[DTV]

Isn’t that what bbc world news did back in 1991 starting with Uk news then drifting off off to foreign news ?

When BBC WSTV Europe launched in March 1991, most of its news output were simulcasts of network bulletins (initially Breakfast News, the One, the Nine and Newsnight), but there was an internationally focussed BBC World Service News bulletin at 19:00 (which was preceded by World Business Report). BBC WSTV Asia, which launched in October 1991 and is the real basis of BBC World, was much more internationally oriented from the start.

Of course, BBC World has always had a slightly greater lean towards UK news than would be truly objective, but its bespoke news content has always been based around international news. In more recent years, some of the evening simulcasts (Outside Source and Beyond 100 Days/The Context) have been much more open to including UK news, often as lead stories (sometimes when might not necessarily be justified). The 10:00 hour has been similarly, if not more so, in this vein and has long been my expectation of where the merged channel will end up. Even though it would be commercially justified, I just don't think the BBC actually have the balls to go full World News on the new channel.