[DTV]

The BBC do it with the One now where the network presenter stays on but why not for the Six and Ten? There's no real reason why the BBC One presenter can't stay on to finish off the back half hours at those times? You'd then end up squeezing out 3 full hours on UK-focussed news at relatively peak times.

The problem, though, is that they've merged the network and London studio teams for the Six and Ten, so it's no longer possible to have them stay on for a full hour without separating London off again. Though, of course, there's no reason that the presenter and gallery teams could not also produce other hours. And, as you suggest, there are clearly teams that could be utilised better. I guess the current exceptions around the One are due to it being perceived as the junior, straighter bulletin.

The old Ten O'Clock Newshour was always a bit of a weird mess, especially considering they did explictly market it as a whole hour programme. I guess they didn't want to keep the Ten presenter too long, but the back-half was not particularly strenuous - they did the BOTH headlines, introduced Sportsday, then did the quarter to headlines, introduced Business news, then finished with a short paper review before handing to the weather.

Though saying that, it might be good if perhaps whoever was down for each network bulletin did an hour of UK news before (say, 11-12, 3-4, 8-9?). Just an idea - I haven't really thought it through.

EDIT: I see Kojak has made similar points, though I think you could replace Politics Live with a two-hour politics-focussed BBC News from Westminster, have the One presenter do three-hours from B (with Sportsday covering BBC London), then have the Six and Ten presenters do an hour each. That way you have six-and-a-half extra hours all using existing teams.