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Yes, yet another sports show is coming to CNNI.

 

Starting next week, every Thursday at 12pm ET Pedro Pinto will host a live program dedicated to UEFA Champions League. I noticed Don Riddell saying something about it on World Sport, but CNN Asia Pacific has some more details here.

Just noticed him anchoring the headlines. I think I saw him reporting on a few occasions, but can't really remember what it was about.

Overall coverage looks very well organized so far. Pretty much all sides are covered and I see they're providing updates about other elections as well.

However, I do have one objection. Saw Nina dos Santos at the 'magic wall' in London and I think she might have misunderstood the Greek electoral system. At one point she started adding up the percentage points of potential coalition partners implying that any coalition below 50 percent of the votes can't form a government. In fact, in proportional representation systems it's quite possible that an absolute parliamentary majority is won with less than 50 percent of popular votes. In addition, Greek system has a special feature that gives the party with most votes extra 50 seats, making it all even more complicated when the results are not in and exit polls are pointing to an extremely close race.

But to repeat, the overall coverage looks pretty good so far.

I remember someone saying Amanpour was supposed to air on CNÑ. Is the show on and were there any significant schedule changes?

Yet another Marketplace spinoff, premiering October 13 at 2.45 pm ET. It will be hosted by Richard Quest, while Juliet Mann, a business consultant and "highly experienced reporter", will be Marketplace Europe's correspondent.

No weekend time slots announced yet, but I expect more live news to be the victim of this.

More details about the show here. First edition will feature an interview with European Commision President Jose Manuel Barroso.