[Radio_man]

I expect there'll be zero acknowledgement of the final 'News 24' hour on Friday on air but what would be lovely (though it won't happen) is if the final hour was double headed by Matthew and Jane. Nothing said, just a little marker of the significance as a treat for those who realise what's happening. Perhaps the cameras going rogue for good measure. 

But in reality I'm sure it'll be a dull non-remarkable final hour.

Maybe the presenter will close the 5pm hour on Friday by saying "you've been watching the BBC news channel......."
But the problem with everyone saying the BBC should do a send off for the channel in the 5pm hour on Friday, is that as far as the BBC is concerned, the News Channel is not formally closing like ITV News did in 2005. It's just 'evolving' into a joint UK & World news channel. It'll even have the same name for UK viewers.

Global Radio have become experts at this over the last 15 years when rebranding and merging their radio stations. You gradually remove the station's identity and merge the music policy, bring in new straplines, then remove the local station name, but keep the original presenters right until the end, before merging the stations into one and bringing in the new presenters and station name (which with Global has been Heart or Capital). 

The same has happened with the NC and WN over the last year, in terms of schedules, programs and presenters, and editorial content (the music policy in this example) during joint hours. The joint hours have gradually increased. All that's left to do now, which will happen from 6 March, is to introduce the daytime World News presenters to UK viewers (from the main UK studio).