Crisis in Congo also won the 2009 Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award in the international television category.

Savidge became a special correspondent (Dhaliwal's former role) for the show and served as host occasionally on Worldfocus.

[5] Overall Worldfocus was very expensive to produce, and did not bring in the crucial viewer donations as BBC World News had reliably done for years before.

[7] WNET had planned Worldfocus to be the flagship program of an expensive new studio then under construction at Lincoln Center.

In April 2010 WNET started again airing BBC World News, the very program that Worldfocus had replaced in 2008.