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BBC to premiere an American newscast

By DAVID BAUDER, AP Television Writer Sun Sep 30, 12:17 PM ET
NEW YORK - They speak English at the BBC, but CBS News veteran Rome Hartman still faced a language barrier when he was hired to create a newscast specifically for American viewers.

Almost all of the TV terms he was accustomed to were different. The American anchorman is a "presenter" at the BBC. The producer works in a "gallery," not a control room. And a voiceover is known as an OOV — an acronym for "out of vision."

"I'm not so arrogant that I think the entire BBC should adopt my lingo," Hartman said, "but it does make my head hurt."

Nearly four months of planning bear fruit Monday when the hourlong "BBC World News America" debuts at 7 p.m. EDT on BBC America, a network available in about half of the nation's TV homes. Parts of the newscast will also be seen on PBS stations that regularly air news material from the British Broadcasting Corp.

The value of the BBC News in America is that we can see the news as others see it, and see world news without the now-standard "But how does this affect Britney Spears?" viewpoint present on all the US networks. But it remains to be seen if news "for Americans" means news that the BBC thinks is important worldwide but presented with an American accent, or if it's the BBC's attempt to emulate American news, with all its faults. If it's the former, it may become must-see TV. If it's the latter, who cares?