[Kojak]

The way things are going, it's like the BBC is a local cable news outfit. Not a national broadcaster. Reduced to absolutely nothing.

£5 billion pounds of income,  £3+billion from UK household taxation.

The BBC hasn't been reduced to absolutely nothing by anybody.  It's CHOSEN to spend money on little used podcasts, identikit online content and lower skill online journalism instead of crafted Broadcasting

I didn't understand why the Beeb made a big deal of bringing back BBC Three, then a couple of months later announced 'hey, we're gonna axe BBC4, CBBC and the News Channel'. What they giveth with one hand, they taketh away with the other. I know, in reality, there's much more to it than that, but it just looked so boneheaded. If I were DG, I'd like to think the News Channel would have stayed, with cuts being made elsewhere. It's an important public service, and if anyone should provide a 24-hour news channel, it should be the BBC. Though I get why things have turned out as they have. The presentational changes (if not necessarily the editorial ones) to the new combined channel mostly sound good, and I am glad that there seems to be some innovation going on (something of a rarity chez Beeb!). Good luck to them - they will need it.