[steve]

Good grief I can’t cope with the level of hyperbole here. The channel is one small part of the wider BBC News operation. They aren’t shutting the whole organisation down.

Absolutely this. Ask the vast majority of people about BBC television news and they will think about Breakfast, the 1, 6 and 10. That’s where the viewers are. 

And those bulletins (the 6 & 10) have had more investment and more attention than for a long time in the past year - a dedicated studio, giving a real injection of freshness to the presentation and setting them apart again as flagships. 

Breakfast will move into a new space in 2023 as well. 

So, yes, it’s never a good thing to be losing output and services degrading but at a time when there simply is much less money, it seems to me they’re investing in the right places - where the majority of viewers are.

I think after their exemplary handling of the death of QEII, for example, perceptions of BBC News as a brand among the general population are probably the strongest they’ve been for some time.