[interestednovice]

Thinking aloud so don’t come after me with pitch forks! 

Someone was saying about making the news channel purely BBC world and remove the UK opt-out then if needed break into the BBC One or BBC two schedule. 

I was wondering the other day how much BBC Two daytime costs at the moment. Recently it’s been simulcast of the news channel, politics live in the morning and then loads of repeats in the afternoon. 

I wondered if there was any milage in replacing BBC two day time with news or 30mins rolling news bulletins. So top of the hour till half past you’d have a more rolling news type bulletin and then from half past to top of the hour a program or do an hour block.  You could still break for politics live. You wouldn’t need it between 1-2 due to BBC One having the network news. 

To me it would solve a few problems 
1) It would stop complaints about world having too much UK focused stories and the risk of advertisers pulling out and allows world to be a world news channel. 

2) uk viewers would still be receiving uk focused rolling news instead of an opt-out 

3) it would most likely satisfy Ofcom in relation to the amount of UK focuses new content 

4) it would provide BBC Two day times a purpose instead of what can often fill like filling during the day until the evening programming kicks in. Making it a news and politics service during the day time.  
 
I will flag again, I am just a viewer so no clue what these cost to run but it was something i had pondered and thought I would share.  I’m now coming to hide behind the table with you two from the other day!

I think the issue is, as you’ve already alluded to, BBC Two itself has almost no budget at all.

Could they really afford “extended” opts on BBC Two (paid for by BBC Two), when the previous status quo was already that the NC and BBC Two both made a shared budgetary contribution to the morning NC hours - and they obviously couldn’t afford that, hence the merger.

The proposed opts seem to be more “drop in and out” rather than full scheduled bulletins, which editorially might not be seen as acceptable on BBC Two.

All of that said, personally I’d prefer your suggestion to the current proposals though.