Global (TV programme)

Global
Final title card, used from 2022 to 2023.
Also known asGlobal with Jon Sopel
(January 2013 - July 2014)
Global with
Matthew Amroliwala
(Sept. 2014 - 3 March 2023)
Created byBBC World News
Presented byMatthew Amroliwala
Tim Willcox
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Original languageEnglish
Production
Production locationsStudio C, Broadcasting House, London
Running time2 hours
Original release
NetworkBBC World News
Release14 January 2013 (2013-01-14) –
3 March 2023 (2023-03-03)
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Global, styled also as Global with Matthew Amroliwala (as of 8 September 2014), is a news programme on BBC World News that premiered on 14 January 2013 with the relaunch of the channel from Broadcasting House.[1] The programme was hosted initially by Jon Sopel who joined the channel from the domestic BBC News channel. Sopel regularly presented the programme on location around the world and in this case it is broadcast in part on the BBC News channel. Sopel was promoted to North America Editor in 2014, and was succeeded in September by Matthew Amroliwala.

Global replaced The Hub, which originally was an edition of World News Today and served as a news 'nerve centre' for South Asia and the Middle East, providing both the headlines, and detailed analysis of the global news agenda.

As part of BBC's plan to merge its domestic BBC News channel in the UK and BBC World News in early 2023, Global was one of the programmes which was cancelled.[2] The final episode aired on 3 March 2023 at 18:00 GMT on the then BBC World News.

The programme is spiritually replaced by Verified Live, which aims at fact-checking of news based on confirmed facts and sources. It debuted on 22 May 2023.

  1. ^ "BBC World News launches new studios, new programming and new presenters". BBC. 8 January 2013. Archived from the original on 16 March 2013. Retrieved 6 April 2013.
  2. ^ Manning, Mike. 2023. "Joint UK/international BBC News service from March." Accessed 18 April 2023. https://cleanfeed.thetvroom.com/17007/news/joint-uk-international-bbc-news-service-from-march/