'BBC World News' to air from Detroit on Wednesday

[Bozita]

Source: Detroit News

Tuesday, April 21, 2009
'BBC World News' to air from Detroit on Wednesday
Mekeisha Madden Toby / Detroit News Television Writer


Britain's "BBC World News America" is coming to Detroit.

The nightly newscast will broadcast a special feature from the city on Wednesday when "BBC's" Matthew Price, who is traveling across the country to gauge the effects of the recession in different cities, makes a stop in our neck of the woods.

Price will examine why Detroit has been hit particularly hard by the economic downturn. The BBC correspondent will look at the effects of years of economic stagnation when he drives around the city with a 72-year-old taxi driver who was born in Detroit and witnessed the city go from boom to bust.

"BBC World News America" airs 7 p.m. weeknights on BBC America.

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Read more: http://www.detnews.com/article/20090421/ENT10/904210431/+BBC+World+News++to+air+from+Detroit+on+Wednesday

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Welcome to Detroit. Let me give you folks at the BBC a quick tip on your visit to our fair city. Do NOT rent a Toyota. If you visit the link below, you'll understand.

CBC News did their Detroit pieces early this month. The videos are at:
http://www.cbc.ca/national/blog/special_feature/hard_times_hard_choices/red_white_and_the_economic_blu.html


Monday, March 30
Detroit Blues
Mark Kelley heads to the Motor City of Detroit, Michigan, where nearly 40% of the downtown is abandoned in this once gleaming city.
(RUNS 6:57)

Detroit Dazzle
Peter Mansbridge takes a look at some of the architectural and artistic treasures of Detroit, symbols of the city's by-gone automotive sector success.
(RUNS 4:01)

Tuesday, March 31
The Pride of Windsor
Peter Mansbridge takes an historical look at the city of Windsor from the Ford Motor Company, and interviews journalist Alisa Priddle of The Detroit News who lives in the city of Windsor.
(RUNS 5:51)

Sharing the Pain
Our Windsor-based journalist Susan Pedler looks at the different industries given life through the Detroit/Windsor car industry, and how Windsor's health depends on a comeback in Detroit, too.
(RUNS 4:19)

Signs of Hope in Detroit
There are plenty of signs of desperate times in the United States as the recession there deepens. But it isn't all doom and gloom in Detroit. Mark Kelley also found some signs of hope.
(RUNS 6:58)

[gauguin57]

1. Off topic, but Detroit has a great airport!

Had a layover there last month on the way to and from Atlanta ... it's a really great airport ... better than Atlanta's in stores, restaurants and ambience.

And it has this ROCKIN' disco tunnel to walk through between concourses! Free music-and-light show!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgxiQIDq6zo

[Michigan-Arizona]

2. Yes, much nicer than our old one n/t

[Blue_Tires]

5. +1

[tomreedtoon]

3. So Britan is outsourcing its news to a third world nation?

Undoubtedly the low level work will be done by former auto company executives, and the broadcast will end twenty minutes early because their incompetence will throw it off the air. I understood the Beeb was cutting back, but this is ridiculous. And Britons will never be able to understand those awkward, corrupted, illiterate American accents.

[Anarcho-Socialist]

4. this broadcast is for US audiences on BBC America

Britons still get their own BBC News broadcasts.

[bigworld]

7. Actually, this is for the world audience

On their 24-hour BBC World News channel. BBC News 24 is the domestic (UK) version. BBC America carries BBC World's US-focused programme every day. But the rest of the world will see it as well.

[sarcasmo]

6. Kick and nom.