07-01-2023, 06:09 PM
(07-01-2023, 05:42 PM)Jimbo2022 Wrote: The BBC never had a news channel in UK before 1997. World started when they split world service television into BBC world and BBC prime.
Only when Princess Diana died - 8 and a half years after Sjy News started - did the BBC even consider doing a bewjs channel.
The BBC were never told to start a news channel as far as I know. World Service radio existed since 1932 but it took them 60 years to start a news TV channel
Given we used nit to have a BBC news channel could they get away with just closing it altogether?
It must have been planned before Princess Diana died. It launched two and bit months after her death. Surely they couldn’t have arranged it all that quick.