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This taps into exactly what I've genuinely been wondering regarding the occasional ad-hoc UK opt-outs.

There clearly won't be a team (however small) sitting about for whole shifts just on the off-chance that UK breaking news happens, of course. So...

I wonder exactly what people and resources will be pulled into action for UK opt-outs, with no detriment to whatever they'd otherwise be doing, and how quickly they can be mobilised when the need arises.

Fundamentally, the details of the UK opt are scant - what the team consists of, how frequently they'll opt, the logistics of it, etc. hasn't been publicly fleshed out. My guess is that the team will, in addition to providing the breaking news opt, have other functions as well - possibly multi-media, possibly also contributing to the joint channel when not opted-out*. My reading of the most recent scraps of detail is that the opt will be more frequent than rare (which would ask why they can't provide an opt-out as norm, dropping it during major world stories) and there will certainly be occasions, such as election campaigns, when opt-outs are the norm.

With regard to the logistics, one of the more recent articles suggested that the team and studio will be based in the former Outside Source area - possibly suggesting a set-up similar to the daytime news summaries when they started out where presenter and production team sat next to each other on set. This would allow you to go on air pretty much as soon as possible.

* I have been thinking that it might be good to have the duty UK-opt presenter, when not opted-out, present an hourly UK news segment, in the vein of the old Business and Sport segments on the News channel.