BBC boosts business news coverage

LONDON - The BBC is launching a daily business programme called Business Today, on its digital TV news channel BBC News 24, in June.

The programme is an effort to ramp up the BBC's business coverage. The BBC's director general Greg Dyke has criticised the corporation's business coverage, and in November appointed Jeff Randall, former editor of Sunday Business, as its first business editor.

Business Today will air Monday to Friday at 8.30pm, presented by former The Money Programme presenter Nils Blythe.