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It's a longshot, but I wish they would change the streaming policy with the new channel to make it more accessible. In the US, BBC World News requires a cable subscription and is not available on YouTube like Sky News, Al Jazeera, and many others.

I may be wrong here, but I think this might be part of the original distribution deals with cable giants like Comcast and Verizon. US cable deals used to be quite exclusive, certainly in the past. I don’t know when the contracts were signed exactly, but there’s a good chance there’s a stipulation forbidding the BBC from offering the signal OTT in the US.

while it's not always on and perhaps that makes all the difference, isn't BBC World News sometimes used by PBS stations when they need filler content

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