[woodnorton]

Are all the junctions now badly automated? At 8:59 Naga did a time check, Breakfast played it's bumper, and then continued with the next story, and News showed that, crashing into sustaining stream at 9:00 mid story. Whatever caused it it just show how little is cared, or how few people are left, or both.

[harshy]

They got Celia Hatton in the newsroom and it’s being shot in what must be a mobile phone camera and all filmic.

[Moz]

This just isn’t acceptable…

youtu.be 

[Frances]

Something I’ve wanted to ask for a long time…

Why does the World feed (and previously BBC World News) always have some ‘overlap‘ issues before and after a break?

Same as the 1, 6, 10 on the discontinued BBC One HD - they always repeat the last half second of the bulletin before going to the red screen.

[Keith]

Not that anyone’s interested but I’ve 95% tuned out. Can’t muster the energy to write a page on my thoughts because I really can’t gather them all.

As a stalwart of these forums I am totally dismayed at what’s happened and I simply don’t care. BBC News has lost its way and it’s a tragic state of affairs.

Tim Davie and his army are to blame, NOT the Tory pressure. It’s an abomination what’s happened.

They’ve f**ked it up and they knew it was coming all along.

The issue is the cuts to the BBC's funding over the last decade and the current freeze in the licence fee is why there's now a unified BBC News channel. You can't separate one from the other.

Yes, you can argue there are other courses of action that could/should have been taken to either ensure separate domestic and international channels still existed or even different formats for the unified channel. However, what has happened hasn't occured in isolation just because.

I think the following stats explain how we got to the current situation fairly well.
- (Colour) Licence fee in 2010: £145.50
- Inflation adjusted 2010 fee today: £207.38 (according to Bank of England calculator, rounded down to £145.)
- Current (colour) licence fee: £159
- Difference: 26% (rounded to nearest whole number)

[Radio_man]

The issue is the cuts to the BBC's funding over the last decade and the current freeze in the licence fee is why there's now a unified BBC News channel. You can't separate one from the other.

Yes, you can argue there are other courses of action that could/should have been taken to either ensure separate domestic and international channels still existed or even different formats for the unified channel. However, what has happened hasn't occured in isolation just because.

I think the following stats explain how we got to the current situation fairly well.
- (Colour) Licence fee in 2010: £145.50
- Inflation adjusted 2010 fee today: £207.38 (according to Bank of England calculator, rounded down to £145.)
- Current (colour) licence fee: £159
- Difference: 26% (rounded to nearest whole number)

So whilst the license fee has only risen by £13.50 in 13 years, not only are the BBC's budgets impacted by the massive real terms cuts of that tiny rise, the BBC must also now fund:
Free TV licenses for over 75s, and funding of the BBC World Service, that it was not responsible for funding from the license fee in 2010. Money from the license fee has also been taken to support the digital TV switchover and broadband rollout since 2010.
So the BBC has had its funding cut whilst at the same time it has been made responsible for funding more services from a smaller funding pot. These are government decisions.

So it's easy to bash the BBC management for the closure of the UK News Channel, but it would not have happened if the BBC had not been cut to the bone for 13 years by consecutive Conservative governments.

Anyone who is upset and angry by what the BBC has become needs to seriously consider which political party they vote for next year, as the party currently in charge has made no attempt to hide the fact that if it wins the next election, the license fee will be abolished altogether.
(It's no coincidence that BBC News 24 / News Channel and the BBC in general, was at its best and most well resourced between 1997 - 2010)

[Robinho02]

Just turned on Nicky Campbell’s show on 5 live. The phone in since 10am is on ‘the ick’ - the things in a relationship where you know it’s not going to work… guests are a matchmaker and a relationship coach.

Coming soon to “BBC News”

[Roger Darthwell]

Just turned on Nicky Campbell’s show on 5 live. The phone in since 10am is on ‘the ick’ - the things in a relationship where you know it’s not going to work… guests are a matchmaker and a relationship coach.

Coming soon to “BBC News”

When I hear stuff like this I do sometimes wonder if BBC Radio 5 Live is still a news radio station.......or it has never been one?

[cable]

Bringing back Mr Blobby and him trashing the studio would be better.

[Andrew]

Just turned on Nicky Campbell’s show on 5 live. The phone in since 10am is on ‘the ick’ - the things in a relationship where you know it’s not going to work… guests are a matchmaker and a relationship coach.

Coming soon to “BBC News”

And many here thought Victoria Derbyshire and her ‘films’ would be a low point to morning BBC News

Presumably they will have to ensure all the topics are News worthy once it starts being simulcast