EXCLUSIVE: BBC World News moves to new state-of-the-art newsroom from 14 January

BBC World News will relocate to Broadcasting House from its current home at BBC Television Centre on January 14th 2013. Broadcasting House was refurbished at a cost of £1 Billion with a new newsroom and several state-of-the-art news television studios being built.

The channel will feature a refreshed line-up of programmes and presenters, and will be investing heavily in additional newsgathering capacity around the world.

From 1pm WAT on Monday 14 January the channel will be broadcast from new state of the art High Definition studios in the BBC’s new London headquarters, the redeveloped Broadcasting House. BBC World News is the first English language channel to go live from the new building.

BBC World News journalists will be at the heart of ‘the world’s newsroom’ where the BBC’s UK and international journalism teams have come together to provide output across digital, radio and television and 27 different languages, reaching an audience of 239 million people around the world each week. Eventually, 6,000 people – more than a quarter of all BBC staff – will be based in Broadcasting House, one of the world’s largest broadcast complexes.

The channel will also debut new on air talent including Yalda Hakim, one of Australia’s brightest international journalists, who has joined the channel as a current affairs correspondent and presenter for a new weekly current affairs programme. BBC World News has also announced that long time BBC News presenter and reporter Jon Sopel is joining the channel to present Global with Jon Sopel, a new weekday international news programme.

Here is BBC World News’s brand-new programming line-up which will start from next Monday 14 January with West African times:

Newsday (1am, 2am, 3am)
HARDTalk with Stephen Sackur (5:30am, 10:30am, 3:30pm, 10:30pm)
GMT with George Alagiah (1pm)
Impact with Mishal Husain (2pm)
Global with Jon Sopel (4pm)
BBC Focus on Africa (6:30pm)
World News Today with Zeinab Badawi (8pm)
Business Edition with Tanya Beckett (10pm)
BBC World News America (12:30am)

We’ll have full comprehensive coverage of the new look from Monday, January 14th.

See some exclusive sneak preview below: