[Kojak]

Gary Lineker on world news this is a joke hopefully next month the UK opt or whatever it is kicks in, even if it comes from a broom cupboard so be it.

All roads point to Tim Davie. This is entirely his doing and you are spot on - it is a complete joke!

How on earth this merger will work is truly mind bending. People outside of the UK give diddly squat about Gary Linekar and have no idea what Final Score of Football Focus us. 

It simply will not work.

I think the only way it could have worked is for it to be a proper world news channel. That wouldn’t necessarily be great for us in the UK but it would be very much the least worst option. At least we have the network bulletins, the website, BBC radio for domestic news. The rest of the world… doesn’t - so it’s only fair that the news channel focuses on them. Keep the 1, 6 and 10 simulcasts if they must (but with sign language!) and let the rest of it be like BBC World of old.