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I can't imagine it won't have one. It's something that's been expected on news channels since long before even tickers were, and the convenience and usefulness to viewers outweighs the slight delay on some platforms.

Speaking of the clock, it did disappear for about 15 minutes at around 09:15 this morning, there were a few problems with the news channel ticker for a little while.

You’d think BBC World would feature a clock with UTC time on it. Most of the time you only look at a clock for the minutes anyway and while there are some time zones with +/- 30 minutes this is rare.

There are also some 15/45 splits.

I have to say the cautious optimism I had earlier in the day has disappeared as it went on. Although Hockings' shift was fairly reasonably balanced (about 30-40% UK news during shared output and with key world news taking priority), the afternoon shifts have been far more skewed in favour of UK news - some have featured majority domestic news stories and the 17:00 hour was well into the 60-70% bracket of a typical unsimulcast BBC News channel hour, featuring only four non-UK stories (including just one in the back-half). It really did seem that they had forgotten they were going out internationally.

A real part of the problem seems to be pacing - some of the afternoon hours were interminably slow - the 17:00 hour featured just six stories in its first half, one of which was just in passing. This is something that has definitely got worse in recent years, but is something they really should look at - not least as fitting in more stories will allow more of the world to get covered, while allowing more UK stories in and meaning that the ones of dubious international relevance (which today included Raab's bullying allegations, northern train delays and fire services strike) stick out less. News in Brief segments - including maybe a UK in Brief and an Around the World in Brief segment - would really help out here (I only saw one today).

I presume you're talking from the POV of a domestic viewer wanting more domestic news. Glad you were satisfied. However there are international audiences now seeing stories they are uninterested in at the expense, presumably, of stories they were previously more interested in. They are not being as well served as they were last week. Such is the fudge of combining the channels. Remember, the World feed contains all important advertisers (who pay based on audience figures) to fund/subsidise the channel. Less satisfied audience = less viewers = less advertising revenue = more cutbacks.