19-02-2023, 11:56 PM
(19-02-2023, 11:37 PM)News76 Wrote: I'd say yes to that but make it up to Midnight making it 9:00am-midnight 7 days a weeks.Are you going to pay for this service yourself?
As DTV says, a reality check is needed here. The merger is happening because there's no more money left in the news budget. The pot is empty. The license fee has been frozen, and cut in real terms, for well over a decade.
The merger plans are a compromise to keep a linear TV news channel going for UK viewers. The other option is to close the BBC's UK linear TV news service completely, which I'm sure was considered.
But to think that by the end if the year, we'll get a 2012 level BBC News Channel again is living in a fantasy world.
If you feel so strongly about this, write to your MP, demanding that the license fee is significantly increased, and to complain about how the cuts of the last 10+ years have hollowed out BBC news.