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Wait until the headlines about presenters working for only a brief amount onscreen each day start. Totally unjustified because of how much work happens when not live on air but it could well spook the BBC into making more cuts.

I would agree that it would make more sense to use the News at One and Weekend Lunchtime presenters and gallery teams to produce at least several hours of separated coverage, but we are basically returning to the network set-up that existed prior to 2006 and what exists on ITV. Even if there are critical headlines, I doubt they'd be able to gain any traction because of this.

I also don't think you need to worry about cuts to network bulletins. Their budget has been ringfenced (and at times given extra investment) throughout the whole cuts process. Indeed, weekend bulletins have seen their total running time increase by roughly 20/25 minutes in the last 15 years. I think we can sometimes forget that network bulletins exist on a whole other plane to the News channel - the average BBC One bulletin's viewing figures are roughly two orders of magnitude greater than the average BBC News channel hour's viewing figures!