''World Update'' was a radio programme that was
BBC World Service's morning news strand. Broadcast at 10:06
GMT
Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) is the mean solar time at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London, counted from midnight. At different times in the past, it has been calculated in different ways, including being calculated from noon; as a cons ...
, it was also carried by public radio stations across the United States. Between 2003 and 2020, the programme was presented by
Dan Damon. On 25 June 2012, ''World Update'' became the first English-language World Service programme to come from
Broadcasting House.
In January 2020, the BBC announced that it would be discontinuing ''World Update''.
Presenters
Current
Former
* American journalist Vicki Barker was the main presenter from 1997 to 2003.
See also
*
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
References
External links
*
{{DEFAULTSORT:World Update
BBC World Service programmes
BBC news radio programmes