23-12-2022, 02:38 PM
(23-12-2022, 01:42 PM)News76 Wrote:(23-12-2022, 01:18 PM)Radio_man Wrote: Even if there are no BBC 1 bulletins on the NC over the next 11 days, you can still see BBC 1 bulletins over on..........BBC 1Not good enough for news channel viewers who want a proper choice between NC and world.
Simulcasting the same program on BBC 1 and the NC is the opposite of choice for UK viewers. Want to see a domestic bulletin? - watch BBC 1. Want to see a joint World & UK bulletin, or rolling coverage of a developing story - watch the NC.
Simulcasting BBC 1 bulletins on the NC is a throwback to 2006/07 when BBC News managers had the idea that BBC 1 bulletins would eventually become a 'drop-in' to the NC. Simulcasts of course then became a necessity from 2008 when the NC and BBC 1 bulletins moved into the same studio.
But these ideas have long since been dropped and now we're going down the route of the NC and World becoming a single service and BBC 1 bulletins staying separate, with the 6 & 10 going back to having their own studio, to me it makes more sense to NOT simulcast BBC 1 bulletins on the NC, especially when they are not at standard times of 1pm, 6pm and 10pm and so disrupt the usual NC hourly schedule.