World Business Report

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Not to be confused with the radio programme of the same name made by BBC World Service .
The programme's titles since July 2006.
The programme's titles since July 2006.

World Business Report is a television business news programme produced by BBC News and shown daily on BBC World News and the BBC News channel.

The main edition, shown at 2230 UK Time, is anchored from both London and New York, with a presenter in each location. The programme also forms the second half of BBC World's flagship news bulletin The World Today shown at 0500 UK Time, simulcast on BBC World News and the BBC News channel, but also BBC One due to the latter simulcasting also with the channel at the time of transmission.

Since July 2006, the programme has also been part of World News Today, shown at 1200, 1600 & 1900 UK time - in a 10 minute version in the second half-hour. It received new programme titles to coincide with the launch of the new news programme presented by George Alagiah, Nik Gowing, Zeinab Badawi and Philipa Thomas and uses the same pool of presenters from main editions.

Presenters of the programme vary from day to day, but main presenters include:-

* - also a back-up news presenter on BBC World News.

This programme is in asocciation with Shell, however during The World Today, as it is simulcasted on BBC News and BBC One, sponsorship is not mentioned.


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