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Yes, I think so as they clearly aren’t willing to think creatively to do a proper hybrid service (which, as has been said, is still possible but now doesn’t look likely to emerge from the current mess).

If that’s what they do eventually do, they ought to keep the BBC World News name and call it that. The TV compliment to BBC World Service.

As the last week has demonstrated though, when push comes to shove, the BBC will shaft the financially necessary international market in favour of bowing to the political pressure associated with the domestic market. If they aren't willing to organise a proper hybrid service with a reasonable editorial balance, it'll be a global BBC News channel rather than a domestically available BBC World News that emerges from the merger.

Of course, this will inevitably lead to another issue when it alienates World viewers and screws up the advertising revenue (only needs a fall of <10% to go into the red), which will in turn require further cuts and lead to the DCMS committee asking why the licence fee is subsidising a loss-making enterprise. But, as BBC management seem unable to strategically think a day ahead at the minute, I suspect they are taking the battles as they come.