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''The World Today'' is
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's high profile,
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-winning, early morning news and current affairs programme, which as of 27 March 2011 was broadcast from 3:00 to 8:30 (GMT) daily. It consisted of news bulletins on the hour and half hour, serious international interviews and in-depth reports of world news. The
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considered it to be one of their most important strands, as shown in 2011 when it was kept as one of four key outlets. It was announced on 27 June 2012 that both ''The World Today'' and ''Network Africa'' were to be axed, and from 23 July 2012 a new programme entitled '' Newsday'' would take their slot.
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History

''The World Today'' was launched on the
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World Service The BBC World Service is an international broadcasting, international broadcaster owned and operated by the BBC, with funding from the Government of the United Kingdom, British Government through the Foreign Secretary, Foreign Secretary's o ...
in 1999 as part of a shake-up of the news programming. In June 2012 the programme moved to Broadcasting House in central London.


Presenters

Due to the nature of ''The World Today'' many BBC personalities appeared on the programme. Core presenters included: * Ed Butler * Fergus Nicoll * Max Pearson * George Arney * Julian Keane * Komla Dumor * Tom Hagler * Roger Hearing * Pascale Harter * Jackie Leonard * Lawrence Pollard * Mark Whitaker * Sunita Nahar * Durdana Ansari


See also

*
BBC World Service The BBC World Service is an international broadcaster owned and operated by the BBC, with funding from the British Government through the Foreign Secretary's office. It is the world's largest external broadcaster in terms of reception a ...
, the home of ''The World Today'' *
BBC News BBC News is an operational business division of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs in the UK and around the world. The department is the world's largest broad ...
*
BBC World News BBC World News is an international English-language pay television network, operated under the ''BBC Global News Limited'' division of the BBC, which is a public corporation of the UK government's Department for Digital, Culture, Media and ...
, The BBC's International Television Station


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External links

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