[Kojak]

The dominance of World in the merger is not really surprising - its difficult to sell a UK orientated channel to the international audience.

World News is sold by the commercial arm of the BBC, there's lots of advertising and carriage contracts reliant on it. Any merger was always going to benefit that channel over the UK one.

Well then we can kiss goodbye to BBC News as a channel until the BBC Three style u-turn in about five years time when they finally realize you cannot merge World and Domestic news on one channel news channel and everything has to be unravelled by which time all the talent will be gone.

I don't think there will be any such U-turn. I think, sadly, this is it for the channel formerly known as News 24. Maybe in a few years they may start to produce more separate output, if there is more money about, but I don't think it'll be anything like even what we have now.