Up until about 2 years ago, QMB used to start at 4pm ET then would go to CNN Today. They changed it to add The Lead to the schedule.
Wasn't that around the time they simulcasted the "Wolf" programme of all the US programmes - such an integral part of the CNN Domestic line-up that you'd often have on the same day Wolf appear on the Situation Room but not actually the show that includes his name.
Some regions got CNN Today around then - we in Europe weren't so lucky as we'd instead get repeats and World Sport bulletins galore (unless there was a massive demand for a several hours old 'State of America' repeat that I wasn't aware of).
I believe so. In the APAC region we would have CNN Today "Early Edition" which was half an hour, followed by World Sport, and then followed by 2 full hours of CNN Today (with 15 min sport bulletins each hour). I didn't realise it didn't air in Europe!
As I say we weren't so lucky. We'd get the back half-hour but rather than Early Edition we'd get an Amanpour repeat and instead of the first half hour of proper CNN Today we'd get a State of America repeat from several hours before.
There was a period too where the last half hour before AC360 was a repeat of the half-hour World Sport from a few hours before. So you'd have the following (UK time):
10pm - Amanpour repeat
10.30pm- World Sport
11pm -State of America repeat
11.30pm - CNN Today
11.45pm - World Sport
12am - CNN Today
12.30am - World Sport repeat
The whole thing was bizarre - rather than just actually air live news whether that be from Domestic or the CNNI programmes aired elsewhere, in EMEA they'd go out their way to not actually show news. It wasn't the best period for CNNI. I mean State of America once an evening was bad enough without giving us a repeat helping.
I may have criticism of the US simulcasts but at least it's actual live news.
Last edited by BFGArmy on 15 March 2021 10:52pm
