07-01-2023, 06:05 PM
News 24 was definitely planned before Diana died. If not, two months would've been a hell of a turnaround for starting a channel.
I think you could get rid of the News channel without much problem - it's very few people's favourite BBC service and pretty much everything it does is done by another BBC service, so you aren't losing anything outright if it disappeared. It was a nice to have luxury and the BBC would survive without it.
But replacing it with the new channel will be fine for most viewers - the kinds of breaking stories that lead to peaks in BBC News' audience will also be covered on the new channel.
I think you could get rid of the News channel without much problem - it's very few people's favourite BBC service and pretty much everything it does is done by another BBC service, so you aren't losing anything outright if it disappeared. It was a nice to have luxury and the BBC would survive without it.
But replacing it with the new channel will be fine for most viewers - the kinds of breaking stories that lead to peaks in BBC News' audience will also be covered on the new channel.