0435 Under the Sea
0530 Newsday.

DTV post_id=66892 time= user_id=1056 Wrote:From the various sources discovered in this thread, I've managed to piece together the history of News on BBC World Service Television (Europe).

Probably from launch, and certainly by September 1991, news included simulcasts of Breakfast News, the hourly daytime summaries, the One O'Clock News, the Nine O'Clock News and Newsnight. In addition, there was the exclusive BBC World News at 1900 UKT which was preceded by a 15-minute World Business Report.

In early October, World Business Report moved to after Newsnight. With the BBC World News moving to 2000 UKT and the Nine O'Clock News being dropped in favour of the Six O'Clock News at the end of the month.

From March to June 1992, closedown was replaced by an overnight simulcast of BBC WSTV Asia (which had News and Business every hour). This appears to have stopped in June with WBR extended to 30 minutes at the same time.

A big schedule change then occurred in October 1992. An additional 30-minute World Service News bulletin was added at 1400 UKT, the 2000 UKT edition was dropped and they stopped taking Newsnight live. Instead, the main evening World bulletin was moved to 2200 UKT - which was followed by WBR at 2225/30, another WSN bulletin at 2300 and a delayed Newsnight at 2325/30. This continued with 25-minute news bulletins every hour (or 15-minute News and 10-minute Asia Today), followed by recorded back-halfs (including two repeats of an edited Newsnight) until the start of Breakfast News. I presume this was a return to an overnight simulcast with WSTV Asia.

This is largely how it remained until the creation of BBC World in January 1995. The only further changes were the addition of Business Breakfast in January 1993, the disapperance of Asia Today in late-1993 (though they may just have stopped listing it separately) and the fact that, from around April 1994, the 1300 UKT slot irregularly alternates between 'BBC News from London' (One O'Clock News) and 'BBC World Service News'.