BBC World News Press Releases

On 14 November, BBC World News will broadcast World Challenge Five Years On – a one-off programme to celebrate the competition’s fifth anniversary, looking back on the past five years of the World Challenge series.    

For the first time, BBC World News peaktime audience has overtaken CNN’s across Europe, in both morning and evening slots. The recent EMS survey, which monitors the media habits and attitudes of Europe's top earners and decision makers viewing BBC, shows that, in the morning slot from 6.00 am to 9.00 am, the average audience in that daypart viewing World News across Europe has risen by 24% year on year, from 51,000 to 63,000. CNN’s audience correspondingly has fallen year on year from 64,000 to 60,000.