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''BBC World News America'' is a British/American
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division, which premiered on October 1, 2007. Produced out of the BBC's Washington, D.C. bureau, Laura Trevelyan is the main presenter. Katty Kay – who originally appeared on the program through her role as a Washington-based correspondent for BBC News – served as the main presenter from 2011 to 2021, replacing original co-anchor
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. The program is broadcast worldwide on
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and, through an agreement with Washington's PBS member station,
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, is syndicated to PBS member stations and select
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independent stations throughout the United States. Until June 2019,
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handled this distribution. From its debut until March 25, 2011, the program was one-hour long, airing as a simulcast on BBC America in the United States and BBC World News internationally, with the first half-hour (on tape delay) being shown overnights on the BBC News Channel in the United Kingdom. The program was reduced to a half-hour broadcast on March 28, 2011, and was removed from BBC America. On October 31, 2016, the program returned to the BBC News Channel after a five-year absence, and currently airs on the channel at 21:30 GMT for one week in November and one or two weeks in March between when the clocks change in the UK and the US. From June 11June 2018
''BBC World News America''. to July 26, 2018 Monday – Thursday, when BST was in effect, the first half-hour edition was temporarily broadcast for viewers around the world except in North and South America. Then from August 2018, the usual full-hour edition resumed global distribution.


Special broadcasts

In some instances, the program had been cut off on its hour broadcast to a few snippets for
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events (e.g.:
2007 Karachi bombing The Karsaz bombing attack occurred on 18 October 2007 in Karachi, Pakistan; it was an attack on a motorcade carrying former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto. The bombing occurred two months before she was assassinated. The bombing resulted in at ...
). In the case of the 2008 US Election primaries & caucus, the program was extended to 3 hours (e.g.: 2008 Iowa Caucus) and even up to 6 hours (e.g.: 2008 Super Tuesday) and was only presented by one host. BBC World News America also covered the three presidential and the only vice-presidential debates.


Presenters


Former presenters

* Katty Kay (Main presenter, 2011–2021)"Katty Kay Named Anchor of 'BBC World News America'"
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(Main presenter, 2007–12) *
Philippa Thomas Philippa Thomas (born 22 November 1965) is a television newsreader and journalist, both domestic and foreign, at the BBC and a chief news presenter at BBC World News, presenting evening bulletins on BBC News Channel and BBC World News. She is ...
(Relief presenter, 2007–2009) *Rajini Vaidyanathan (Relief presenter) *
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(Relief presenter, 2020-2021)


Awards

''BBC World News America'' has won several
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. It won one in 2007 for ''White Horse Village.'' In 2010, ''BBC World News America'' was a recipient of two 69th Annual Peabody Awards. One award was given to the program, calling it a "Unique Broadcast, Unique Perspective", which was described as "A nightly newscast like none the United States has ever had, it places our actions and concerns in a global context." The second award was for the report ''Where Giving Life is a Death Sentence''. The program won another Peabody Award in 2014 "for dedicating the necessary resources and risking their lives to give the world an up-close look at the horrors of the Syrian conflict" in ''Inside Syria's War.''73rd Annual Peabody Awards
May 2014.


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