Sunday, March 02, 2008

International Observations

Looks like Shihab Rattansi has left CNN/I. He's still listed on .com, but that normally doesn't mean much.

Andrew Stevens has been co-presenting Your World Today this week from Atlanta.

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Sunday, June 24, 2007

History repeating

Looks like Sunday morning is a good time to spot glaring mistakes on CNN/I!

At 1039 gmt, the rerun of World Sport came out of a break. However, instead of World Sport, we came right in the middle of a weather report from Martyn Jeanes. This was followed by Shihab Rattansi ending World News! This was the end of this morning's 0800 to 0830 gmt edition of World News, somehow being rebroadcast!

When World News ended, again(!), World Sport continued abruptly, in progress.

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Chemical Ali sentence coverage

At 0849 gmt this morning, CNN/I broke into the live edition of World Sport, with Candy Reid in Atlanta, to bring breaking news coverage of the sentence of Saddam Hussein's cousin Ali Hassan al-Majid, "Chemical Ali", for his role in the death of Iraqi Kurds in Anfal in the late 80s.

Rather than Shihab Rattansi bring this breaking news from CNN Center, Hala Gorani did so live from Baghdad. (This allowed World Sport to continue off-air, for the rebroadcasts later today). Hala spoke to several people on the phone with archive footage of the attacks and the aftermath shown on-screen. Delayed footage of the trial in Baghdad was also shown.

Coverage broke off for a break at 0857 gmt, and at 0900 gmt Shihab Rattansi returned at CNN Center and together with Hala Gorani in Baghdad, breaking news coverage continued.
Larry King Replay started at 0907 gmt in progress.

(As an aside...I always assumed that the airing of Larry King at 0900 gmt was a recording CNN/I had made, and then played out. But I've recently realised that Larry King Live is also rebroadcast on CNN/US at the same time. So, technically, I wonder if CNN/I actually cuts to CNN/US for this?)

CNN/I cut into Larry King at 0925 gmt to bring further breaking news coverage of the Chemical Ali sentencing. Due to the delay of the courtroom video footage, there was no footage of Ali receiving his sentence until now, and this was aired while Shihab spoke to Hala in Baghdad.

Larry King resumed at 0930 gmt

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Sunday, June 10, 2007

Bush in Albania coverage

President Bush continues his tour of Europe, and CNN/I continues its coverage.

At 1040 gmt, CNN/I came out of the World Sport re-run and Shihab Rattansi in Atlanta took us live to Tirana where President Bush was just starting a press conference with the Albanian Prime Minister. Shihab had been trailing this on World News in the hours leading up to the conference, but it appeared to start 10 minutes earlier than expected.

At 1110 gmt, coverage ended and Rosemary Church was now at the anchor desk in Atlanta, and continued with World News as scheduled.

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Saturday, June 09, 2007

Bush in Italy coverage

At 0900 gmt, CNN/I came out of the commercial break and into a "Live Event". Shihab Rattansi at CNN Center welcomed viewers of "CNN USA" as we saw live pictures from Vatican City, as President Bush was due to meet Pope Benedict XVI for the first time. Ed Henry was live in Rome talking to Shihab.

The replay of Larry King Live continued in progress at 0915 gmt on both CNN/I and CNN/US.

Later, at 1348 gmt, Rosemary Church in the Atlanta studio interrupted World Report to bring a "Live Event", a news conference with President Bush and Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi in Rome.

This continued until around 1420 gmt, where we then joined "We Were Warned: Out Of Gas" in progress.

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