[Kojak]

Also, I think other than Sir Trev, all of the main ITV News presenters appeared on the ITV News channel covering shifts, or back filling hours. 

Now, other than Huw Edwards presenting the 5, name which other 'network' faces would appear regularly on the News channel? Huw would present the 5 when he was rota'd to do the 10 - but yet when George, Sophie, Mishal and Fiona Bruce were down to do the 10, they never did the 5. Nothing against them, but it never seemed right and no explanation was ever given.

We hear the BBC need to make cutbacks and Tim Davie says about people getting 'value for money', there were really obvious areas of News channel/network (presenter) duplication which could've been addressed - especially when the output was coming from the same studio - long ago but weren't and now we're in an even worse situation.

The 5 was once branded BBC Five O’Clock News with Huw Edwards on EPG and website. I guess it’s because normally the 1700 hour was most-watched on NC so they made a programme for Huw?

I think it was a response to Sky's then-newly revamped Live at Five programme with Jeremy Thompson. That had its own branding and agenda ('five more reasons to watch Live at Five', anyone?) so presumably the Beeb thought 'anything you can do, we can do better' and brought Huw in at 5pm, branding that hour like one of the network bulletins.

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Wasn't Deborah Turness at ITV News when the 2005 revamp took place and the ITV News channel started sharing much more in the way of network staff/presenters? With her now at the helm of BBC News I'm quite surprised a similar strategy hasn't been adopted?

Strictly speaking, it was David Mannion in charge when that revamp took place. You may have a point about Turness, though I don't know how much is up to her and how much may be overruled by people at the very top (or even people below her doing things under her nose!).