''Business Today'' is a television business news programme produced by
BBC News
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and shown on
BBC News Channel
The BBC News channel is a British free-to-air public broadcast television news channel owned and operated by the BBC. The channel is based at and broadcasts from Broadcasting House in the West End of London from which it is anchored during ...
and
BBC One
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on weekdays. Each edition lasts 25minutes. The 05:30 edition is also seen on
BBC One
BBC One is a British free-to-air public broadcast television channel owned and operated by the BBC. It is the corporation's oldest and flagship channel, and is known for broadcasting mainstream programming, which includes BBC News television b ...
and the 11:30 edition also airs on
BBC Two
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during their simulcasts of
BBC News Channel
The BBC News channel is a British free-to-air public broadcast television news channel owned and operated by the BBC. The channel is based at and broadcasts from Broadcasting House in the West End of London from which it is anchored during ...
. The main presenters of the programme are
Sally Bundock, Ben Thompson,
[ ] Michelle Fleury (New York) and Steve Lai (Singapore). Other business journalists act as relief presenters.
This show was introduced to replace ''
World Business Report''
and also
Asia Business Report that has been run for almost 20-30 years.
During the 14:30 segment the show is renamed ''Business Today - NYSE Opening Bell'', focussing on the
New York Stock Exchange
The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE, nicknamed "The Big Board") is an American stock exchange in the Financial District, Manhattan, Financial District of Lower Manhattan in New York City. It is the List of stock exchanges, largest stock excha ...
.
Programme details
Relief Presenters
London
*Vishala Sri-Pathma
*
Lukwesa Burak
Lukwesa Burak ( ; born ) is a news presenter and former weather presenter for BBC News in the UK. Previously, she worked for Al Jazeera English, Sky News and before that ''Africa Edition'' on eNCA (formerly known as ''eNews Channel''), based in ...
*
Samantha Simmonds
*
Tanya Beckett
Singapore
*
Mariko Oi
*Monica Miller
*Arunoday Mukharji
*Suranjana Tewari
New York
*Erin Delmore
References
External links
BBC Business Today
2024 British television series debuts
2020s British television series
BBC television news shows
BBC World News original programming
Business-related television series in the United Kingdom
British television news shows
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