[interestednovice]

Having watched the 1 o’clock news today, I can’t see this programme being broadcast on the new international-focused channel, at least on the World feed.

So where will it broadcast from? We haven’t had any details on that or weekend bulletins, right?

I think it’s already on record, unofficially, that no domestic bulletins will appear on the merged channel for viewers outside the UK, excluding serious breaking news of the type where we have seen the bulletins on BBC World News in the past. 

Where easy and convenient to do so, the BBC will “slot in” some simulcasts with domestic bulletins on the UK-stream only. This allows BBC managers to claim they are providing a bespoke service for license fee payers. Breakfast, we already know, will be one of those occasions (as it already is now). We don’t know whether or not the 1 o’clock news will be: presumably either they will simulcast it and they will continue with the unofficial “newshour” segment beyond 1:30pm (as now) - allowing for a clean rejoin with the global feed at the 2pm top of the hour, or they will not broadcast it on the channel. If they don’t broadcast it, they will have to find somewhere else to put the signed version which is currently shown on the BBC News channel. I don’t think it would go down well if they shifted that to red button and online only. So I expect the former is more likely than the latter. It would also be an easy-win to utilise the One presenter for the rest of the hour to provide more UK-exclusive content.

Studio-wise, the 1 o’clock news will join the 6 and 10 in Studio B, and possibly short weekend updates may use Studio D in the future if they don’t want to fire-up B. This leaves E free for the new channel and C as a spare for cleaning/maintenance in E. C could also be used for a proper U.K. opt but it sounds as if the current plan is to use D (for extended broadcasts, like scheduled breakaways for coverage around a general election) or a clip studio (for breaking news).

That situation is widely suspected to be altered for the soft-launch, with the channel probably coming from an unchanged Studio C whilst Studio E is refurbished ahead of the “proper launch”. We don’t yet know if they will bother to revamp C as well, once E is done.