[Kojak]

I just can’t get my head around posters here thinking that something should continue to be funded at levels that don’t reflect its value. The fact is that people consume news differently to how they did 15 years ago. I really think it needs to be understood that the fondness (for want of a better word) that some have here for the news channel is massively out of step with the wider public, and focusing its resources in the right places (app, online, social media, podcasts) is 100% the right thing for the BBC to do.

They could plough millions into the news channel, it still wouldn’t change habits which are increasingly moving away from linear channels for news consumption.

Never thought I’d be quoting Hairspray here, but “you can fight it, or you can rock out to it.” In other words - embrace where things are going rather than trying to cling onto where they were.

It’s an important public service, and one which, in an ideal world, the BBC wouldn’t be ceding to the private sector. If anyone should be providing a UK news channel, it should be the national broadcaster. That’s not to put down Sky, because they do an excellent job. It’s just a shame that the Beeb’s funding has been cut to the extent that they can no longer provide such a service. 

Alas, though, if there must be a news channel cut, it should be the News Channel. We have the network bulletins, radio and so forth. The rest of the world doesn’t. Again, I definitely don’t agree with the idea of it closing, but it seems to me the least worst (and emphasis on worst) option.